Posts by Janet Brazill

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national freethinkers group of atheists, agnostics and skeptics, has erected a billboard in Colorado Springs that delivers the simple, thought-provoking message, “Imagine No Religion.”

Religious ideas can have cruel consequences. Look what genital mutilation has done to generations of male Jews and to thousands of young girls sexually mutilated to satisfy tribal “morality.” If the religiously motivated Amendment 48 passes, one of its consequences will be the economic mutilation of many Colorado women.

While we here in Colorado are having to battle a proposal to grant "personhood" to a fertilized egg — a concept that would classify all abortions as murder (and many contraceptives, as well!) — on the other side of the pond "grown-ups" are addressing the abortion issue with much more maturity.
On April 16, the Parliamentary [...]