Friend,

The Supreme Court gutted decades of established law, undermining our country’s foundational principle of church-state separation in the Kennedy v. Bremerton School District case. The court falsely described coercive prayer as ‘personal’ and blocked public schools from protecting their students’ religious freedom.

This decision represents the greatest loss of religious freedom in our country in generations.

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This court focused only on the demands of far-right Christian extremists and ignored the religious freedom of students who felt pressured to pray and their families. This decision is a direct affront to Americans’ religious freedom and part of a broader attack by a shadow network of Christian nationalists set on eroding the rights and freedoms we hold most dear.

Students lost. Public schools lost. America lost. All because a shadow network of Christian nationalists and religious extremists have a war chest of over a billion dollars. And they’re not done.

But we will not back down and we will not give up. Donate now to fight back.

The network of religious extremists and their political allies behind this case is just getting started. They will work to destroy what remains of the separation of church and state.

The conservative justices decided this case on alternative facts created by a billion-dollar shadow network of religious extremists and amplified by FOX News. They rewrote reality, buying into what a Republican-nominated circuit court judge correctly recognized as a “deceitful narrative,” to sabotage church-state separation.

We must fight back right now. With your support, Americans United and our grassroots movement will not stop.

This is a pivotal moment for our country. We know Americans are with us. Two-thirds of Americans support the separation of church and state, a core tenet of our democracy. It’s time to speak out.

America needs a national recommitment to the separation of church and state. We the People must return to this founding principle and reject the Court’s attempts to destroy it. We must fortify the separation between religion and government because that is the only guarantee for true religious freedom.

Americans United will continue this fight—click here to donate now and show your support today.

Together, we will work relentlessly for freedom without favor and equality without exception.

Thank you.

In Solidarity,

Rachel K. Laser
President and CEO