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  • Press Release

    U.S. Supreme Court Should Affirm That Trump Birth Control Rules Violate Religious Freedom And Are Unconstitutional

    “The Supreme Court should affirm that it is unconstitutional for the Trump administration to misuse religious freedom to block employees’ and students’ access to birth control. Federal courts in Pennsylvania, California and just yesterday in our case in Indiana have ruled against this discriminatory policy," said Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United. "As a reminder, the Affordable Care Act guarantees employees and students the right to contraceptive coverage. The religious beliefs of their bosses and university officials cannot deny them this right."
  • Press Release

    Trump Uses Religious Freedom Day to Violate Religious Freedom For Public Schoolchildren And Millions Of Vulnerable People

    “President Trump isn’t trying to protect religious freedom; he’s pandering to religious extremists who want to inject a narrow set of religious beliefs into our public schools and taxpayer-funded services,” said Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United. "On Religious Freedom Day of all days, we must make clear that religious freedom demands that everyone be free to practice their faith, or no faith at all, but only so long as they don’t harm others. Religious freedom is not a license to grant unparalleled religious privilege.”

  • FACT: Church-state separation is good for BOTH religion AND government. It protects religion from government interference, and it protects our shared secular laws from being shaped by the religious beliefs of a select few.

    — Americans United (@americansunited) January 18, 2020
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  • DeVos LIE: “Our Constitution doesn’t exist to protect us from religion, it exists to protect religion from government.”

    — Americans United (@americansunited) January 18, 2020
    10 hours 47 minutes ago

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  • FACT: The separation of church and state prevents government from favoring one religion over others or religion over nonreligion. Government officials cannot impose religion on the rest of us – that’s up to every individual to decide for themselves.

    — Americans United (@americansunited) January 18, 2020
    10 hours 48 minutes ago

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  • DeVos LIE: “Too many misinterpret a separation of church and state as an invitation for government to separate people from their faith.”

    — Americans United (@americansunited) January 18, 2020
    10 hours 48 minutes ago

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  • FACT: Religious freedom means everyone has the right to pray, or not, without government coercion. That’s not partisan, totalitarian or new – it’s guaranteed by the Constitution, and AU has been protecting it for almost 75 years.

    — Americans United (@americansunited) January 18, 2020
    10 hours 49 minutes ago

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  • On Tuesday, SCOTUS will consider whether taxpayers can be forced to fund religious education & discrimination. The court’s decision could set a dangerous precedent, eroding church-state separation in Montana & 3/4 of U.S. states. https://www.au.org/blogs/montana-case-high-court
    10 hours 54 minutes ago

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