A South Dakota state representative will ask her colleagues to vote on a proposed law on Monday that will punish anyone replicating the state seal without its reference to God, and carries a possible fine and one year in jail. As reported at the Friendly Atheist, Rep. Sue Peterson (R-Sioux Falls) has submitted House Bill 1102 …
Republican State Rep. Steve Hurst has proposed a bill, HB 258, that would literally allow teachers to promote biblical Creationism in the classroom. Section 1. (a) In any public K-12 school instruction concerning the theories of the creation of man and the Earth, and which involves the theory commonly known as evolution, any teacher may include as a portion …
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The Secular Coalition for America released a statement today in response to the formation of a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division in the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. According to its new web page, the stated purpose of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division is to “restore federal enforcement …
Trump Administration Empowers Health Care Workers To Prescribe Religion To Patients Read More »
Washington, DC — The Secular Coalition for America released a statement today in response to the formation of a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division in the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights. According to its new web page, the stated purpose of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division is to …
Trump Administration Empowers Health Care Workers To Prescribe Religion To Patients Read More »
It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke but it’s actually the beginning of a powerful defense of religious freedom. In honor of Religious Freedom Day, we partnered with our friends at Catholics for Choice to publish an article at The Hill: “The sad truth is that the religious right is not defending religious …
The Friendly Atheist blog reports that Iowa State Senator Craig Johnson refused to let an atheist constituent give a secular invocation. According to emails from Senator Johnson, giving an atheist constituent the opportunity to speak would be betraying his religious beliefs and akin to sponsoring a bill “for abortion.” Reporting on the incident, Hemant Mehta writes: …
Iowa Legislator Compares Atheist’s Invocation Request to Supporting Abortion Read More »
In 2013: The Boy Scouts end their ban on gay members. In 2015: The Boy Scouts allow gay members to become scout leaders. In 2017: The Boy Scouts end their ban on trans members. All of this progress is encouraging but, unfortunately, atheists are still prohibited from joining the Boy Scouts of America. The Sacremento Bee …
Can you be good without God? Boy Scouts face the question Read More »
Washington, DC — The Secular Coalition for America released a statement today condemning a new policy by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that gives houses of worship broader access to disaster relief funds. The new policy, unveiled in FEMA’s Public Assistance Program and Policy Guide says that the agency will revise its eligibility criteria …
Secular Coalition: FEMA is not the Religious Right’s Personal Piggy Bank Read More »
The nonreligious are a large, growing, and diverse constituency. As a community unified by a lack of faith and our shared secular values, secular Americans come from a wide variety of backgrounds. This diversity is a source of strength for us. Writing at the Huffington Post, Sikivu Hutchinson profiles four young black secular activists. She …
Black Secular Teen Activists: Unchurched and “Un-bossed” Read More »
North Carolina’s voucher program is sending more than $40 million of taxpayer money to private religious schools. Now, some North Carolina residents are worried about how the program is sending public money to schools that can discriminate against students. Salon reports: “…upon implementation, critics slowly emerged, and many pin-pointed their concerns to religion and its …
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