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Increasingly, “anti-Christian” is functioning less as a description of legitimate bias against Christians and more as a way to criminalize any views that diverge from or disagree with a particular strain of White Christian Nationalism.
We’re lead the charge to correct the lies and reclaim our country from the oligarchs and special interests behind the Christian Nationalist movement.
Our tax dollars should not be used to support religious instruction, weaken public education, or undermine the separation of religion and government.
No other secular civil rights organization that is more committed than American Atheists to organizing people at the state level and equipping them with all the tools, resources, and knowledge they need.
We’re demanding records to shine a light on how these prayer were distributed and to get access to documents the Administration is trying to keep the public from seeing.
The politicians parading as theologians aren’t actually interested in applying any real or coherent tradition. Instead, they are, as zealots have long done, writing a new script — selecting, distorting, or inventing whatever justifies the outcome they wanted all along.
We’re helping lead the fight to end child marriage nationwide — and it’s a fight we’re winning.
The Founders understood when a government decides which beliefs are acceptable, it’s only a matter of time before it decides which people are acceptable and which ought be cast aside.
The Supreme Court has put laws banning so-called “conversion therapy” at risk in 23 states and Washington, D.C. — laws that American Atheists has long supported and advocated for.
Extremism operates by blurring lines, bending language, and portraying violence as virtuous. With such a flexible moral and rhetorical framework, you can justify just about anything.
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