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  • Robert Boston
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Our Issues

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.

  • Religious discrimination in the military
  • Protect Foreign Women from U.S. Religious Extremists
  • Religious refusal laws affecting emergency contraception access
  • Religiously based child abuse
  • Health and safety exemptions for religious child care centers
  • Federal funding of religious institutions and "faith-based intiative" program
  • Religion imposing a theological definition on civil marriage
  • Government support of religious discrimination in the Boy Scouts
  • Special rights for religion (RFRA & RLUIPA)
  • Religious control of sex education
  • "Under God" in the Pledge forces religion on all citizens
  • Federal funding of religious schools
  • Politicking from the pulpit
  • Tax money used to mislead children for religious reasons
Religious discrimination in the military ›

 

 

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