Author: Adam Lee

Read Part 2 here. To finish off Saturday night, atheist comedian Keith Lowell Jenson and journalist Ted Cox gave a demonstration of “ex-gay” conversion therapy. The quack idea undergirding this is that men are gay because they were deprived of love by their fathers, and experiencing real manly affection will cure them of their confused…

Read Part 1 here. On Saturday, the SSA conference was in full swing, with three simultaneous tracks of talks going on throughout the OSU student union. As Murphy’s Law predicts, the ones I wanted to see the most were inevitably scheduled at the same time as each other. But I still got to see some…

We’re more than half-done with the week, and I have more good news for your Wednesday night: Daylight Atheism, The Book is now available on Smashwords! With this expansion, we now support pretty much every e-reader format that isn’t Kindle: ePub, PDF, RTF, Palm, and more. Here’s the link: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/177306 As before, if you read…

We’ve survived fire and flood! The Reason Rally in March was a day of gusty cold and battering rain. This July 4 weekend we went to the opposite extreme, as secular students and atheist movers and shakers from all over the country converged on Columbus, Ohio for the 2012 Secular Student Alliance Leadership Conference. And…

This essay was previously published on AlterNet. In the summer of 2010, I saw him several times a week: a portly, dark-skinned gentleman, leaning against a pillar in Penn Station and holding out two fistfuls of pamphlets to the disinterested commuters. He wore glasses and earbuds connected to an MP3 player in his coat pocket,…

I’m home again, safe and sound. As I mentioned, this weekend I was in Columbus, Ohio at the 2012 Secular Student Alliance Leadership Conference, having a blast with some of my favorite bloggers, some amazing freethinking students, and many of the other people in the vanguard of the unstoppable juggernaut of secular awesome that is…

The big news this week is that the Large Hadron Collider, the massive particle accelerator at the European physics lab CERN, has apparently discovered the elusive and long-sought subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, which explains why other particles have mass. The hunt for the Higgs has consumed decades of effort by physicists all over…

We who fight against bigotry and for human rights do so because we believe that a more just, more peaceful, more compassionate society benefits everyone. Prejudice is irrational by definition, a blind and maddened serpent; you never know who it will strike at next, and the oppressors and the oppressed have changed places many times…

This post was originally written for the “Because I Am An Atheist” series at The Crommunist Manifesto. Thanks to Crommunist for the inspiration! Because I am an atheist, I don’t have to spend my energy justifying the unjustifiable. As I’ve written before, I can imagine how I could have been a religious person. A different…

Happy weekend, everybody! If you’re looking for something to read along with your Saturday morning coffee, I’ve got something that’s better than any newspaper: Daylight Atheism, The Book is now available on Amazon Kindle! Here’s the link: http://amzn.to/NgiFgR If you read it, please consider writing a review. Other e-book platforms, via Smashwords, will be ready…