Americans United is celebrating the defeat of West Virginia Senate Bill 619, which would have authorized public school teachers to teach intelligent design creationism – an inherently religious doctrine that has no place in public schools.
Americans United's statement in response to the Supreme Court refusing to hear Ocala v. Rojas, a case involving the Florida city and its police department organizing a Christian prayer vigil.
Challenge to state and federal funding of foster care agencies that discriminate against parents and volunteers who do not share the agencies’ religious beliefs.
Challenge to Tennessee state law that permits state-funded agencies to discriminate against foster and adoptive parents based on religion.
Americans United was joined by 14 religious and civil-rights organizations in urging the Indiana Court of Appeals to affirm an injunction against a state abortion ban that violates religious freedom.
Supported a challenge to a state abortion ban on the grounds that it is an unconstitutional preference for one religious view on when life begins.
Abortion bans violate the separation of church and state. Americans United and the National Women’s Law Center—the leading experts in religious freedom and gender justice—have joined forces with thirteen clergy from six faith traditions to challenge Missouri’s abortion bans as unconstitutionally imposing one narrow religious doctrine on everyone.
