Action Alert

The Virginia Senate will likely soon vote on House Bill 189, a measure which will add a "religious refusal" clause to Virginia’s child placement laws. This clause would allow state-funded private adoption agencies to discriminate in the placement of children based on the agencies' "written religious or moral convictions or policies."  Read more »

Yesterday, House Speaker John Boehner demanded that the Obama administration add additional exemptions to a Department of Health and Human Services regulation requiring that most employers' health insurance plans cover no-cost access to women's preventative health services, including access to contraception.  Read more »

Urge the U.S. Senate not to support Sen. Roy Blunt’s amendment that would allow employers to exclude any health insurance benefit they deem immoral or “contrary to their religious beliefs.”

The issue of “religious freedom” continues to be fought out on the national stage—but now New Hampshire state legislators are aiming to attack employees’ individual freedoms at the state level.   Read more »

Two amendments that allow religious discrimination in our military were made to the National Defense Authorization Act during the House Armed Services Committee hearing on May 8, 2012. We must ensure that these amendments are removed from the NDAA before final passage.  Read more »

Many people go to a therapist for advice on any range of emotional or psychological issues. But if passed, a new law in Michigan could subject patients to further emotional distress—this time in the form of religious bigotry—coming from the very people that patients are turning to for help: the counselors.  Read more »