No religious group has experienced more explosive growth over the last few decades than the religiously unaffiliated. In 1991, only six percent of Americans identified their religious affiliation as “none,” and that figure had not moved much since the early 1970s. By the end of the 1990s, 14 percent of the public claimed no religious […]
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Philadelphia, PA.– Yesterday the Secular Coalition for America hosted a reception welcoming nonreligious delegates and attendees of the Democratic National Convention. The reception focused on ways the Democratic party can better engage nonreligious voters, who now comprise more than one-quarter of the entire Democratic party. “The Democratic party can no longer take nonreligious voters for
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Washington, D.C. — The Secular Coalition for America is thrilled to announce that all three of its policy resolutions have been adopted into the 2016-2018 Texas Democratic party platform. The resolutions include a resolution to repeal religious exemptions to child protection laws; a resolution to strike discriminatory language from the state Constitution that bars nontheists from
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Washington, D.C.– The Secular Coalition for Texas, a chapter of the Secular Coalition for America, will host the first ever Secular Caucus at the Texas Democratic Party Convention on Friday, June 17 in San Antonio. The caucus will educate the Texas Democratic party about nonreligious voters, who now comprise more than one-quarter of the entire
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This is a guest post by Secular Coalition for America intern, Bernardo Reis. His views are his own. As a Brazilian, I am predictably from a Catholic family. Also predictably, I’m not the strictest of adherents to my faith. But I am a practicing Catholic, and proud of it. Modern Catholicism is thankfully more tolerant
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“No child should go to school each day to have the class declare that her religious beliefs are wrong in an exercise that portrays her and her family as less patriotic than believers.” -David Niose, president of the American Humanist Association “No child should go to school each day to have the class declare that
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Find below our modern English “translation” of Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, passed on January 16, 1786. The statute led to the formation of the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion to all Americans. You can read the original text of the statute here. An
Proposed Expansion of Discrimination Protections The proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act adds gender identity and sexual orientation to the protected classes of race, religion, gender, national origin, age and disability. Currently only 16 states and D.C. have laws that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and federal employment discrimination laws do not recognize
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Washington, DC – The Secular Coalition for America today named the Daily Caller “the most unethical news publication.” The Daily Caller earned the “award” after numerous discriminatory and unethical emails were sent by Christopher Bedford, Associate Editor at the Daily Caller, to the Secular Coalition. The most recent email read, “Take a day off from
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WASHINGTON, DC-The Secular Coalition for America is disappointed at the recent decision by the Boy Scouts of America to continue its policy of discrimination against nontheists and the LGBT community. The Boy Scouts of America announced Tuesday that after a two year review, it is reaffirming its ban on gay and nontheistic members. While the
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