At-A-Glance
Activities updateThe Secular Coalition for America is the national lobby for atheists, humanists, freethinkers and other nontheistic Americans.
Romney Continues to Call Atheists Immoral
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Religious Right Tries, Again, to Impose the Ten Commandments on American CitizensMay 14 - Rev. Rob Schenck, president of the Faith and Action ministry, is trying to drum up support for a Congressional resolution declaring an annual National Ten Commandments Weekend. But America prides itself on religious diversity, and our government must never tell us how – or whether – to worship. More... |
Army Promotes Officer Previously Reprimanded for ProselytizingMay 8 - Why was Brig. Gen. Robert L. Caslen Jr. promoted to Major General after being sanctioned by the Army for appearing in a fundraising video for Christian Embassy while in uniform? By promoting Gen. Caslen, the U.S. Senate signals its approval of a well documented and growing culture of religious intolerance in the military. More... Religious Discrimination by Federal ContractorsMay 5 - The Secular Coalition for America thanks House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-SC) for stating that religious discrimination has no place in federal contracting and that organizations should never be allowed "to use religion to camouflage any kind of discrimination." More... |
Federal Funds to Religious Schools in D.C.
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May 14 - Mitt Romney has made progess in his views about nontheists. We can only hope Mr. Romney will one day understand that statements about morality and freedom requiring religion are not only incorrect, but offensive to Americans without a god belief. 
May 5 - The Secular Coalition for America thanks Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) for her continued opposition to the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), which channels taxpayer money to religious schools rather than providing secular, public education for the District's students. We share Del. Holmes Norton's view that the OSP should be disbanded, and that the $18 million allocated by the Bush administration to extend the OSP should be put back into D.C. public schools. We're in the news.
Metro Boston News.com
May 7 - Humanists Come Out Against Bias (offsite)
The Secular Coalition for America, the group through which [Rep. Pete] Stark came out [as the first openly nontheistic member of Congress], confirms that numerous other legislators have privately acknowledged their nonbelief, but the [Coalition] will not "out" any of them without their consent.
Humanist Network News
Apr. 9 - Humanists May Sue HUD Over Religious "Pork" (offsite)
After reviewing the 24 Congressional appropriations committee reports for fiscal year 2008, the Secular Coalition for America found that religious-oriented groups received more than $30 million dollars in Congressional earmarks.