Rob Boston
Rob Boston is director of communications at Americans United for Separation of Church and State and a board member of the American Humanist Association. Rob writes the Church & State column for The Humanist magazine and TheHumanist.com.
Posts by Rob Boston
CHURCH & STATE | The Kavanaugh Nomination: How Screwed Are We?
The late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was no fan of the separation of church and state. In 1985, when the Supreme Court handed... Read More
Betsy DeVos Wants You to Pay for Someone Else’s Religion
President Donald Trump’s cabinet is full of men and women who simply aren’t qualified to do the jobs they’ve been assigned. Nowhere is this... Read More
Are We Headed for One Christian Nation under Trump?
Much has been written about the religious right’s support for President Donald Trump, a serial philanderer, habitual liar, and admitted sexual assaulter of women.... Read More
Not-So-Civil Religion: The Long-Running Fraud of “Ceremonial Deism”
I occasionally meet with delegations of visitors from overseas as part of a program run by the US State Department. The visitors, usually government... Read More
Can American Democracy Survive Trump’s Reign of Lies?
My mother was a fan of Simon and Garfunkel, and I grew up hearing a lot of their music. I came to appreciate the... Read More
When Religious Freedom Is a Recipe for Discrimination
Jack Phillips owns a bakery in Lakewood, Colorado. Phillips is a conservative evangelical Christian who opposes marriage equality. He insists that his beliefs give... Read More
Church, State, and Taxpayer Support
In my travels in the world of humanism, I’ve encountered lots of people who speak wistfully about the differences between the United States and... Read More