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Know Your Rights! How The Ten Commandments Led Me To Americans United
AU Associate Vice President for Communications Liz Hayes didn't know the phrase 'Christian nationalism' when she was in high school, but she felt it nonetheless – the impression that she was somehow less patriotic, less American because she wasn’t Christian like she assumed everyone else was.
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Know Your Rights! A Coach At My High School Wanted To Pressure Students To Pray. Americans United Made Him Stop
Even as an eighth-grader, Policy Advocate Sam Sokol knew that a coach and teacher leading students in prayer at her New Jersey school was wrong. It made many students – including her – feel alienated in their own school.
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Know Your Rights! Ensuring That Public Schools Welcome The Boy Who Was Left Behind
Growing up in Omaha, Neb., as part of the small Jewish community there, AU Legal Director Richard Katskee experienced the discomfort of not quite fitting in with the religious majority at his public school. A Jehovah's Witness classmate had it even worse.
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­­Know Your Rights! Religion And Government Don’t Mix In Public Schools – And That Means ALL Religions
From her experiences as a Jewish kid in a predominantly Jewish public school in Philadelphia, to living and working in Israel where there is no formal division between religion and state, AU Vice President for Strategic Communications Naomi Paiss became a strong supporter of religion-state separation.
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