Consensus on the Census: Will Australia Officially Turn Secular?
An exciting push for secularism is happening down under, where the Atheist Foundation of Australia is pushing to make “no religion” the largest religious identification for the August 9 national census. On the last census... Read More
Humanist Rights in Federal Prisons One Year after Holden v. Bureau of Prisons
The humanist movement has long fought for the rights and dignity of incarcerated people. But for far too long, humanists in federal prison were not even able to identify as such, meaning that they were... 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 Government Reform, chaired by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), heard from a... Read More
If White Christian America Is Dying, Is Donald Trump Its Frankenstein?
Since the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans (the “Nones”) has grown to almost 25 percent of the general population and over a third of the Millennial generation in the United States, the humanist movement has... Read More
Louisiana School Fails to Change Pledge of Allegiance Policy, Requires Students to Stand
The American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center criticizes the Lafayette Parish School System in Lafayette, La., for failing to update its Pledge of Allegiance policy to comply with students’ rights under the First Amendment.... Read More
Federal Judge’s Decision a Win for LGBTQ Rights and for Church/State Separation
Since the US Supreme Court’s ruling on Obergefell v. Hodges last year, marriage equality should be resolved. Yet the religious right still continues to push back against the rights of LGBTQ Americans. Red states began... Read More
Need Birth Control? There’s an App for That!
Earlier this week, humanists and other reproductive rights advocates experienced a pivotal and much-needed win when the US Supreme Court struck down Texas’s unduly burdensome restrictions on abortion providers and clinics. But there is also... Read More