A lot has happened since last week. Here are some of the developments we’ve been watching: On Thursday, CNN reported that North Carolina gubernatorial candidate and Christian nationalist Mark Robinson made a series of alarmingly racist and sexually explicit comments on a pornography site between 2008 and 2012. Meanwhile, in Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear signed…
Earlier this month, I attended the annual meeting of Humanists International, a global membership organization of atheist, humanist, and other secular groups that American Atheists is proud to support. This year’s meeting in Singapore allowed us to connect with our international partners and learn more about the state of secularism and freedom of thought around…
Since 1954, the Johnson Amendment has prohibited nonprofit organizations, including churches, from endorsing or opposing political candidates. Courts have repeatedly upheld the amendment’s constitutionality. In the 1999 Branch Ministries Inc vs. Rossotti case, a D.C. District Court rejected a church’s claim that it was being persecuted because of its conservative views, determining: “The government has…