Cancer patient fired from job for being an atheist, now needs financial help

[Eilonnwy]

I found out about this on Atheists Defense Network. In short, a woman was fired from her job because her employer found her husband's blog and found out she was an atheist. She is also a breast cancer patient and lost her insurance as a result.

You can find out more about her here: http://saveamanda.com/default.aspx

I've already made a small donation myself and featured her story on my examiner.com page

Mmmm, just a little niggle. You've of course verified this story independently of her husband's blog asking for money? How? (PLEASE don't say another blog)

I guess I'm asking for evidence. I will sometimes give one-to-one to an individual, but never on the basis of an emotional appeal on the internet. It's just too hard to prove the veracity of such stories (even the ones in my own country). On the face of it,I simply don't believe any part of the claim.

The sources seem legit to me, which I linked to in my article. And if you look on their website, the story of her being fired was featured on local news. If you don't trust it, that's fine. But that fact that someone would be discriminated against in Texas is not surprising. There are many jobs in the Bible Belt that take religious seriously like that. And if was some type of scam, seems a bad idea to go about it as an atheist. Either way, I looked into the news sources myself before deciding to make a small donation myself.