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From Joe Zamecki, Texas State Director for American Atheists:

This is a peaceful demonstration to protest "The Response: A Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis," an event initiated, endorsed, and promoted by Texas Governor Rick Perry and the American Family Association.

For those who are not yet aware of the AFA's attitude on gays, please experience this: Fischer: Gays are Nazis (video). Read more about Protest Governor Perry→

Cody Barnes is a professional artist who lives in Birmingham, Alabama. He is currently doing a fund-raiser for American Atheists where 20% of the proceeds from atheist customers are donated to American Atheists. Cody's portraits are $200 for a charcoal, $350 for a sepia painting, and $500 and up for a full color oil painting. Cody will donate $40 to American Atheists for every charcoal, $70 for every sepia painting, and $100 for every full color oil painting.

As Cody said, "I'd like to work for other atheists for a change! I'm tired of working for Christian conservatives!" Read more about Sketches for Skeptics→

Read more about Rock Beyond Belief Festival at Fort Bragg, NC approved!→

FOX News readers on Facebook started going off after Blair Scott, Communications Director for American Atheists, appeared on America Live with Megyn Kelly. Blair reports that when he returned home from his local FOX station for the interview that his voice mail was full of messages and his inbox had almost 200 hateful messages. "I can always tell when someone from American Atheists is on FOX news, because my Inbox explodes with hate email," said Blair. Read more about FOX News Facebook Page on 9/11 Cross Generates Death Threats Against Atheists→

The Suit has been filed, the news has hit, and reactions are coming in. Now that everything has started in this unfortunate but necessary case, I thought I'd take a moment to reflect on some of the feedback we've gotten and the progress we have ALREADY made.

For the most part, the feedback is what we'd expected - religious people hate us, but seculars understand and support it. I am very pleased at the breadth of the secular support for this important suit, and as usual I don't care much about what the theists think. Read more about On the Cross Case→