President Trump has supported the idea of school vouchers since his campaign. Broadly, voucher programs allow school districts to offer children either a full public school education or a voucher to attend a private school, regardless of whether that school is religiously affiliated. Although only generally endorsing ‘School choice’ during his campaign, Trump’s administration published […]
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President Trump and his administration have been consistently restrictive toward LGBTQ rights. His actions range from making comments at a number of events indicating his support for “traditional marriage,” the complete removal of all mentions of LGBTQ issues from White House, Department of State, and Department of Labor websites immediately following his inauguration, and actual
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Trump’s administration has repeatedly dedicated time and energy to the concept of ‘religious liberty’ in the U.S. That being said, this commitment has been directed toward privileging Christian individuals who feel their religious liberty may be challenged by having to interact with those they disagree with. Specific initiatives range from the development of a Religious
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Mark Dann will join the staff of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) on Monday, May 20, as its first full-time director of governmental affairs. Prior to that, he worked as the director of governmental affairs for the Secular Coalition for America (SCA). He has also served as the federal affairs director at Compassion &
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President Trump has expressed his support for the Global Gag Rule, which bans federal funding for non-governmental organizations that provide abortion counseling or referrals, advocate to decriminalize abortion, or expand abortion services. Trump reinstated the policy which had been rescinded by President Obama on January 23, 2017 in one of his first acts as president.
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A Pennsylvania school district has removed a godly broadcast tagged on to the Pledge of Allegiance after the Freedom From Religion Foundation advised it to do so. A concerned Springfield School District parent informed FFRF that Sabold Elementary School had been proclaiming “God Bless America” over the loudspeaker following the Pledge of Allegiance each morning.
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Trump’s administration have made several policy changes on topics of sex education. In one of their first moves, in August 2017, the administration attempted to cut $200 million in funding from a pregnancy prevention program put in place by President Obama. Despite their attempt, the funding cut was declared unlawful by a court, thus protecting
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The Muslim Registry is an idea developed through of a series of questions from reporters and President Trump’s responses surrounding immigration and surveillance. The interactions lead many to believe that Trump may be interested in implementing a system which requires Muslims living and immigrating to the U.S. to be registered by the government for the
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In a March 23, 2015 interview with the Colorado Independent, Hickenlooper stated, “Kids that can be vaccinated should be vaccinated. There are these urban myths — and in many cases these are now suburban myths and rural myths — that somehow vaccinations increase the probability of autism or other unnamed maladies. But there is no
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A Susquehanna Valley Ethical Society spent the last week celebrating the Secular Week of Action and members delivered more than two dozen bags of stuffed animals to children in foster care and Haven Ministry. SVES President Pattie Arduni said the Week of Action from April 26 to May 2 coincided with the federal government’s endorsement
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