The Trump Administration's Department of Education just released new "guidance" about prayer and religious expression in public schools. Our legal director's view? It's bad. It's ridiculous. It's absurd. And it's exactly what we should expect from the White Christian Nationalist movement.
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Mike Johnson calls church-state separation a "misnomer." JD Vance claims the U.S. is "a Christian nation."
What's the record really show? And what's at stake in 2026 and beyond?
Find out tonight, on the eve of National Religious Freedom Day, from speaker, author, and historian Steven K. Green!
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Memo to Mike Johnson and his White Christian Nationalist ilk: We march not because we hate America but because we hate what they're doing to America.
We're all we've got. And we're all we need.
#NoKings
No Gods, No Kings, No Petty Tyrants. Not today, not ever.
#NoKings
The reality is that No Kings has partners of all faiths and none. Plus veterans, LGBTQ orgs, environmental advocates, and good government groups. The protests look like the real America — not the homogeneous, ahistorical America Johnson and his ilk want for us (and are desperate to pretend existed).
And Barrasso, the #2 Senate Republican, chose to single out American Atheists in his floor speech Thursday attacking #NoKings as an implicit endorsement of the Christian Nationalist worldview that atheists are inherently un-American.
Great endorsement of #AmericanAtheists
@atheists.org
Someone should send a thank you note!
Nick Fish of @atheists.org says his group is a #NoKings sponsor but not leading it in any meaningful sense.
"The simple presence of atheists, to some of these people, is viewed an un-American. There's nothing more American than protesting our leaders and demanding better."
According to Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY), the "No Kings" rallies are being led by "far-left activists" like #ResistTrump and...
American Atheists.
What a trash headline. Employees could ALWAYS pray in the workplace. This memo allows coercive proselytizing, potentially creating hostile work environments for rank-and-file staff when their supervisor starts trying to "persuade [them] of the correctness of their own religious views."
Such a bizarre and short-sighted decision. @recoveringfromreligion.org does incredibly valuable work for folks working to heal from very real trauma. It's baffling why St. John's Pride would go out of its way to stigmatize the 50%+ of LGBTQ+ people who are nonreligious. (via @friendlyatheist.com)
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249 years ago, the world's first secular democratic republic was founded by freethinking skeptics, its Declaration drafted by a so-called "howling atheist."
Today, we remember our roots, and we fight in the great American tradition against the establishment of religion and "tyranny over the mind."
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Today's decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor is yet another assault on our nation's education system, part of the White Christian Nationalist Movement's decades-long project to destroy secular public schools.
Make no mistake: this is an all out attack on our nation's public schools, allowing an extreme few to veto any lessons that conflict with their religious beliefs. It won't stop at LGBTQ characters in books.
20+ interfaith, civil rights, and community-based organizations who joined us, @americansunited.bsky.social , and @interfaithalliance.org in denouncing @repmarymiller.bsky.social ’s harmful, anti-Sikh statement from earlier this month.
NEW from me: A deep dive into OMB Director Russell Vought — specifically, how his plan to reshape the government is rooted in a specific ideology: Christian nationalism.
Also, his favorite religious quote from an early president may be, uh…not true. religionnews.com/2025/06/23/r...
We stand in solidarity with our friends at @atheists.org & humanists across the globe. It's ridiculous and deeply embarrassing that our home - one of the first countries to constitutionally guarantee the right to free speech - is now considered an unsafe place for religious minorities to gather.
We are grateful to our partners at @humanists.bsky.social and @humanistcanada.bsky.social for their willingness to take on this event. We are united in our unshaken support for reason, religious freedom, and equal rights for *all* people, not just the select few favored by religious nationalists.
