Liz Hayes
Associate Vice President of Communications
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Americans United applauds the Biden administration for proposing critical changes to the Trump-era birth control rules that allowed employers and universities to cite religious or moral beliefs to deny birth control access to workers and students.
Americans United urged a federal appeals court to recognize that religious employers are not above civil-rights laws and allow to proceed the lawsuit of Shelly Fitzgerald, a high school guidance counselor fired because she is married to a woman.
Americans United is heartbroken and outraged at the mass shooting that marred the Lunar New Year celebrations in Monterey Park, Calif. There can be no freedom for any of us in America until we are all free to come together and celebrate our holidays without fear that we will be harmed because of who we are, what we look like or what religion we practice.
In a new video released by Americans United, celebrities are speaking out in support of church-state separation and abortion rights.
Americans United, NWLC and Arnold & Porter represent 13 clergy from six faith traditions who are challenging Missouri’s abortion bans for imposing one narrow religious doctrine on all Missourians, violating the separation of church and state.
Americans United applauds the Biden administration’s proposed rules that would reinstitute religious freedom protections for people who use federally funded social services.
Americans United applauds the Biden administration for taking positive steps toward protecting religious freedom and patients’ health by rescinding the Trump-era Denial of Care Rule.
Americans United calls for a national recommitment to separation of church and state to combat antisemitism and other forms of hatred and violence fueled by religious and political extremism.
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.
