What Is Religious Liberty? The Difference Between Holt and Hobby Lobby
Many humanists are often concerned with questions of religious liberty. How can the freedom from religion, as well as the freedom of religion be... Read More
Birth Control Bungle: The Supreme Court’s Appalling Ruling on Access to Contraceptives
The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 30 joint decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Burwell is yet another... Read More
Upcoming Supreme Court Cases to Watch
This past U.S. Supreme Court term was not encouraging for humanists. In the ruling on Town of Greece v. Galloway, we saw religion privileged... Read More
Nonbelievers Denounce Supreme Court Decision Allowing Special Religious Privileges for Hobby Lobby
The American Humanist Association strongly criticized today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Burwell, which granted... Read More
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Legislative Prayer, American Humanist Association Responds with Secular Invocations
In response to today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Town of Greece v. Galloway, which determined that legislative prayer does not violate the Establishment... Read More
What’s Really Going on With Contraceptives? Supreme Court Hears Hobby Lobby’s Religious Objections to Affordable Care Act
Check out the bottom of this post for photos from today's rally at the Supreme Court. It seems like we keep going round and... Read More
Supreme Court Rules on DOMA, Prop 8 and the Voting Rights Act. What’s Next?
AHA’s Legislative Associate Matthew Bulger examines the recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings on marriage equality and voting rights. Will the battle for full equality... Read More
What Next for Gay Marriage?
Voters here in Wisconsin passed a ban on same-sex marriage in the fall of 2006. The following morning, I thoughtlessly tried to console a... Read More
Chipping Away at the Bench How we failed the judiciary in Iowa
Voter anger took a new form as the results of Iowa’s November 2010 midterm elections were revealed. In a real-life twist that would make... Read More
The National Day of Prayer Decision: A Victory to Savor
Thank you so much to the American Humanist Association’s Feminist Caucus for this lovely award, which I’m delighted to share with my Humanist co-Heroine,... Read More