The Secular Coalition for America's member organizations work together for the greater good of all nontheistic citizens, ranging from students and military veterans to summer campers and Humanistic Jews.

Three years later, the president has still not kept his campaign pledge to end federally funded religious discrimination in employment. Urge him to stop delaying and sign the executive order!

On March 24, 2012, the Secular Coalition will join with many of the nation's largest and most influential secular organizations at the Reason Rally on the National Mall in Washington DC. Visit the Reason Rally website for more information.

School officials are placing undue burdens and obstacles in the way of students trying to establish atheist and freethought groups at their middle and high schools across the country -- just as the number of nontheistic students is growing.

The Secular Coalition for America today announced the Lobby Day for Reason, a free lobbying day for secular Americans to take place on March 23, 2012, on Capitol Hill. The event coincides with the Reason Rally weekend. Register today!

Journalist, intellectual, outspoken atheist, and SCA Advisory Board member, died December 15, 2011, at the age of 62.

The Secular Coalition for America released its 2012 Presidential Candidate Scorecard—a guide for secular-minded Americans on the presidential candidates in the upcoming 2012 election. See where the candidates stand on secular and nontheist issues now.

 

The Secular Coalition for America presents its report card for the U.S. House of Representatives for the the 1st session of the 112th Congress.

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January 26, 2012
Last week we released our 2011 Congressional Report Card—which rated members of the 112th U.S. Congress based on seven votes last year, about issues important to the secular community.
January 19, 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Secular Coalition for America today released its 2011 Congressional Report Card. A majority of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives earned failing grades on seven issues related to religious liberty and discrimination against nontheistic and secular Americans.

January 13, 2012

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, January 16th, the Secular Coalition for America, along with millions of Americans, will celebrate the annual Religious Freedom Day. The purpose of the day is to promote and protect freedom of religion—and no religion—for all Americans. 

December 22, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Secular Coalition for America today released its 2012 Presidential Candidate Scorecard—a guide for secular-minded Americans on the presidential candidates in the upcoming 2012 election.

December 08, 2011
The Secular Coalition for America today announced the Lobby Day for Reason, a free lobbying day for secular Americans to take place on March 23, 2012, on Capitol Hill. The Lobby Day for Reason will offer secular-minded individuals a morning of free lobbying training followed by the opportunity to meet with congressional staff to discuss issues related to the separation of church and state.
December 07, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC—The Secular Coalition for America stands with the Coalition Against Religious Discrimination (CARD) in calling for a transparent review process in how the executive branch’s faith-based offices are handling religious discrimination claims in the hiring of government-funded positions by religious organizations.

November 09, 2011

School officials are placing undue burdens and obstacles in the way of students trying to establish atheist and freethought groups at their middle and high schools across the country.  The Equal Access Act (originally passed to protect religious groups rights to form and have access to school facilities), which guarantees the right of students to have a club regardless of religious or nonr

November 08, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Secular Coalition for America applauds the people of Mississippi for voting against Initiative 26, an amendment to the state constitution that would have defined a person as a human being “from the moment of fertilization.”

November 07, 2011

Tomorrow, Mississippians will go to the polls to decide on Initiative 26, an amendment to the state constitution that would defines a person as “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof.”

November 04, 2011

PITTSBURGH - Today Vice President Joe Biden spoke to a group of students at the University of Pittsburgh. Cate Laskovics, a senior philosophy major and self-described atheist, asked Biden how the administration justifies religious clergy housing tax exemptions—especially in a time of economic upheaval.