Glass City Humanist
Did you know that the Center for Freethought Equality, the advocacy arm of the American Humanist Association has a PAC that endorses and donates to candidates that share our values? We talk to the PAC manager Ron Millar and find out more about how the Center for Freethought Equality works and how it can help to oppose the Christian Nationalists.
Kyle Herman is our guest. He was recently elected to the city council in Stow Ohio and has experience with politics at the national level. He’s also visited the middle east promoting democracy. He tells us why he moved back to Ohio, why he loves Ranked Choice Voting, and why he invited drag queens to march with him in the Stow 4th of July parade this year.
Nick Fish is our guest. He is the fourth president of American Atheists in its 60-year history. We discuss his journey to the organization, the strategic plan for the next 60 years, the current climate of religious freedom in the U.S., and how groups can collaborate to uphold secular values.
We explore the religious implications of Project 2025, a strategic initiative from the Heritage Foundation that outlines policies for a future conservative administration. We highlight the conflict between Project 2025’s conservative agenda and humanist principles.
We discuss our efforts to refresh and revise our group’s 10 Commitments Prize Wheel we use at our information booth then we look at President Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 election and how his selfless action relates to our humanist values, and finally we tell a little known story about Catholic Nuns teaching public school in rural Ohio in the 1960s and 1970s.
Episode 82: Fighting for Educational Transparency: Zach Parrish’s Journey We start with concerns surrounding politics, particularly Christian nationalism, in the United States. The focus is on the worrisome alignment between the Republican Party and Christian nationalists who wrongly believe that the US was founded as a Christian nation. We recommend two documentaries, “Bad Faith” and […]
Yes it’s July and we have a special announcement about our Winter Solstice event in December. Then we take a long look at Project 2025 a political agenda chock full of bigotry and Christian Nationalism that if implemented will end Democracy as we have known it and hurt many of our friends and loved ones.
Genetics can do good like develop cures for infectious diseases and it can be used for evil like justifying the Holocaust. In this episode we hear about two Humanists, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who helped us out of the COVID pandemic, who retired from government service almost two years ago, but still needs a security detail then we hear a segment of a lecture given by Adam Rutherford about the dark history of genetics that was used to justify the Holocaust.
Christian Nationalists have targeted public schools. They ban books and discrimnate against trans kids. LifeWise Academy a well funded evangelical group based in Columbus is trying to install their model religious class in all Ohio schools without being truthful or transparent about their activities. We talk to Molly Gaines and Zachary Parrish two parents who are fighting back with their group Parents Against LifeWise.
One of the basic benefits we enjoy as citizens of a democracy like the United States is our right to address grievances to our elected officials if we feel they are not making appropriate decisions. The I-475 Neighborhoods Coalition is made up of citizens wanting to stop a planned widening of the freeway in Toledo. We talk to the coordinator Peggy Daly-Masternak.