{"id":4826,"date":"2011-09-09T08:43:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T12:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2011-09-09T08:43:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T12:43:35","slug":"american-cancer-society-suks-female-orgasms-are-fer-real-fox-news-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/09\/american-cancer-society-suks-female-orgasms-are-fer-real-fox-news-bites\/","title":{"rendered":"American Cancer Society Suks; Female Orgasms are Fer Real; Fox News Bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know these are three totally unconnected items but I wanted  to point you towards them quick before Huxley and I head off for the park:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hemant Mehta has an interesting piece on refusing funds from atheists (The Foundation Beyond Belief plus Todd Stiefel with significant matching funds to the tune of a possible quarter mil) because they are atheists.<\/p>\n<p>The story is very complicated and concerns the Relay for Life fund raising effort by the American Cancer Society, which has been criticized <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jafsica.com\/2010\/04\/26\/life-death-cancer\/\">here<\/a>.   You have to read the original post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2011\/09\/08\/why-are-they-rejecting-atheist-generosity\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. When you&#8217;ve finished reading it, you will probably think the same thing I do:  The American Cancer Society wants to avoid being associated with atheists, even atheists trying to hand them big huge wadges of dough.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I don&#8217;t care.  I think the American Cancer Society is a lousy fundraising tool and mostly makes money for itself.  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to read about Female Orgasms, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/09\/coming_to_terms_with_the_femal.php\">here<\/a>.  You will find valuable information that won&#8217;t improve your sex life but will help you understand the behavioral biology of it all.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>And then this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newshounds.us\/2011\/09\/08\/brian_kilmeade_attacks_troublemaking_atheists_while_pimping_christian_wtc_cross_movie.php\">Brian Kilmeade Attacks &#8220;Troublemaking&#8221; Atheists While Pimping Christian WTC Cross Movie<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In keeping with the meme of victimized conservative Christians, Fox &#8220;News&#8221; advanced, yesterday, the newest Fox defined and Fox developed &#8220;outrage&#8221; and &#8220;controversy.&#8221; Several weeks ago, alleged Fox &#8220;news&#8221; anchor Martha MacCallum introduced us to the issue of the so called &#8220;Ground Zero Cross,&#8221; which was formed by two broken crossbeams from the WTC. It was revered by 9-11 responders and consecrated by a Catholic priest. As a part of the narrative of 9-11, it is now in the public memorial site. A group of atheists have filed a suit based on First Amendment church\/state considerations. Fox is having none of this and yesterday, Megyn Kelly effectively promoted the cross and dissed the atheists. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know these are three totally unconnected items but I wanted to point you towards them quick before Huxley and I head off for the park:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1fQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}