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Can an atheist win public office in Tennessee? We’ll find out Tuesday.

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Gayle Jordan, a Democrat running for state senate in Trump country, will soon find out if an openly atheist candidate can win public office in Tennessee. Jordan does not believe in God. It is a fact she shares, but not a focus of her campaign for the vacant District 14 seat that will be decided Tuesday in a special election. “It’s incidental […]

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70 Years Ago, the Supreme Court Decided a Landmark Church/State Separation Case

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On this day, 70 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that public schools could not provide formal religious instruction to students. It was a landmark ruling that built up the wall of separation between church and state at a time before it was so routinely under attack. The plaintiff was Vashti McCollum, an atheist whose child attended school in Champaign,

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GOP Senator Reintroduces Bill To Protect Discrimination Against LGBTQ People

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Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) reintroduced on Thursday the First Amendment Defense Act, a bill that would provide a range of federal protections for individuals and companies that discriminate against LGBTQ people. Framed as a religious liberty measure, the legislation aims to prohibit the federal government from taking “discriminatory” action against a person for speaking or

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Abstinence advocate gets final say on family planning dollars

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A senior Trump health official who has promoted abstinence will be the final arbiter of which groups receive federal family planning funds — a change from prior years, when a group of officials made the decision. Conservatives have long criticized the $286 million Title X program, which funds family planning services, mostly for low-income women,

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How ‘pro bono’ offers to defend religious monuments are stressing local governments

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The Pere Jacques Marquette Shrine was put up in the 1950s to honor a missionary who may have died there, or maybe not. There’s no real evidence to suggest the spot is special, and, wherever he was first interred, Marquette was reburied in the nearby town of Ludington, Mich. In December, the Freedom From Religion Foundation pointed

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Parents Suing LA District Request Anonymity After Death Threats from Christians

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There’s an ongoing lawsuit against Louisiana’s Bossier Parish School Board and Superintendent Scott Smith, filed by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, claiming that the District has violated the Constitution in a number of different ways. For example, Smith mandated that all football players stand during the National Anthem, preventing any form of a peaceful protest.

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