American Atheist Magazine

Washington, DC – Today, American Atheists filed an amicus brief calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a Catholic parish’s demand that it be allowed to engage in harmful discrimination against children and families and still receive government funds for its preschool. In St. Mary Catholic Parish v.

Norman, OK — American Atheists, a national civil rights organization, has sent a letter to Little Axe Public Schools after receiving a complaint from a concerned parent who requested anonymity out of fear for their family’s safety.

Our Legal Team is firing back — exposing abuses of power and holding rights violators accountable.

The Religious Right is masterful at manufacturing monsters. At the slightest provocation, they clutch their pearls and shout: “Lions and tigers and The Berenstain Bears, oh my!” There’s even a Dr. Oz. From jazz to rock and roll to desegregated buses to Dungeons & Dragons to imaginary litter boxes in public schools, U.S. history is littered with moral panics. ‘Cause when nobody’s buying your vision, you can always sell a villain.

Cranford, NJ — American Atheists warned incoming Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Don Huffines, that it would take action if he followed through on his pledge to dismiss employees that he determined not to be sufficiently Christian. Huffines, who will take office in August, made the pledge during a meeting with the office’s career senior staff.

Today, the Supreme Court continued to feed the flames of right-wing Christian bigotry when it announced that states may exclude trans student athletes from participating in school sports according to their gender. According to the Court, states do not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment when they ban trans student athletes from participating in school sports as themselves.

Dear Friend, Those are the words Dan Patrick, Lieutenant Governor of Texas and Chairperson of President Trump’s so-called “Religious Liberty Commission”, used to describe church-state separation. And if the draft report just released by the Religious Liberty Commission — along with its Christian Nationalist wish list of recommendations for policy changes — is any indication, Patrick’s (mis)belief that church-state separation is a lie was the unanimous position of the commission.

In her recent column “Can ‘We the People’ Survive the AI Revolution”, Peggy Noonan explored what it will take for our nation to endure the next 50 years. Ms. Noonan offered three prescriptions. The second? A “deeply rooted faith in God.” Her advice to the 29% of Americans who “don’t have that” was to “get it.” Ms. Noonan is misdiagnosing the moment we’re living in.

Cranford, NJ — American Atheists filed a formal comment with the Religious Liberty Commission (RLC) demanding that the Commission withdraw its draft report. The RLC’s draft report presents a highly biased, white Christian Nationalist perspective on religious equality in the United States. It is readily apparent from the report that the RLC did not engage in a good-faith effort to examine the issue of religious equality.

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. For more than two decades, Senator Chuck Schumer has told Americans that the Founders called our nation “God’s noble experiment.” He said it at Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing.