Dear AU Supporter,

In just a moment, I am going to ask you to make a year-end contribution to protect church-state separation and religious freedom. Please give me a chance to explain why your gift is so important.

Too many people take the fundamental American principle of church-state separation for granted. You know better. You understand that religious freedom—and the extremism currently corrupting its true meaning—affects so many issues in our lives and society.

Now we face a new and potentially devastating year. At the Supreme Court, we face a frightening number of rulings with implications for church-state separation as we know it.

Please double your impact with a tax-deductible donation today. Your gift will be matched dollar for dollar to ensure we have the resources we need in the year to come.

Four Supreme Court decisions alone could:

• Effectively overturn Roe v. Wade, causing as many as 26 states to take action to ban abortion outright and impose one set of religious beliefs on our healthcare and our autonomy;
• Eliminate the last barrier to requiring states to provide public funding of religious education;
• Require city governments to fly religious flags when such displays are a clear church-state violation;
• Allow public school teachers and coaches to engage students in prayer during classes or school sporting events and impose their religious practices on the students entrusted to their care.

With the Court’s 6-3 ultra-conservative majority, each of these outcomes is distressingly possible. But it is up to us to rally the American majority who support church-state separation and summon our collective power to stop the dangerous agenda Christian nationalists have for our country.

AU plays a unique role in bringing together people of all religions and none to fight in the courts, legislatures, and the public square for freedom without favor and equality without exception.

But we need your year-end contribution to succeed.

Please affirm your commitment to church-state separation and religious freedom in America and the unique leadership of Americans United by making a generous tax-deductible contribution now. Today, it will have twice the impact, thanks to our $75,000 matching-gift challenge.

With your support, AU will be up to the challenge from day one in 2022.

With hope and resolve,

Rachel K. Laser
President & CEO

*Online contributions will be matched through Dec. 31 up to a limit of $75,000. All gifts made in excess of this limit will still provide valuable funding for AU’s efforts to defend church-state separation.