Liz Hayes
Associate Vice President of Communications
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Americans United continues to urge the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board to reject any application for a religious public charter school that includes a religious curriculum or engages in religion-based discrimination.
Americans United condemned U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s unprecedented decision to overturn a decades-old approval of mifepristone, advancing the agenda of religious extremists seeking to ban abortion and force all of us to live according to their religious beliefs.
Americans United urges the Supreme Court to respect the rights of coworkers required to shoulder the burden of others’ religious accommodations in the Groff v. DeJoy case, with which Christian Nationalist groups hope to expand special privileges for those who share their narrow religious beliefs – at the cost of everyone else’s religious freedom.
Americans United supports the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) because it will protect abortion access and safeguard both religious freedom and reproductive freedom by ensuring all of us can make our own decisions about our own bodies based on our own beliefs.
Americans United and allies have expanded the lawsuit challenging Missouri’s abortion bans as a violation of the separation of church and state to include a 14th faith leader plaintiff - Rev. Darryl Gray, a Progressive Baptist minister in St. Louis - and to challenge another anti-abortion law.
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.
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.
Americans United is dismayed by New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ remarks that dismiss the importance of church-state separation, suggest prayer is the cure for gun violence, and proclaim that he enacts policies “with a God-like approach” and that the Mayor of New York City is “a servant of God."
Americans United applauded the Biden administration for ending the Trump Department of Labor rule that expanded a religious exemption for federal contractors, allowing them to discriminate against workers.
The Do No Harm Act will help ensure that our laws are a shield to protect religious freedom and not used as a sword to harm others by undermining civil rights laws and denying access to health care.
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