Amanda Scott
Amanda Scott studied government at Georgetown University and was the summer 2016 intern at the Center for Freethought Equality.
Posts by Amanda Scott
What Do Humanists Make of the Burkini Ban?
Last week French police cited a Muslim woman for wearing a hijab on a beach in Nice, France, and ordered her to remove her... Read More
Women’s Rights and Religious Liberty: What California and Illinois’s Laws against Crisis Pregnancy Centers Can Teach Humanists
Last week, two crisis pregnancy centers and a pro-life physician, represented by the conservative legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), sued the state... Read More
Democrats Should Know that Religion Is Not a Litmus Test for Public Office
Just days before the Democratic National Convention began in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, WikiLeaks released over 20,000 confidential documents from the Democratic National Committee (DNC), including... Read More
GOP Rhetoric and Party Platform Defies Humanist Values
This week the Republican National Convention is taking place at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, where yesterday Republican Party delegates nominated Donald... Read More
So-Called “First Amendment Defense Act” Would Actually Weaken Civil Liberties
Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend a U.S. House committee hearing on the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA). The Committee on Oversight and... Read More
Humanists Celebrate Major Victory for Reproductive Rights
Today I attended the rally outside of the US Supreme Court in anticipation of the decision on Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the most significant... Read More
I Testified Against “In God We Trust” in Alabama. Then Came the Death Threats.
On June 19, 2014, I coordinated the delivery of public testimony before the Mobile, Alabama, County Commission against a resolution to display a plaque... Read More