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Wed, 04/01/2009 - 13:10

The Secular Coalition for America works on a variety of issues to protect and strengthen the secular character of our government and the rights of nontheistic Americans. Below we link to our position papers on a few of the issues we monitor in Congress and government agencies. For activist campaigns concerning specific legislation, please see our Current Action Alerts.

  • End Religious Discrimination in the Military
  • Protect Foreign Women from U.S. Religious Extremist Policies in Foreign Aid
  • Eliminate Religiously-Based Laws Interfering with Contraception Access
  • Eliminate Health and Safety Standard Exemptions for Religious Child Care Centers
  • Protect Teen Students’ Rights to Form Atheist Clubs
  • End Marriage Discrimination and Oppose Theological Definitions of Marriage
  • Revoke Public Funding to the Boy Scouts Due to Religiously-Based Discrimination
  • Eliminate Religious Control of Sex Education in Public Schools
  • Remove "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance
  • End Public Funding of Religious Schools
  • Eliminate Taxpayer-Funded Housing for ‘Ministers of the Gospel’
  • Tax money used to mislead children for religious reasons
  • End Employment Discrimination by Religious Groups via 'Faith-Based' Initiatives
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    • Eliminate Religiously-Based Laws Interfering with Contraception Access
    • Eliminate Taxpayer-Funded Housing for ‘Ministers of the Gospel’
    • Revoke Public Funding to the Boy Scouts Due to Religiously-Based Discrimination
    • End Marriage Discrimination and Oppose Theological Definitions of Marriage
    • Protect Foreign Women from U.S. Religious Extremist Policies in Foreign Aid
    • End Religious Discrimination in the Military
    • Eliminate Religious Control of Sex Education in Public Schools
    • End the Public Funding of Religious-Based Education
    • Remove "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance
    • End Religious Privileging by the IRS and Government Institutions
    • Eliminate Health and Safety Standard Exemptions for Religious Child Care Centers
    • Protect Teen Students' Rights to Form Atheist Clubs
    • End Employment Discrimination by Religious Groups via 'Faith-Based' Initiatives
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  • Woody Kaplan, Chair
  • Robert Boston
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Daniel Dennett
  • Sam Harris
  • Jeff Hawkins
  • Christopher Hitchens*
  • Wendy Kaminer
  • Michael Lewis
  • Michael Newdow
  • Steven Pinker
  • Salman Rushdie
  • Ellery Schempp
  • Todd Stiefel
  • Julia Sweeney
  • *In memoriam
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