From her experiences as a Jewish kid in a predominantly Jewish public school in Philadelphia, to living and working in Israel where there is no formal division between religion and state, AU Vice President for Strategic Communications Naomi Paiss became a strong supporter of religion-state separation.

The Supreme Court's ruling in Fulton v. Philadelphia is not a unanimous, unvarnished victory for the religious extremists who wanted an expansive free pass to misuse religion to discriminate. It is not a revolution in religious freedom law.

Government must not fund a private entity’s religiously motivated discrimination. Nor may government grant special religious exceptions from a law when it would cause harm to others, such as same-sex couples who want to become foster parents and the children in need of homes.