Last Thursday, the House voted to prevent D.C. from receiving funding to implement a local law making it illegal for employers to discriminate against workers based on reproductive health decisions. The law they targeted is the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act which broadens the definition of discrimination in the to include an employee’s reproductive health choices. …
On Thursday, September 14, the House of Representatives voted to pass a “megabus” appropriations bill. Hidden inside this bill was a provision that would effectively repeal Washington DC’s aid-in-dying law. In 2016, the Secular Coalition for America lobbied alongside Compassion and Choices to the secure the passage of the DC Death with Dignity. The bill, …
House votes to repeal D.C.’s Death With Dignity law; Senate has yet to act Read More »
A new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) finds that, on a wide range of issues, a majority of Americans oppose religiously-based discrimination against LGBTQ persons. Some findings from the new survey include: A majority (53%) of Americans oppose allowing businesses that provide wedding services, such as catering, flowers, and wedding cakes, to …
Poll finds most Americans oppose religiously-based discrimination Read More »
Catholic hospitals force doctors to impose religious edicts onto patients, violating their rights and needlessly jeopardizing their health. “A combination of factors are now giving Catholic hospitals unprecedented power over U.S. health care. Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and President Donald Trump are poised to hand Catholic hospitals almost unfettered leeway to impose …
Catholic Rules Forced This Doctor to Watch Her Patient Sicken—Now, She’s Speaking Out Read More »
CIA employees are blowing the whistle about proselytizing inside the agency. One of the complaints describes the problem as something “straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale.” According to sources, the problem stems the Trump appointed CIA Director Mike Pompeo: Pompeo, an evangelical Christian, has said previously that Islamist terrorists will “continue to press against us until we …
The CIA Is Becoming More White, Male, and Christian, and That’s Bad for America Read More »
In August, Arkansas lawmakers passed a bill requiring all public schools to display a framed picture or poster of “In God We Trust” above an American flag in their classrooms. Ostensibly, the law’s purpose is to promote patriotism but, if that was the case, why not use our nation’s original, secular motto E Pluribus Unum (“Out …
Arkansas Church Uses New Law To Exert “Spiritual Influence” in Schools Read More »
During a school board meeting, a West Virginia school district was informed that their policy of having prayers read aloud over loudspeakers before football games are unconstitutional. According to the article, district officials were completely unaware that the Supreme Court ruled on this very issue in the case of Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000), …
WV School District Voluntarily Ends Formal Prayers at Football Games Read More »
On Wednesday (8/30) Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos convened two roundtable discussions on “school choice” in Tallahassee, Florida. It is unsurprising that DeVos, a longtime champion of school voucher initiatives, would host a discussion on school choice. What is surprising is the guest list, which included religious leaders and business owners but neglected to include …
Who was — and wasn’t — invited to Betsy DeVos’s education roundtable Read More »
A new study by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom finds that laws criminalizing blasphemy are “astonishingly widespread.” A few disturbing highlights from the report: • Seventy-one countries, spread out across many regions, maintain blasphemy laws. • Every one of these blasphemy statutes deviates from at least one internationally recognized human rights principle. Most …
STUDY: Blasphemy laws on the books in one-third of nations Read More »
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