Amy Couch
Amy Couch is the Director of Digital Communications for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. She received a B.A. in Philosophy and Classics from the University of Tulsa and a M.A. in Political Science from Fordham University. An ex-evangelical and recovered conversion therapy recipient, Amy has spent her career advocating for church-state separation, disability rights, and LGBTQIA+ equality.
Posts by Amy Couch
Dry January—Why?
This is the third in a series of articles this month about alcohol and addiction that are part of the American Humanist Association’s Dry... Read More
Commentary: A Personal View of the Fulton Decision
Nearly a week later and I still have a bad taste in my mouth regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on Fulton v. City of... Read More
A Virtuous Woman is Not Silent
#MeToo Finds Preacher Who Sanctioned Abuse and Demonized Divorce Ok, ladies, ready to be submissive to your man in every way you can? Ready... Read More
Failing LGBTQ Teens Who Are Faithful
“Love Your Child No Matter What” should be a commandment In middle school, I remember learning that two gay men were living in a... Read More
Good or Bad to the Bone?
Meet Sally and Ann. Sally has a basket. Ann has a box. Sally puts a marble inside her basket and goes outside to play... Read More
Doctor Plays God, Church Blames Patient
In Genesis 1:29 God says, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it." But according to Tadeusz Pacholczyk, an ethicist and... Read More
Kentucky’s Day of Prayer: Another Version of Thoughts and Prayers Instead of Gun Control?
When more than a million people marched across our nation on March 24 with the message that thoughts and prayers were not enough, one... Read More