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HUNTSVILLE, AL – The State of Alabama can easily be classified as ground zero for numerous conflicts regarding issues relating to the separation of church and state.  From Governor Guy Hunt’s use of state resources for his religious events and Judge Roy Moore’s insistence on a Ten Commandments monument to the religiously divisive comments recently made by newly inaug  Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a clear violation of the separation of church and state, today House Speaker John Boehner and Senator Joe Lieberman announced their plans to reopen Washington, D.C.’s voucher program to new students, allowing private religious schools to receive thousands of U.S.  Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Atheists, agnostics, humanists, and other nontheistic Washington, D.C. residents will have no representation at Mayor-Elect Vincent Gray’s first official inaugural event—an ecumenical prayer service entitled “One City … Praying Together” at 8 a.m. Sunday, January 2, 2011.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Secular Coalition for America today announced a matching gift challenge of up to $500,000 from philanthropists Jeff Hawkins and Janet Strauss. Jeff is the mobile computing entrepreneur who invented the PalmPilot and the Treo, and is now known for his work in brain theory at Numenta Inc., a company he co-founded in 2005.
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Leaders from the secular movement are praising a new resource they say will help them be better understood in the media and in society.   Read more »

The movement for a more reasoned and secular America that honors our founding principles takes an enormous step forward as the Secular Coalition for America welcomes its first State Affiliate: the Secular Coalition for Arizona.   Read more »