Throughout our country, many Americans face religion-based restrictions on health care. Too often, it happens when patients are least expecting it. They arrive at a clinic or hospital during a medical emergency, only to find out that they are denied care—because of someone else’s personal religious beliefs. Sometimes, this discrimination is even more insidious. Religious…
In less than two months, hundreds of your fellow atheists will be having the time of their lives in Phoenix on April 6-9—and you can be one of them! Come experience all that our 2023 National Convention has to offer: amazing presentations, comedy and game nights, workshops, and the opportunity to meet atheists from across…
In an article this week, the Washington Post put it as bluntly as we have in the past: “Christian nationalists in fact harbor a set of extreme beliefs at odds with pluralistic democracy.” Reporting on a new poll released by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution, the Post breaks down the most…
This week, American Atheists helped change the conversation around religious freedom. Freedom of religion must include atheists, I said at the International Religious Freedom Summit. “Any nation that can take away your right to practice your religion can also force a religion onto [nonreligious people]. We’re all in this together.” Yet this stance seemed counterintuitive…