In just a month, we’ll be seeing you in Phoenix at our 2023 National Convention!Our annual conference is the best place to hear about the threats to our rights, learn how to fight back, and connect with atheists from all across the country who are working hard to build our movement.That’s why we’re proud to…
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 hospitals…
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 the…
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 alarming…
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 to many…
For decades, we have called for the end of the National Prayer Breakfast.This Christian nationalist event is dangerous. Every year, lawmakers from both parties have come together and promoted the myth that the U.S. is a Christian nation. That ideology helps justify the Supreme Court’s and state legislatures’ attacks on our human and civil rights.Just…
Amazon Smile has been a significant source of income for American Atheists, and for many other nonprofit organizations. Through this program, Amazon donated 0.5% of a customer’s purchase to the charity of the customer’s choice.Sadly, Amazon just announced that they’re terminating the program. That means we, like many nonprofits, face the challenge of filling this…
In most states across the country, legislatures opened two weeks ago—and that means a huge influx of legislation. Right now, we’re tracking 503 bills. Many of them are full of hate and discrimination, and specifically Christian nationalism. Others are positive and advance our rightsEvery day, I write testimony to lawmakers, asking them to pass, reject,…
We are pleased to announce the publication of the fifth edition of the State of the Secular States report! This groundbreaking report on state laws and policies that affect religious equality and the separation of religion and government has been expanded and updated based on the 2022 legislative session. The report examines more than 50…
We did it! This week, the Biden Administration acted to have nine agencies once again protect vulnerable people from discrimination in the name of religion.In December 2020, the Trump Administration pushed through changes to let federally funded service providers discriminate against people, force religious programming on them, and refuse to refer them to a non-discriminatory…