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Welcome to our second Reads of Reason, a compilation of news-clippings that relate to our work advocating for nontheist Americans and secularism here in Washington D.C. (Don't worry if you missed last one, it can be viewed here ([link removed]) )

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News We Care About
(Good to know for protecting the Wall of Separation)


Biden administration reverses Trump-era rule that expanded religious exemptions for massive federal contracting force (Washington Post, 11/12/21) ([link removed])
"The Biden administration is rescinding a Trump-era rule that broadened religious exemptions for the massive workforce of federal contractors, an effort to bring anti-discrimination protections more in line with previous decades."

Can Public Money Go to Religious Schools? A Divisive Supreme Court Case Awaits (Education Week, 11/18/21) ([link removed])
"The latest case to come before the U.S. Supreme Court on religious rights and school choice has been nearly 150 years in the making..."

Chick-fil-A's Man Inside the National Prayer Breakfast, (TYT, 11/17/21) ([link removed])
The National Prayer Breakfast has been accused of being used to build right-wing, anti-LGBTQ networks and TYT just found out one of the top people making up the guest list for the breakfast is a longtime executive at Chick-fil-A...

Many Protestant and secular hospitals in the South impose harsh restrictions on abortion care, according to a new study (The Lily, 11/16/21) ([link removed])
"If you’re a high-risk patient who needs an abortion, a hospital’s religious chaplain might help decide whether you can get one..."

Religious groups say implementing Biden’s vaccine mandate would be ‘sin against God’s Holy Word’ (Deseret News, 11/9/21) ([link removed])
"Two religious organizations based in Texas and Mississippi say merely implementing the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate would be a “sin against God’s Holy Word” and put their employees in a position to potentially sin as well."
Commentary
(Everyone has an opinion...)
Michael Flynn's comments on Christianity are outrageous but not surprising (CNN, 11/15/21) ([link removed])
Dean Obeidallah writes that "no one should be surprised by Flynn's comments. He's simply repeating what some in the GOP have long championed: The idea that 'freedom of religion' is imposing their religious beliefs upon the rest of us."

More on Michael Flynn's Christian Nationalist event from someone who was there (RNS, 11/15/21) ([link removed])
"A Texas megachurch was host to the latest Pentecostal God and country 'Stop the steal' and anti-vaccine rally — on a series of events drawing crowds around the country."

Separating the devout from the defiant for religious exemptions from vaccination ( The Hill, 11/15/21) ([link removed])
"Democratic values would be seriously threatened if every time a law is passed that you didn’t agree with, you were able to claim that the law doesn’t apply to you."

Conservative Justices Suddenly Discover Limits to Religious Liberty (The Atlantic, 11/12/21) ([link removed])
"Many questions of religious liberty involve two parties who have reasonable claims that a decision one way or the other could violate their rights...But the extent to which certain justices take such questions seriously appears related to how politically sympathetic they are to a given party."


Secular Americans
(Who are we? What are we up to?)
Humanists International launches 2021 edition of the Freedom of Thought Report (Humanist International, 11/16/21) ([link removed])
Humanists International in partnership with with SCA member organization, the American Humanist Association, has launched the tenth edition of Humanists International’s Freedom of Thought Report.

Right-Wing Writer Slams “Atheist Hate Group”… Before Agreeing With Its Points (Friendly Atheist, 11/16/21) ([link removed])
PJ Media published a hit piece criticizing [one of our member organizations] the Freedom From Religion Foundation but ends up actually agreeing with FFRF's position on just about everything...

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