Weekly Update

We’re helping lead the fight to end child marriage nationwide — and it’s a fight we’re winning.

The Founders understood when a government decides which beliefs are acceptable, it’s only a matter of time before it decides which people are acceptable and which ought be cast aside.

The Supreme Court has put laws banning so-called “conversion therapy” at risk in 23 states and Washington, D.C. — laws that American Atheists has long supported and advocated for.

Extremism operates by blurring lines, bending language, and portraying violence as virtuous. With such a flexible moral and rhetorical framework, you can justify just about anything.

While I won’t pretend that being an atheist in America today is easy, there is no question that we’ve made tremendous progress reducing the stigma that atheists face.

By entangling their theology with state power and military might, Christian nationalists sure resemble the religious regimes they say they oppose.

History teaches us that democracy rarely disappears overnight. It erodes more gradually, as those in power chip away at the rights that allow ordinary people to hold them accountable. That’s why casting a ballot is far more than a civic duty to me.

Repression doesn’t always begin with a dramatic coup. It advances through legislation, litigation, elections, and escalating rhetoric that treats equity as a threat and diversity as decay.

We’re investing in what works to make a real difference in the lives of nonreligious Americans: expert advocates and grassroots activists who know how to organize effectively to stop bad policies and advance positive ones.

The Trump Administration’s guidance is legally unsound, internally inconsistent, and dangerous. It misrepresents Supreme Court cases to justify broad religious exemptions and promote religious activity in public schools that the Court has never authorized and that our Constitution specifically prohibits.

The National Prayer Breakfast is not about unity. It’s not even a celebration of faith. It’s a gross corruption of religious freedom and a vehicle for a Christian nationalist agenda that seeks to impose one narrow set of beliefs on an entire nation.

A government confident in its legitimacy doesn’t fear protest, the press, or public input. Liberal democracies, like the one the U.S. founders envisioned, celebrate pluralism and protect dissent. Illiberal, authoritarian, and theocratic regimes punish them.