Equality

UNBIASED GOVERNANCE: EQUAL RIGHTS, EQUAL RESPONSIBILITIES.

Protecting the rights of all its citizens equally, while also holding everyone equally responsible for abiding by laws that serve to benefit our society, is a fundamental tenet of America’s constitutional democracy. Our laws must be unbiased and religiously neutral.

When the government favors one group and their belief system over another, it relegates all others to a second-class status. Secular values voters believe in an America where citizens of all faiths and of none are equally protected and held equally accountable by the law.

Advocate for Equality
Key Issue
We all have a duty to protect children from abuse. Failure to report child abuse amounts to complicity and allows the abuse to continue. All state statutes identify specific people who interact regularly with children who are required by law to report abuse. States exempting clergy from this list should remove this dangerous loophole that allows abuse to continue unseen and unheard.

Reporting Child Abuse
Key Issue
There are atheists in foxholes, and they serve for good and country. If you support the troops, support all the troops, regardless of their religious affiliation.

Nontheist Erasure
Key Issue
It's time to shine a light on the religious coercion taking place in the military. Our service members should never be subjected to religious proselytizing.

Religious Coercion
Key Issue
Health and safety standards should be applied equally to all childcare providers, regardless of their religious affiliation or lack thereof. All carveouts and loopholes for religiously affiliated childcare providers should be removed to protect children and their families.

Childcare Centers
Key Issue
Humanist chaplains are trained and ready to serve, but the Armed Forces continues to ignore the needs of nontheists in uniform. Meanwhile, the 5,000 chaplains serving in the Chaplain Corps are not adequately trained to ensure that nontheist service members are receiving the support they need.

Chaplain Corps Services
Key Issue
All nonprofits should be transparent and held accountable to American taxpayers. Religious organizations should be held to the same tax filing standards as all other charities.

Johnson Amendment
Key Issue
A special tax exemption in the Internal Revenue Code allows a house of worship to provide one or more of its “ministers of the Gospel” tax-free housing or tax-free income equivalent to the rental value of the clergy’s residence.

Parsonage
Key Issue
Religion is never an excuse to neglect a child. Religious loopholes for medical neglect must be repealed.

Medical Neglect
Key Issue
Religion is never an excuse to discriminate. Get rid of religious loopholes that are rolling back hard-won civil rights.

Discrimination
Key Issue
Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution prohibits a religious test for elected office. Yet nonreligious candidates continue to be stigmatized and discouraged from being openly secular.

No Religious Test for Office
Key Issue
Those who serve our country should be treated with respect. Yet nontheistic servicemembers are often subjected to proselytism and forced to participate in religious activities.

Nontheists in the Military
Key Issue
Don't let the title fool you. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act has done more to destroy individual religious freedom than nearly any other federal law.

Religious Freedom Restoration Act

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