About a month ago I "came out" to my friends and family on Facebook. I posted that I'm proudly Pagan and proudly bisexual. After years of staying quiet about both, it was time. Thankfully, everyone on my friends list was supportive; everyone except my dad.
The Inland Northwest Freethought Society and the Spokane Secular Society will join forces again this summer and host a booth at the Kootenai County Fair in Idaho (Aug. 21 - 25) and the Spokane County Interstate Fair (Sept.6-15). This will be our second year at the Idaho Fair and the third for the Spokane shindig. I heartily invite any of the Spokane Faith & Values contributors and readers who may be visiting either fair to stop by our table and say hi.
On Wednesday, a controversial Facebook page called “Virgin Mary Should’ve Aborted” was unpublished after the social media giant received a number of complaints from Christians who said the page violated Facebook's community standards, the Christian Post reported.
I just read a story about a mother who said her 2-year-old son was bullied by a grown man. They were in a Wal-Mart store shopping and the little boy was wearing a pink headband. The man took the headband off the boy and cuffed him and said, “You’ll thank me later.”
Tonight at 7 p.m. an Interfaith Memorial Service will be held at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima, followed by the bombing of Nagasaki three days later.