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Congress Moves to Defeat DC Marijuana Law

by Maggie Ardiente • 16 December 2014

After 70 percent of District of Columbia residents passed a semi-legal marijuana bill, allowing individuals to possess up to two ounces and cultivate a... Read More

Religiously Unaffiliated Members of Congress: Are They Atheists?

by Maggie Ardiente • 29 September 2014

Last week on The Colbert Report, Rep. Jared Huffman, who has identified in the past as a Roman Catholic, alluded to Stephen Colbert that... Read More

On the Hill: Rep. Doug Collins Favors Religious Constituents over Nontheistic Ones

by Matthew Bulger • 25 August 2014

Recently the American Humanist Association (AHA) sent a letter to a school district in Georgia objecting to serious church-state separation violations that were occurring... Read More

On the Hill: House Tries to Add Religious Plaque to War Memorial

by Matthew Bulger • 27 May 2014

With election season rapidly approaching and substantive work on important topics like immigration reform and climate change all but nonexistent, some members of Congress... Read More

On The Hill: More Special Benefits for Religion

by Matthew Bulger • 2 April 2014

In early March the American Humanist Association sent out an action alert to its members urging them to contact their Representative and Senators and... Read More

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