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 in one school’s football program. The letter states that the AHA... Read More

While the majority of the American Humanist Association’s advocacy work is focused on domestic issues, at the federal and state level, the organization has participated over the last few years in the effort to ensure... Read More

Yesterday the American Humanist Association held its first ever congressional briefing in front of a packed audience of congressional staffers, members of the armed services, and the media. The room ended up being filled completely,... Read More

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, which affirmed the ability of for-profit corporations to cite religious objections in refusing to cover certain types of contraception in their... Read More

Last week I attended an event on the release of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s (USCIRF) annual report, entitled “15th Anniversary Retrospective: Renewing the Commitment,” which “examines the past decade and a half... Read More

In May I wrote about a bill that raised some big church-state separation concerns, the World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2013. This act would place a commemorative plaque inscribed with the prayer President... Read More

In April I wrote about how President Obama could protect LGBT workers with unilateral action since the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) (which would update federal anti-discrimination regulations to prevent workplace discrimination against a person because... Read More