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The survey will be conducted on social media via the Secular Coalition for America’s Facebook and Twitter pages or via this link. Voting will be held in four rounds and will conclude on April 4. The winner will be announced on April 6. The roster features bills covering a wide range of issues including reproductive rights, religious refusal laws, the teaching of creationism in public schools, and LGBTQ+ rights.
Some notable contenders this year include Georgia’s HB 457, which actually suggests a Christian prayer to be used in public classrooms and Arkansas’ SB 289, which would allow doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, and even insurance companies and employers to cite religious beliefs to deny patients necessary care during a scheduled visit or during an emergency.
“The campaign is an opportunity to shine a light on the attacks against our secular government that are occurring at the state level,” said Casey Brinck, Director of Policy and Government Affairs, “Our goal is to inspire activism through education. Lawmakers know that their attempts to impose religious privilege are largely unpopular and success depends on pushing these bills through quietly. The Secular Coalition for America and its supporters will not allow this to happen. The Bad Bill Madness campaign is one of the ways we’re sounding the alarm.”
Previous winners include bills such as Mississippi’s HB 786, the “Church Protection Act”. The bill deemed that “killing a person while acting as a participant of a church or place of worship security team is justifiable homicide.”
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