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The one group still excluded from the Boy Scouts — atheists

By William Cummings — July 29, 2015
The vote by the Boy Scouts of America's board to lift the organization's ban on gay scout leaders is just the latest chapter in a long history of controversy over who merits the right to wear the scout uniform.

U.S. churchgoers still sit in segregated pews, and most are OK with that

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 16, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) But beware, said LifeWay Research director Ed Stetzer: "If you don't like diversity, you're really not going to like heaven."

Two Israeli burial societies agree not to segregate men and women at funerals

By Michele Chabin — December 10, 2014
JERUSALEM (RNS) Until now, the burial societies in Israel have ignored 2013 directives from the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the attorney general banning gender segregation in cemeteries.

Instead of hating on social justice, atheists should tackle STEM segregation

By Chris Stedman — November 21, 2014
As a racially polarized nation awaits the grand jury decision on the officer who killed unarmed teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, atheists and Humanists must step up on addressing STEM segregation and racism.

D.C. church recalls real butler as quiet man of steady faith

By Adelle M. Banks — August 13, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) “The attributes that made him a great butler made him a great usher,” said Denise Johnson, an usher at the predominantly black D.C. church where Eugene Allen was a member for six decades.
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