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Calendar Links:

Connecticut Assembly for Reason and Ethics, Hartford, CT; April 2nd: https://conference.ctcor.org/

Freethought Festival in Madison, WI; April 8-9: http://freethoughtfestival.org/

Rationalist International Conference, Tallinn, Estonia; April 23-24: http://www.rationalistconference.com/

Orange County Freethought Alliance Conference in Orange County, CA; April 30: http://freethoughtalliance.org/fta/annual-conference/admission/

The Shift to Reason Conference, Regina, Canada; April 30: http://www.shifttoreason.com/

Headline Links:

Chocolatiers in the crosshairs of “war on Easter” fantasy: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/03/24/the-war-on-easter-has-finally-begun-and-chocolate-companies-are-caught-in-the-crossfire/

Humanist Easter display in Wisconsin honors Obi-Wan Kenobi: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/03/26/for-easter-theres-a-display-honoring-obi-wan-kenobi-in-the-wisconsin-state-capitol/

Glenn Beck: The constitution comes along, and all of a sudden we have microwave ovens: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/glenn-beck-constitution-comes-and-all-sudden-we-have-microwave-ovens

TX lawmaker charged the state to travel of OK for “pain relieving Jesus shot” http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/texas-lawmaker-billed-taxpayers-for-trip-to-oklahoma-to-get-pain-relieving-jesus-shot/

Priest gambles away $500,000 raised for Iraqi refugees: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/03/29/canadian-priest-gambled-away-half-a-million-dollars-his-church-raised-for-refugees/

The world’s first Jewish tartan is a real thing: http://www.electricscotland.com/tartans/story13.htm

Irish Priests will bless roads to improve safety: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/03/26/who-needs-drivers-ed-irish-priests-will-bless-the-roads-to-improve-safety/

Mississippi Bill allows churches to kill people: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/miss-lawmakers-pass-bill-letting-churches-appoint-unaccountable-soldiers-of-god-as-armed-security/

Dinkoism offers atheists in India their own Flying Spaghetti Monster, and it’s a super mouse: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/03/24/dinkoism-a-parody-religion-centered-around-a-mouse-god-is-gaining-a-following-in-india/

Idaho Republican: Bibles in Public schools are okay according to the “little supreme court in my head” http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/idaho-republican-bibles-in-public-schools-ruled-constitutional-by-little-supreme-court-in-my-head/

Sarah Palin’s version of “Judge Judy” in the works: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/03/23/judge-sarah-palin-dont-mind-if-i-do/

This Week in Misogyny:

Scotus ruling on contraception case: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/03/29/the-supreme-courts-suggested-solution-in-a-contraception-case-wont-satisfy-the-right/ and http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/29/3764508/how-to-make-sense-of-the-baffling-order-the-supreme-court-just-handed-down-on-birth-control/