Letter to Attorney General Garland
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Dear Mitch McConnell, No.
This week, we wrote a letter to Senator Mitch McConnell. He had seen fit, on the Senate floor, to claim to know what nonreligious Americans feel about the current slate of Supreme Court justices and their disturbingly harmful decisions in many cases that favor faith over secularism. Cases like Carson v. Makin, Kennedy v. Bremerton, and Dobbs
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The Secular Coalition for American Educates Senator on the Pledge
Last month Senator Mike Braun, (R-Indiana) introduced a Senate Resolution ostensibly simply supporting the Pledge of Allegiance. In fact a significant portion of the text summarizes the legal history behind the religious controversies arising from reciting the Pledge in schools, primarily the dispute over the addition of “under God”. The Resolution ends with “the Senate
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SCA Calls on Tanzanian Government to Drop all Charges Against Activist Zara Kay
The recent arrest and detainment of Australian citizen Zara Kay by Tanzanian authorities marks yet another in a long line of persecutory actions by governments the world over against those who would express themselves freely and openly. The list of trumped up violations with which Ms. Kay has been charged include failure to turn over
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SCA to EEOC: Reject Employment Discrimination in the Name of Religion
This week, the Secular Coalition of America (SCA) joined other members and allies of the Coalition Against Religious Discrimination (CARD) in submitting comments opposing the Trump administration’s attempts to, yet again, allow entities receiving taxpayer dollars to use their religion to broadly discriminate. SCA also independently submitted the following comments regarding U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
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SCA Member Organizations Send Letter to Senate Demanding, “No Action be Taken on Replacement for Justice Ginsburg Until After Inauguration”
Washington, DC – The Secular Coalition for America (SCA), and it’s member organizations, who represent millions of secular Americans across the nation, sent a letter to Senate leadership today, demanding that no action be taken on the replacement for the late Justice Ginsburg’s seat, until after the presidential inauguration on January 20, 2021. “It is unconscionable that
Secular Coalition to FDA: Keep religious politics out of vaccine research
The Secular Coalition for America, with member organizations American Atheists, American Humanist Association, Center for Inquiry, and The Freedom From Religion Foundation have sent the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a letter urging them to disregard messages from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, anti-abortion groups, and other religious right organizations that wrote urging the
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Here’s Why the Supreme Court Must Say the Bladensburg Cross Is Unconstitutional
Next month, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association. The case involves the 40-foot-tall “Peace Cross” (a.k.a. the Bladensburg Cross), a World War I memorial in Prince George’s County, Maryland. While supporters of the cross say it’s a perfectly legal war memorial, the AHA argues that it’s
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Congressional Freethought Caucus Letter to Department of Justice Regarding New Religious Liberty Task Force
The Congressional Freethought Caucus sent Attorney General Jeff Sessions tough questions about the newly created Religious Liberty Task Force that Sessions needs to answer. When Sessions goes to testify before Congress, expect members of the Congressional Freethought Caucus to demand answers to these important questions. The Secular Coalition for America also submitted a Freedom of Information Act Request on
Secular Coalition for America Sends Freedom of Information Act Request
The Secular Coalition for America submitted a Freedom of Information Act Request on the Religious Liberty Task Force to better understand its scope, jurisdiction, and interactions with other federal agencies. We will notify you as soon as we receive a response.
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