This week, it was revealed that the New Orleans archdiocese—the second-oldest in the country—has been concealing a serial child molester for decades. This comes in the wake of a report that more than 450 Catholic leaders in Illinois abused nearly 2,000 children. Yet Christian extremists would have you believe that LGBTQ people are the “groomers.”…
This week, a Christian nationalist state lawmaker in Texas spread disinformation about us—and about religious liberty. On Tuesday, Texas State Senator Mayes Middleton took to Twitter to defend SB 17 and SB 19, two bills that would allow teachers and administrators to force prayer on students. “American atheists hate my bill putting prayer back in…
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This week, Christian evangelist Pat Robertson died—but not his brand of Christian nationalism. Indeed, many extremists are still living in Pat Robertson’s alternative reality—and they’ve hijacked our country. Last year, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and this year we are witnessing a deluge of anti-LGBTQ, anti-atheist, and Christian-supremacist bills across our country. Like…
Last December, New York Governor Kathy Hochul inexplicably vetoed our Secular Recovery Bill. We denounced Gov. Hochul’s betrayal of secular New Yorkers, preventing atheists, agnostics, and other nonreligious people from being informed of their constitutional right to access secular addiction treatment programs instead of forcing them into religion-centered options like Alcoholics Anonymous. Despite this setback,…