Faith-Based Programs

Prior to the creation of "charitable chioce" in the 1990s and the faith-based initiatives of the Bush Administration, the constitutional rights of taxpayers and social service recipients were protected because entities receiving federal financial assistance had to abide by employment non-discrimination laws and constitutional religious liberty protections. The Secular Coalition for America opposes providing social service funding directly to religious organizations, seeing this practice as a clear violation of the separation of church and state.

Protect Foreign Women from U.S. Religious Extremist Policies in Foreign Aid

Tue, 06/01/2010 - 09:33

Yemmi Samta didn't know that her 14-year-old-daughter, Saron, was pregnant until she found her unconscious and bleeding profusely on the dirt floor of her ramshackle house. Samta begged a neighbor to load Saron onto a donkey cart and take her to the nearest clinic, 12 miles away. The girl died on the way from septicemia, a form of blood poisoning, and loss of blood.  Read more »

Secular Coalition for America Disappointed by Kagan’s Weak Views on Church-State Separation

Wed, 05/12/2010 - 16:09
The Secular Coalition for America expressed great concern over President Obama’s choice of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, as she has sided with the likes of Justice Antonin Scalia on an issue of church-state separation, and has characterized the reasonable positions of justices such as John Paul Stevens and Thurgood Marshall—positions she herself helped to author—as “dumb.”   Read more »

Secular Coalition for America Makes History with Administration Briefing

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 17:51
On February 26, 2010, the Secular Coalition for America, along with a unified delegation of members of the secular movement from across the country, sat down with White House representatives for an official policy briefing—the first of its kind for American nontheists. The event opened up new channels of dialogue between American nontheists and the Obama administration, serving as the latest indication that we are gaining significant momentum, and that secular Americans, numbering in the tens of millions, are a constituency that must be included in national policy decisions.   Read more »

Secular Coalition for America's Prepared Remarks to White House Officials

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 11:21

Presented to the Obama Administration

February 26, 2010

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Surviving the Faith-based Medical Neglect of My Childhood: An Ex-Christian Scientist’s Story

By Liz Heywood (Presented by SCA Legislative Director Sasha Bartolf)

The last day of my childhood was Saturday, November 22, 1975. I was thirteen years old.  Read more »

Sean Faircloth briefing to White House Officials on Faith-Based Initiatives

Mon, 03/01/2010 - 13:48

Sean FairclothTestimony to the Obama Administration, February 26, 2010

Presented by Sean Faircloth, Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America
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Secular Coalition for America to Meet with White House Officials on National Policy

Thu, 02/25/2010 - 11:36
Marking the first time in history a presidential administration has met for a policy briefing with the American nontheist community, on February 26 the Secular Coalition for America will engage with White House officials on issues of great concern to the secular movement.   Read more »
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