Archive | August 29, 2010

The Center for Inquiry’s Statement on the Ground Zero Controversy

August 29, 2010

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CFI fully supports the free exercise of religion; protecting the rights of believers and nonbelievers is central to CFI’s mission. Accordingly, CFI endorses President Obama’s recent statement reminding the country that Muslim Americans enjoy the same rights as other Americans and should not be treated as second-class citizens. There should be no legal impediment to […]

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Arguments Against Military Commissions by Gay Gardner

August 29, 2010

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This remarkable article in today’s New York Times is a reminder that it’s important for us to take advantage of the current hiatus in the military commissions trial of Canadian child soldier Omar Khadr to urge the Obama Administration, between now and the end of September, to abandon military commissions, as recommended in the attached Urgent […]

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