The Family Research Council announced the Pray Vote Stand Summit will replace the Values Voter Summit, which was a bitter cocktail of right-wing politics mixed with a Christian nationalist agenda, conspiracy theories, shameless politicking for the GOP and bad history topped off with hatred of LGBTQ people, feminists, liberals, non-believers, folks who like science and advocates of church-state separation.

As part of AU's Know Your Rights campaign, several members of AU’s staff shared their recollections about religion in public schools. Now we'd like to hear your story, whether your experience came as a student, parent or staff member, whether it happened last week or 50 years ago.

In an equitable and just society, all people, particularly marginalized people, deserve to determine the direction of their lives. Let’s trust people to make decisions that are best for their lives, their families, and their bodies.

Students have the right to pray in public schools in a non-disruptive manner.

In the 1950s and ’60s, Americans United worked to end state laws that banned birth control or gagged doctors from discussing it with patients. These laws were in place in some states because powerful religious groups opposed the use of artificial forms of birth control.

Since the rise of the modern Religious Right in the late 1970s, Christian nationalists have tarred their opponents as ethically flexible people who have no real system of morals because they lack a proper 'biblical worldview.'

In a free country with a secular constitution, we all get to make our own decisions about what role, if any, religion will play in our lives. That’s not good enough for Noem and those who think like her.

Here’s what the framers got exactly right: secular government and church-state separation.