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  Ron Millar, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
January 20, 2022 at 7:15 PM

New religious group targeting Congress

Center for Freethought Equality Humanist champions at risk         Hi John, Two days ago, a new political organization announced disturbing plans to target Members of Congress who champion the values we hold dear at the Center for Freethought Equality. Founded …
  Ron Millar, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
January 17, 2022 at 10:19 PM

SIGN: How to honor MLK’s legacy on voting rights

Center for Freethought Equality An action to take on MLK Day         Last month, the family of Martin Luther King, Jr called for no celebration of MLK’s legacy without the passage of voting rights legislation. In a statement released by Martin Luther King, III,…
  Ron Millar, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
January 9, 2022 at 4:20 PM

Jan 6 insurrectionists target election jobs

Center for Freethought Equality Here’s how we can stop them:         Hi John, A few days ago, Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence H. Tribe published an op-ed, saying:  “The risk of a coup in the next US election is greater now than it ever was under T…
  Ron Millar, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
January 5, 2022 at 9:33 PM

Pending: your free membership

Center for Freethought Equality Help protect civil liberties         John - I’m following up on a note I sent a couple of days ago. It’s critical that Center for Freethought Equality enters 2022 with the largest and most active membership base possible. The size…
  Ron Millar, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
December 31, 2021 at 10:39 PM

Checking in with you, John

Center for Freethought Equality Do we have this right?         Hi John, With just a couple of hours left until we reach our deadline, I was checking our list of donors to our end-of-year campaign and hadn’t seen you on the list. We’re about to head into the mos…
  [email protected] · [email protected]
December 31, 2021 at 3:21 PM

This year’s big moments

Center for Freethought Equality Closing in on our goal         John, This year, we witnessed some of the most disturbing moments in our nation’s history. After failing to overturn the election results of 2020, Christian Nationalists redoubled their efforts to g…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
December 30, 2021 at 5:44 PM

An anniversary unlike any other

Center for Freethought Equality 24 hours to reach our goal - pls help         Hi John, In one week, we’ll mark the one year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection. It was the first time in living history that the United States did not experience a peaceful…
  Ron Millar, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
December 29, 2021 at 11:23 PM

3 quotes + the threat we still face

Center for Freethought Equality Help stop violent Christian Nationalists         Dear John, It’s tempting to think the violence we witnessed this year as Christian Nationalists stormed the Capitol was a one-off event. But read the next three quotes – made in ju…
  Ronald Millar · [email protected]
December 29, 2021 at 2:58 PM

Who is your Favorite Atheist/Humanist Elected Official? & Free CFE Membership Renewal

Hi John,   Your membership with the Center for Freethought Equality will expire at the end of this year. Membership is free, but you must renew your membership annually.*   Membership allows you to attend our annual membership meeting, vote for our board of directors, and be informe…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
December 28, 2021 at 6:13 PM

Insurrectionists seeking power

Center for Freethought Equality Help us stop them         Hi John, “The Capitol Insurrection Was as  Christian Nationalist as It Gets.” That was the headline in the New York Times weeks after a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump attacked the United Stat…
  Ronald Millar · [email protected]
December 27, 2021 at 8:08 PM

Most Important 2022 Policy Issue & CFE FREE Membership Renewal

Hi John,   Please use the link to the form below to renew your FREE membership to the Center for Freethought Equality and tell us what is the most important policy issue that needs to be addressed in 2022. You can also renew your membership simply by replying to this email.   Becaus…
  Ronald Millar · [email protected]
December 24, 2021 at 1:17 PM

Free CFE Membership Renewal & Best Gift

Hi John,   Please use the link to the form below to renew your FREE membership to the Center for Freethought Equality (and, as an option, tell us what was the best gift you ever received -- please don't say a free membership to the Center for Freethought Equality -- it's just too tr…
  Ronald Millar · [email protected]
December 22, 2021 at 10:11 PM

Free CFE Membership Renewal -- No Donation Required!

Hi John,   This is not your typical year-end solicitation -- we are not asking for money! We are asking you to simply renew your FREE membership to the Center for Freethought Equality by replying to this email or filling out our form below.   Since we have an affiliated political ac…
  Ron Millar, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
December 22, 2021 at 3:47 PM

John: Forced to support religious discrimination

Center for Freethought Equality Help us protect the separation of church and state:         Hi John,   No one should ever be forced to support religious education or discrimination. But that’s what the Supreme Court seems poised to do in a case involving parent…
  Ron Millar, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
December 19, 2021 at 4:03 PM

[SURVEY] Do you believe taxpayer dollars should fund Christian indoctrination?

Center for Freethought Equality Your input needed:         Dear John,   The Supreme Court heard arguments earlier this month in a case that could erode the separation of church and state. The case centers around three families who have sued the state of Maine, …
  Ron Millar, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
December 12, 2021 at 4:00 PM

[SURVEY] Should Christian values reign supreme in government?

Center for Freethought Equality Please take 2 min to share your thoughts!         Dear John,   New reporting about Christian nationalists mobilizing ahead of next year’s midterm elections uncovered disturbing video footage. In the video, David Lane who was one …
  Rachel Deitch, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
December 5, 2021 at 4:57 PM

Abortion rights and what comes next

Center for Freethought Equality         Hi John,   I wanted to send a personal note about what happened this week at the Supreme Court. The State of Mississippi and the only abortion provider left in Mississippi presented their oral arguments in a case that cou…
  Ronald Millar · [email protected]
December 2, 2021 at 5:02 PM

Welcome Nadya Dutchin to the Center for Freethought Equality

  Hi John,   I'm very pleased to tell you about a new leader in the humanist community.      Nadya Dutchin is the new executive director of the American Humanist Association. Since the Center for Freethought Equality is the political and advocacy arm of the American Humanist Assoc…
  Ron Millar, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
December 2, 2021 at 2:31 PM

They’re preaching that hospitals are death camps

Center for Freethought Equality making enemies of health care workers         Dear John, Just a few days ago, White Christian Nationalist hate-preacher Greg Locke stood from his pulpit to spread dangerous misinformation about COVID: “All of these people are NOT …
  Ron Millar, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
December 1, 2021 at 6:09 AM

A pivotal #GivingTuesday for abortion rights

Center for Freethought Equality Help fight back against the tyrannical religious right         This #GivingTuesday comes at a pivotal moment in our struggle against a tyrannical religious right.  Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on a law that wou…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
November 30, 2021 at 9:16 PM

#GivingTuesday deadline: are you with us?

Center for Freethought Equality Abortion is on the line         This is your last chance to make your #GivingTuesday gift to the Center for Freethought Equality. Please donate now: we’re just $1,270 away from our $10,000 goal. That means every gift matters. Eve…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
November 30, 2021 at 2:06 AM

Planting this seed

Center for Freethought Equality What world are you helping to build?         We’re hours away from #GivingTuesday, the global day of giving when people like you donate to make the world a bit better. Here at the Center for Freethought Equality, we’re fighting a…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
November 29, 2021 at 3:07 PM

Ahead of #GivingTuesday tomorrow

Center for Freethought Equality Abortion case before Supreme Court         Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday, a day to support the causes and values you hold dear.  But it’s also the day before the Supreme Court will hear arguments on a new Mississippi law that bans al…
  Ron Millar, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
November 24, 2021 at 5:22 PM

3 things to be grateful for in 2021

Center for Freethought Equality There is some good news in our fight         In the midst of unprecedented challenges we’re facing from a fanatical religious right, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on three things we’re most grateful for here at the Center f…
  Ron Millar, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
November 21, 2021 at 6:22 PM

He just revealed their true intentions

Center for Freethought Equality Help us stop this dangerous crusade         It was a stunning statement, said just one week ago, that sums up the forces we’re fighting against:  “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one re…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
November 16, 2021 at 11:18 PM

Last chance: help counter legalized bigotry

Center for Freethought Equality We’re so close to meeting our goal.         John, we’re hours away from our deadline and we only need 13 more donors to reach our 100 donor goal.  Will you help fuel our fight to counter the threat from religious zealots who are w…
  Rachel Deitch, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
November 16, 2021 at 5:18 PM

The growing threat of religious-sanctioned discrimination

Center for Freethought Equality DEADLINE: Help us fight back         Hi, John. My name is Rachel, and I am the lobbyist for the Center for Freethought Equality. I wanted to send you a personal note because of disturbing news coming out of Texas, Florida, and el…
  Ron Millar, Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
November 15, 2021 at 5:18 PM

How we’re fighting back against newly elected religious zealots

Center for Freethought Equality 48 hours campaign to defend reason         Hi John, Tomorrow, our sister organization the American Humanist Association will be hosting the global launch of the annual Freedom of Thought Report, which tracks the rights and treatme…
  Ronald Millar · [email protected]
November 4, 2021 at 1:39 PM

Atheist and Humanist Election Results 2021!

Hi John,   The Republican sweep of statewide seats in Virginia and the very close governor’s race in New Jersey demonstrate the dangerous appeal to voters of Donald Trump's Republican Party and his White Christian Nationalist base. However, there is some hope. The Center for Freetho…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 26, 2021 at 3:46 PM

Can Catholic churches legally discriminate?

Center for Freethought Equality         Hello John,   A federal court just ruled that the Archdiocese of Indianapolis can fire a Catholic-school guidance counselor for marrying her wife.   The judge claimed that the Catholic church has a “ministerial exception” …
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 26, 2021 at 3:45 PM

Catholic bishops weaponizing faith to interfere in politics

Center for Freethought Equality         Hello John,   After the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops took a dangerous step into political interference, public backlash was fierce.   In order to impose their will on the American government, the bishops FIRST tried…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 25, 2021 at 4:45 PM

Judge chooses Catholic church

Center for Freethought Equality         Hi John,   Once again, a federal judge has sided with the Catholic church over the constitutional rights of individuals.   NATIONAL REVIEW: Federal Judge Blocks Biden Mandate Requiring Hospitals to Provide Gender Transitio…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 24, 2021 at 8:45 PM

Christian nationalists making secret plans

Center for Freethought Equality         John --   It's been three years since Project Blitz, a secretive Christian nationalist “bill mill,” was exposed as operating below the radar to shape and enact legislation in dozens of states, using a network of state “pra…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 24, 2021 at 2:48 PM

Catholic bishops working to interfere in politics

Center for Freethought Equality         Hello John,   After the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops took a dangerous step into political interference, public backlash was fierce.   In order to impose their will on the American government, the bishops FIRST tried…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 23, 2021 at 6:46 PM

QAnon infiltrated Colorado voting machines

Center for Freethought Equality         Hi John,   Christian nationalist conspiracy theorists are infiltrating voting machines to steal sensitive voter information and justify the Big Lie about Trump's 2020 loss.   INSIDER: FBI joins Colorado investigation of se…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 23, 2021 at 2:45 PM

Christian nationalists are targeting our kids’ classrooms

Center for Freethought Equality         Hello John,   Legislatures in 15 states, including Oklahoma, Texas, Idaho, and Tennessee, are attempting to ban Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project from public classrooms. Christian nationalists are leading this move…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 20, 2021 at 10:46 PM

Secret Christian nationalist plans

Center for Freethought Equality         John --   It's been three years since Project Blitz, a secretive Christian nationalist “bill mill,” was exposed as operating below the radar to shape and enact legislation in dozens of states, using a network of state “pra…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 20, 2021 at 3:46 PM

The latest attack on trans health care

Center for Freethought Equality         Hi John,   Last week, a Texas federal judge issued a permanent injunction that puts trans health care in jeopardy -- again.   Since trans health care discrimination was barred under the ACA in 2016, religious health care p…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 20, 2021 at 1:46 AM

Should churches be exempt?

Center for Freethought Equality         John -- Religious freedom shouldn't mean freedom from science.   The Christian Post: New Hampshire passes law prohibiting harsher restrictions on churches during pandemics   Christian nationalists seem to think that the ba…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 19, 2021 at 6:46 PM

Catholic bishops are still planning to interfere in politics

Center for Freethought Equality         Hello John,   After the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops took a dangerous step into political interference, public backlash was fierce.   In order to impose their will on the American government, the bishops FIRST tried…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 18, 2021 at 8:46 PM

Stop Christian Nationalists from putting “In God We Trust” on everything

Center for Freethought Equality         Hello John,   Across the country, there's a new surge of cities and states mandating that government buildings, public schools, license plates, and police cars display the words “In God We Trust.”   This surge isn't a coin…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 17, 2021 at 11:45 PM

Christian nationalists want to put “In God We Trust” on everything

Center for Freethought Equality         Hello John,   Across the country, there's a new surge of cities and states mandating that government buildings, public schools, license plates, and police cars display the words “In God We Trust.”   This surge isn't a coin…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 14, 2021 at 2:46 PM

Here's how QAnon keeps the GOP in power

Center for Freethought Equality         John,   The few critical thinkers left in this country should be enraged by the Republican establishment's complicity toward QAnon and their conspiracies.   Our democracy is under attack by people who actually believe that…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 13, 2021 at 8:46 PM

Their hate is now mainstream

Center for Freethought Equality         John,   This isn't hyperbole, and this isn't an overreaction: This is a very real warning about the toxic ideology that white Christian Nationalists have been able to infect our political discourse with.   The Daily Beast:…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 12, 2021 at 8:47 PM

We cannot delay any longer

Center for Freethought Equality         John,   On Monday, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its sobering report that climate change is even worse than we previously thought. According to the IPCC, we could now cross th…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 10, 2021 at 5:45 PM

The real reason we’re seeing new ‘In God We Trust’ Bills

Center for Freethought Equality         Hello John,   Across the country, there's a new surge of cities and states mandating that government buildings, public schools, license plates, and police cars display the words “In God We Trust.”   This surge isn't a coin…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 9, 2021 at 6:01 PM

The chickens have come home to roost

Center for Freethought Equality         John -- the GOP's caucus of science-deniers and COVID vaccine conspiracy theorists are watching their backwards lies and outright fantasies come back to bite them.   THE HILL: Arkansas governor says he regrets signing ban …
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
August 3, 2021 at 10:45 PM

The truth behind ‘In God We Trust’ Bills

Center for Freethought Equality         Hello John,   Across the country, there's a new surge of cities and states mandating that government buildings, public schools, license plates, and police cars display the words “In God We Trust.”   This surge isn't a coin…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
July 31, 2021 at 8:46 PM

The truth about ‘In God We Trust’ Bills

Center for Freethought Equality         Hello John,   Across the country, there's a new surge of cities and states mandating that government buildings, public schools, license plates, and police cars display the words “In God We Trust.”   This surge isn't a coin…
  Center for Freethought Equality · [email protected]
July 30, 2021 at 6:46 PM

Merrick Garland just gave us the opportunity we need

Center for Freethought Equality         Hi John,   Attorney General Merrick Garland just broke some big news:   CNN: Trump officials can testify on former President's actions leading up to insurrection, Justice Department decides   That's right -- we finally hav…