Action Alert

Action Alert: Stop Promoting Religion at the Capitol Visitor Center

Update: On July 9, 2009 the House voted 410-8 in favor of the resolution. To see how your Representative voted, click here  Read more »

Action Alert: Stop abstinence education from being funded in health care reform

Last week, the Senate Finance Committee passed an amendment by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) that authorized $50 million dollars for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs in the Baucus' health care reform bill.  Read more »

Take Action: Tell President Obama to End Federally Funded Religious Bias in Hiring

More than three years ago, then-candidate Barack Obama made a campaign pledge to end a Bush-era policy that allowed religious organizations receiving federal tax dollars to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion.  Read more »

Tell HHS to Stop Funding Abstinence-Only Education Programs

In April, the Department of Health and Human Services added Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education, an abstinence-only education program, to its list of evidence-based pregnancy prevention programs that receive government funding. This decision was based upon unpublished, unreliable, and biased research conducted at Brigham Young University.  Read more »

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