At the Secular Coalition we try to stay in our lane, and our lane is not trade and tariffs. However, when someone with a high school understanding of trade deficits blows up $8 trillion in market value, changes his mind because of “an instinct,” and settles on 145 percent tariffs on everything we buy from …
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Last week the Secular Coalition for America, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and the American Humanist Association held the first annual Congressional Reason Reception on Capitol Hill. We had at least 75 people in attendance including many Congressional staff, and over 400 watching on Zoom. Representatives Jared Huffman (D-CA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and Greg Casar (D-TX) were …
I’m thinking about House Speaker and Christian nationalist Mike Johnson because I just came from what I’ll just call a high-level meeting with several members of Congress and people from other secular organizations where we talked about ways to confront his concept of “the so-called separation of church and state.” Because he doesn’t really see …
Heretic on the Hill: The Bible Can Be So Convenient Read More »
Use this helpful guide when meeting with your Congressional representatives urging them to join the Congressional Freethought Caucus. The Congressional Freethought Caucus The Congressional Freethought Caucus was established three years ago in reaction to the influence of religion in public policymaking in ways that the Caucus’s founders deem inappropriate in a secular government. They see …
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Washington, D.C. – Today, the Congressional Freethought Caucus hosted its first annual Thomas Paine Breakfast. This event intends to honor the very ideals of reason, freethought, science, and ethics, that were championed by its Founding Father namesake. In a time when theocratic and anti-science rhetoric is finding receptive ears at all levels of civic society, …
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On February 6, the Secular Coalition for America hosted its annual Members’ Meeting, bringing together the leadership of our 20 member organizations. To open the meeting’s events, we were honored to be joined by the newest member of the Congressional Freethought Caucus (CFC), Representative Don Beyer, of Virginia’s 8th District. The Congressman not only discussed …
Rep. Don Beyer: Always Searching, Always Bent on Discovering Read More »
Facebook faced accusations this morning of enabling censorship on their platform through a letter from Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA), co-signed by Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Susan Wild (D-PA), and Paul Gosar (R-AZ). Huffman, a co-chair and founding member of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, called out Facebook tools and policies that extremist groups commonly exploit in …
Now that the shutdown has been suspended, Washington has begun to return to normal business. I wanted to let you know about what has been happening in the first few weeks of the 116th Congress and how we are impacting policy. Committee Assignments for Congressional Freethought Caucus Members Now that the shutdown has been suspended …
On Thursday, leaders of representatives from the Secular Coalition for America, American Atheists, the American Humanist Association, the Center for Inquiry, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, attended a reception on Capitol Hill hosted by the Congressional Freethought Caucus. Rep. Jamie Raskin, a co-chair of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, gave an informal speech at the event …
Rep. Jamie Raskin Says; “We need a secular movement that is big and strong” Read More »
The new, 116th Congress includes the first two Muslim women ever to serve in the House of Representatives, and is, overall, slightly more religiously diverse than the prior Congress. […] But by far the largest difference between the U.S. public and Congress is in the share who are unaffiliated with a religious group. In the …
There’s (Officially) Not a Single Open Atheist in the New Congress Read More »
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