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Kentuckians: Please Help Stop Dangerous Religious Exemptions in Health Care!
Last week the Kentucky Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill (SB 83) that creates dangerously broad religious exemptions for health care providers, institutions, and payers, allowing them to deny care based on…
“Moment of Silence” Bill is Florida Representative’s Controversial Answer to Parkland Shooting
Tallahassee, FL—Today, the church/state watchdog organization American Atheists denounced passage (12-6) of HB 529 in the Early Learning and Elementary Education Subcommittee. This moment of silence bill mandates that public…
Stop the Arizona Church Superspreader Bill!
Across the country, we are seeing a wave of bills to create special rights for churches to ignore public health restrictions and hold in-person gatherings. In Arizona, lawmakers are considering HB…
Stop the Missouri Church Superspreader Bill
Across the country, we are seeing a wave of bills to create special rights for churches to ignore public health restrictions and hold in-person gatherings.
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