On Veterans Day be sure to take a minute to think about the veterans you know (and don’t know), thank them for their service, and if it seems appropriate ask if there’s anything you can do for them this weekend. A month into the new fiscal year, Congress has passed three of the 12 bills …
Heretic on the Hill: Let’s Stop the Christian Insurance Scam Before It Grows Read More »
The new Speaker of the House is really the complete package: a man-made climate change denier, stridently anti-LGBTQ rights, stridently anti-abortion, and conservative on pretty much every issue of any importance. One vital qualification for winning the race for Speaker is being an election denier, and here Speaker Mike Johnson shines. He is considered a …
Heretic on the Hill: Speaking of Christian Nationalists Read More »
Letter to Congressman Burgess Owens DOWNLOAD
SCA Calls for an Extension to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) DOWNLOAD
So, the government didn’t close down two weekends ago as predicted here. No one thought Speaker McCarthy would wake up Saturday and decide to do the right thing, even if it meant working with Democrats and losing his job. Clearly Congressman Gaetz, the instigator in removing him, didn’t have a Step Two because almost two …
Editor’s Note: The following was just a little off in predicting a government shutdown on October 1st. No one expected that Kevin McCarthy would wake up on September 30 and realize that he would never be able to satisfy the demands of the 20 or so arsonists in the ultraconservative wing of the House Republicans. Some of …
This week SCA’s executive director Steven Emmert and I attended a briefing for Members of Congress and government affairs staff from secular organizations on the issue of humanist chaplains in the military, or the lack of them. The briefing was organized by our coalition member the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers (MAAF) and their government affairs …
By now, I’m sure you have heard that Woody Kaplan died last month. Woody was a great friend of the Secular Coalition for America and all of our member organizations. I first met Woody in 2000, when the national ACLU sent him to Charleston, South Carolina to try to teach our state chapter how …
Herb Silverman’s Letter: Honoring the Legacy of Woody Kaplan Read More »
It’s Labor Day Weekend again. I’ll be at a Labor Day picnic sponsored by one of the local political parties and attended by some of the local politicians. (Protecting the rights of nonreligious Americans is somewhat easier if you aren’t blatantly a member of one party or the other.) So in observance of Labor Day …
Heretic on the Hill: Delivering Bad News for Secular Workers Read More »
I had some concerns about finding a topic this week for two reasons. First, Congress has been out of session this month so there’s not much going on. And second, I’m on vacation and didn’t want to have to knock myself out on it. I just needed someone in Congress to introduce a bill so blatantly …
Heretic on the Hill: Say Hell No! to the School Prayer Bill Read More »
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