Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 5, 2013 Media Contact: Justin Vacula, justinvacula [at] gmail.com Local secularists to protest Public Square Rosary Crusade Wilkes-Barre – The NEPA Freethought Society — a community group of atheists, agnostics, and secularists throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania — will be staging a protest of the October 12, 2013 Public Square Rosary Crusade at […]
A group of Catholics in Northeastern Pennsylvania upset with “the secularist advance” is planning and advertising a rally which will take place at the Our Lady of Fatima grotto in Wilkes-Barre on October 12, 2013 at noon. In response to this rally, I am calling on local secularists to join me in protest of this […]
Rick Saccone — member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives who proposed legislation which eventually declared 2012 to be “The Year of the Bible” in Pennsylvania — has proposed legislation requiring Pennsylvania’s public schools to prominently display “In God We Trust” on mounted plaques or student-created art projects. Saccone’s memorandum reads as follows: In […]
Ryan Aument — member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and adult ministry team leader at Grace Church at Willow Valley — has issued a memorandum noting intention to “introduce legislation creating the offense of “Disrupting Proceedings of House of Worship” which criminalizes, among other things, “profane discourse” near houses of worship. Rep. Aument’s memorandum […]
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Independent Gazette published remarks I delivered before Wilkes-Barre City Council members in July 2013 objecting to their practice of government-led prayer during public meetings. I plan to continue challenging Wilkes-Barre City Council’s government-led prayer and will be in attendance to object once again at their August 15, 2013 meeting. Additionally, readers can watch […]
