Lynchburg Area Secular Humanists - LASH

Healthcare sharing ministries are unregulated cost-sharing organizations that masquerade as health insurance, often falsely advertised as health insurance. Support legislation that seeks to help consumers be informed and protected.

Urge Your Representative to Support the Health Share Transparency Act - TheHumanist.com Demand that consumers are protected and informed.

Americans need to know the truth about Christian ministries' fake insurance that puts 1.5 million Americans at risk. Help hold these ministries accountable by asking your Congressperson to cosponsor the Health Share Transparency Act!

Protect Americans from Religious, Fake Insurance American Atheists

Democrats re-introduce bill cracking down on Christian "health care sharing ministries" Faith-based "health share" companies have left many families in medical debt. Democrats are taking action.

Urge Your Representative to Support the Health Share Transparency Act!

Urge Your Representative to Support the Health Share Transparency Act! Scroll to the bottom of the page to take action now!Healthcare sharing ministries (HCSMs) are highly unregulated cost-sharing organizations that masquerade as health insurance and are open to people who share religious or ethical beliefs. Unlike...

ACTION ALERT: Demand Your Representative Support the Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act

Urge your Representative to support the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act! Scroll to the bottom of the page to take action now!The American Humanist Association is proud to express staunch support for the Ensuring Women’s Right to Reproductive Freedom Act (H.R. 782), sponsored by Representative Lizzie Fletcher (TX-7) and...

Liberty University students are living a real life footloose nightmare as they challenge the school's anti-dancing ban.

University Students ERUPT In Outrage Over Total Ban On DANCING Liberty University students are living a real life footloose nightmare as they challenge the school's anti-dancing ban. Adrienne Lawrence and Brett Erlich br...

Christian Nationalists are attacking our public schools!

Across America, students are returning to public schools that have been under relentless attack from Christian Nationalists who want to force all of us—especially impressionable children—to live by their narrow beliefs.

Religious extremists are intentionally sowing disinformation about recent Supreme Court decisions involving religion in public schools and public funding of religious education to confuse students, families and teachers about whether religious coercion is allowed in public schools.

We need to make clear that students still have extensive religious freedom rights in public schools.

Americans United has updated their “Know Your Rights” guides, which explain the religious freedom rights of students and their parents in public schools, as well as the rights and responsibilities of public school employees.

https://www.au.org/knowyourrights/

Check out AU's “Know Your Rights” guides and share them with the public school families you know.

Just in the last few months, we’ve seen an emboldened effort to infuse Christianity into public schools. Texas is now allowing public schools to replace certified school counselors with religious chaplains. New Idaho and Kentucky laws encourage teachers and other public school employees to pray in front of—and even with—students. Missouri and Louisiana now permit public schools to teach Sunday-school-style Bible classes. Extremist lawmakers and school board members across the country are ramping up efforts to ban books and lessons about race, sexual orientation, gender identity and even menstruation in public schools.

We’re witnessing a full-on assault on church-state separation and public education.

We owe it to our children to ensure their public schools—the building blocks of our diverse society—are welcoming, inclusive and free of religious coercion. It’s still the law of the land that public schools can’t pressure students to pray, have official prayers at school events, teach creationism or other religious doctrines, or display religious iconography or messages on school property.

Please post these valuable resources on social media, send them to school administrators and others in your community, drop them off in libraries — you get the idea.

As children head back to school this year, let’s recommit to separating church and state. Our public schools and our democracy depend on it.

Know your rights in public school If you’re a student or teacher at a public school, or your kids attend one, it is important to Know Your Rights! about religious freedom in public schools.

"These pious justices have placed their brand of Biblical faith over and above our secular, democratic system of law," writes professor and activist Phil Zuckerman on the decision of the six conservative Supreme Court justices in 303 Creative v. Elenis. Fortunately, there are several rays of hope.

Hope Remains in the Fight Against Theocracy - TheHumanist.com At the end of June, in the case of 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, the six conservative judges of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is perfectly legal for business owners to refuse to serve homosexuals. All judicial justifications and verbiage aside, this ruling is based—squarely and simply—upon ...

Tell Congress to Support the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act! Scroll to the bottom of the page to take action now!The legitimacy of our democracy rests upon the transparency of our government and the integrity of our judicial system. Recent questions regarding the ethical practices of the Supreme Court of the...

Youngkin officials quietly pulled LGBTQ+ youth resources off a VA Dept. of Health website.

LGBTQ+ youth do better socially, emotionally and academically when they have access to resources and feel connected to a supportive community.

Youngkin officials quietly pull LGBTQ+ youth resources offline Youngkin’s administration has at least three times in the past year and a half removed information from the website without consulting its own subject matter experts.