Maryland Middle School Removes Unconstitutional Religious Display
The Center for Inquiry (CFI) today thanked the staff at Westmar Middle School and the Allegany County, Maryland, Board of Education for their cooperation in addressing an unconstitutional religious...
View ArticleCenter for Inquiry Tells Louisiana Schools To Respect Students First...
The Center for Inquiry challenged two high schools in Louisiana, as well as the administrators of public schools and public school athletics, to cease recent policies that fringe on the First Amendment...
View ArticleCenter for Inquiry Responds to Attorney General Sessions License to Discriminate
The Center for Inquiry expressed its deep concern over a memo issued today by Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III on behalf of the Department of Justice, entitled “Federal Law...
View ArticleTrump Administration Birth Control Rule Harms Women, Panders to the Religious...
The Center for Inquiry condemned the new rules announced by the Department of Health and Human Services, dramatically curtailing the effectiveness of the Affordable Care Act’s Contraceptive Mandate....
View ArticleDont Sanction Religious Excuses for Discrimination, CFI Tells Supreme Court...
A business owner’s religious beliefs do not entitle him or her to refuse to serve members of the LGBTQ community, said the Center for Inquiry today in an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case of...
View ArticleGOP Tax Bill Privileges Churches, Allowing Them to Electioneer, Says Center...
The House Republican tax bill released today unconstitutionally privileges churches and other houses of worship by elevating them to a special class of nonprofit, free to electioneer for political...
View ArticleStatement on the Arrest of Alleged Killer of Avijit Roy
Four years ago, the Center for Inquiry formed a bond with a brilliant writer and science communicator in Bangladesh, Avijit Roy. read more
View ArticleSpeaker Ryan Must Address Texas Tragedy with Evidence and Action, Not Prayer...
The Center for Inquiry, one of the world’s largest secularist organizations, responded today to the remarks of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on The Ingraham Angle on Fox News, in which he championed...
View ArticleSupport consensus renewal of the mandate of Special Rapporteur on human...
The undersigned 85 civil society organisations, coming from all regions, urge your delegation to support the renewal of the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights...
View ArticleAHA Joins Groups Opposing Weakening of Johnson Amendment
Today, the American Humanist Association joined 49 other organizations in opposing a provision in the US House’s Fiscal Year 2018 Appropriations Budget that would severely weaken a federal law...
View ArticleCoalition Tells Congress: Churches Arent Political Tools
Today, the American Humanist Association joined 107 other groups in voicing opposition to a provision in the 2018 House Appropriations bill that would significantly weaken the Johnson Amendment — a law...
View ArticleHumanist Groups Petition Saudi Government over Ahmad Al-Shamri Apostasy Case
Mr. Al-Shamri, a Saudi man in his 20s, was sentenced to death following several Facebook posts renouncing Islam and the Prophet Mohammed. According to the petition, Al-Shamri’s arrest and subsequent...
View ArticleAHA Urges U.S. to Oppose Blasphemy Laws Worldwide
This summer, the AHA joined other groups and individuals in supporting H. Res. read more
View ArticleCoalition to Congress: Save the Johnson Amendment
Today, the American Humanist Association Joined nearly 80 other organizations in calling on Congress to omit any language in pending the tax reform package that would repeal or weaken the long-standing...
View ArticleCoalition Opposes Ed. Department School Voucher Program
Today, the AHA joined with 50 members of the National Coalition for Public Education in denouncing a Department of Education plan to prioritize access to private school vouchers. read more
View ArticleAmericans United And Allies Urge Federal Appeals Court To Uphold Church-State...
Americans United for Separation of Church and State, joined by 13 religious and civil-rights organizations, today urged a federal appeals court to support religious freedom by affirming that a towering...
View ArticleCoalition: HHS Must Not Adopt Blanket Religious Exemptions for Contractors
In response to a Request for Information from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the AHA and other members of the Coalition Against Religious Discrimination submitted the following...
View ArticleCoalition Opposes Religious & Moral Exemptions to Contraceptive Coverage
Yesterday, the AHA and other members of the Coalition for Liberty and Justice sent two letters to the Department of Health and Human Services opposing for “religious exemptions” and “moral exemptions”...
View ArticleFDAs Tougher Stance on Homeopathy Welcomed by Center for Inquiry
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it would take a harder line on the manufacturers of homeopathic “remedies,” targeting products that science and evidence indicate pose the...
View ArticleCVS Must Stop Marketing Homeopathic Pseudoscience as Real Medicine in D.C.
The Center for Inquiry has filed a complaint against CVS Health with the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs in order to keep CVS from marketing homeopathic products as though they are...
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