The religious activists on the rise inside Trump’s health department

News

Critics fret some agency leaders are blurring the lines between church and state. A small cadre of politically prominent religious activists inside the Department of Health and Human Services have spent months quietly planning how to weaken federal protections for abortion and transgender care — a strategy that’s taking shape in a series of policy …

The religious activists on the rise inside Trump’s health department Read More »

Mississippi Bill Would Force Teachers to Recite the Ten Commandments Every Day

News

A Mississippi legislator, Credell Calhoun, has proposed a bill that would force teachers to recite the Ten Commandments at the beginning of every school day. The school board of each school district shall require the teachers in that school district to have the Ten Commandments recited aloud at the beginning of the first hour of class each …

Mississippi Bill Would Force Teachers to Recite the Ten Commandments Every Day Read More »

A City Commissioner in Eustis (FL) Couldn’t Handle an Atheist’s Invocation

News

Last year when atheist Joseph Richardson delivered an invocation at a meeting, one commissioner decided to give a second invocation… as if the first one didn’t count because it didn’t address the Christian God. This past Tuesday was the 232nd anniversary of the Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom, a day we’ve come to know as “Religious Freedom Day.” Penned by …

A City Commissioner in Eustis (FL) Couldn’t Handle an Atheist’s Invocation Read More »

Mike Pence gas-lights gay people: I never supported conversion therapy

News

Mike Pence says that he never supported conversion therapy, despite his apparent support for the practice in 2000. Earlier this week, gay Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon said that he was not happy with the White House picking Pence to lead the 2018 Winter Olympic delegation to South Korea. “You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded …

Mike Pence gas-lights gay people: I never supported conversion therapy Read More »

GOP lawmaker proposes one year in jail for anyone replicating South Dakota state seal without reference to God

News

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 …

GOP lawmaker proposes one year in jail for anyone replicating South Dakota state seal without reference to God Read More »

Alabama Republican Proposes Bill to Teach Biblical Creationism in Science Class

News

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 …

Alabama Republican Proposes Bill to Teach Biblical Creationism in Science Class Read More »

Trump Administration Empowers Health Care Workers To Prescribe Religion To Patients

News, Press Release

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 »

Trump Administration Empowers Health Care Workers To Prescribe Religion To Patients

Press Release

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 »

Iowa Legislator Compares Atheist’s Invocation Request to Supporting Abortion

News

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 »

CONTACT US

Spreading Happiness

Inventore curae facere aliquam convallis possimus quo laboriosam ullamco harum iaculis ipsa, consequuntur interdum aut officiis pulvinar doloribus auctor optio. Omnis diam natoque magnis, risus quam auctor porro ratione natus, eu arcu optio.

bluesky-icon

BECOME A SECULAR ACTIVIST

Sign up to receive updates and action alerts!

Scroll to Top