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My family fled our home. I want to ensure other nonreligious families have protections ours didn’t.
I know what it feels like to be the kid who doesn’t belong, and no young person should have to endure that.
Doomsdayers don’t believe in any future, let alone one that belongs to all of us.
Our Legal Team is firing back — exposing abuses of power and holding rights violators accountable.
Every generation gets its boogeyman, and there is no scarier scapegoat than the atheist.
This is an all-out declaration of war against the very idea of religious neutrality, drafted by a government commission and presented to the President of the United States in the Oval Office.
And in the wake of the Christian Nationalist movement’s hijacking of our 250th anniversary celebrations this year, we can’t sit idly by while one of the highest ranking members of the Senate gives them more ammunition by repeating a false story.
“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.”
White Christian Nationalists aren’t honoring our past. They’re trapping us in old prejudices and power structures.
We oppose the outsourcing of public responsibilities to religious groups that believe some families are more worthy than others — like mine.
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