It is now widely believed that R74 will pass!  According to the Washington state election results and the Washington United for Marriage page, with 1.9 megaballots counted and 1.2 megaballots remaining to be counted, R74 leads 51.8% to 48.2%, with a 67,644 vote spread.

Last month, a 27 year-old atheism activist and computer science graduate named Alber Saber was arrested in Cairo for doing what we do on Ask an Atheist every week. He disrespected and criticized religious beliefs and their political influence. He posted the controversial “Innocence of Muslims” video on his Egyptian Atheists Facebook page along with […]

The Tacoma server (which houses everything but podcasts) was down for about four hours today. From my administration blog: Looks like I had a strange cascading failure today that began with a switch freaking out, which took the router offline and caused the main virtualization server’s ethernet driver to crap the bed. We’re back now. […]

Sam and Mike are guests on KLAY AM 1180’s “Equal Time Radio” to discuss Ask an Atheist’s candidate questionnaire.

In a follow up to this week’s Camp Quest episode, the national Camp Quest organization is only a few votes away from receiving a $20,000 grant from Chase Giving.

We have a new website design in beautiful extra color HTML5. Sam describes most of the important changes. There are also probably bugs, and we could sure use your help in finding them.

Last year, we participated in Evening Magazine’s “Best of Western Washington” Awards – a local distinction that nets any winner a decent amount of positive attention. Thanks to all of you, we came in 2nd Place in a field of 47 candidates for the Best Local Podcast award. We aim to win this year, but […]

I personally just got off the phone with Zach Silk, campaign manager for Washington United for Marriage.  He made it very clear that while he didn’t know about what was happening with our coalition status, he wanted to make it clear that support of Referendum 74 is a wide coalition, and those of us without […]

ON THE REJECTION OF ATHEIST ENDORSEMENTS BY WASHINGTON UNITED FOR MARRIAGE On July 13, 2012, the producers, cast and crew of the Tacoma-based “Ask an Atheist” radio show hosted a 24-hour telethon fundraiser for same-sex marriage equality in Washington State. Prior to the telethon, we had assurances from Washington United for Marriage that our donations […]

Well, it’s out. The official 2012 Ask an Atheist Candidate Questionnaire has been mailed out to 51 people seeking office for President, U.S. Congress and statewide office here in Washington state. Whew! No, we haven’t started endorsing candidate or parties for political office, but we figured it was time that our candidates started being asked […]