For Immediate Release American Humanist Association Contact: Merrill Miller, 202-238-9088 ext. 105, merrillmiller@americanhumanist.org Freedom From Religion Foundation Contact: Annie Laurie Gaylor, 608-256-8900, algaylor@FFRF.org Sam Grover, 608-256-8900, msgrover@ffrf.org (Mechanicsburg, PA, Jan. 13, 2017)—The American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center and Freedom From Religion Foundation criticize the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections for unconstitutionally requiring an inmate to participate in a religious program as a condition of parole. The inmate, who identifies as an atheist, is required to participate in the Therapeutic Community program as part of his corre
For Immediate Release Contact: Merrill Miller, 202-238-9088 ext. 105, merrillmiller@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, 202-238-9088 ext. 120, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Blythewood, SC, Jan. 6, 2017)—The American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center received assurances from the South Carolina Department of Public Safety that it will no longer send out the Christian series “A Time to Grieve” to families who have lost members to traffic accidents. In an official statement reported by WLTX-19 and by the State, the department said, “We have re-evaluated the ‘A Time to Grieve’ and will no longer send those particular pieces of literature to families following the death of a l
For Immediate Release Contact: Merrill Miller, 202-238-9088 ext. 105, merrillmiller@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, 202-238-9088 ext. 120, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Blythewood, SC, Jan. 3, 2017)—The American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center criticizes the South Carolina Department of Public Safety for using a local citizen’s grief as an opportunity to unconstitutionally proselytize Christianity. The American Humanist Association was contacted by a citizen of Anderson, South Carolina, who identifies as an atheist and whose father had recently died in a car accident. In response to the accident, the South Carolina Department of Public Safety sent her a proselytizi
