For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, 202-238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, 202-238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Washington, D.C., July 27, 2018)—The American Humanist Association (AHA) filed its brief in the United States Supreme Court opposing the American Legion’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the Bladensburg Cross case. Following oral argument presented by the AHA’s Senior Counsel, Monica Miller, in December 2016, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the AHA’s favor that the government’s 40-foot-tall Christian cross memorial towering over a heavily-trafficked highway intersection in Bladensburg, MD, violates the Establishment Clause of the F
For Immediate Release Contact: David Niose, 202-238-9088, dniose@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, 202-238-9088,mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Washington, D.C., July 25, 2018)—On Monday, the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center joined several other secular groups in sending a letter to the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations to oppose a discriminatory amendment (introduced by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL)) to the House Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations bill that would put the health and welfare of children in our nation’s adoption and foster care system at risk. In the joint letter, the AHA and other co-signers—the C
For Immediate Release Contact: David Niose, Humanist Legal Society Executive Director dniose@americanhumanist.org, 202-238-9088 (Washington, D.C., July 19, 2018) With a special sold-out event, featuring prominent speakers this afternoon at the National Press Club, a new organization aiming to link humanist lawyers and other legal professionals across the nation will be publicly launching. By serving as a vehicle for social networking, issue advocacy, and debate and development of ideas, the new Humanist Legal Society seeks to promote humanist values in the law and throughout society. The Press Club event will feature a panel discussing how the changing Supreme Court is expected to impact p
For Immediate Release Contact: David Niose, 202-238-9088, dniose@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, 202-238-9088,mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Washington, D.C., July 18, 2018)—The American Humanist Association is pleased with a Colorado federal court’s latest ruling in a long-running lawsuit by the AHA and local parents against the Douglas County School District. The decision was issued yesterday in the case of American Humanist Association, et. als, vs. Douglas County School District, a case originally filed in 2014 in which the plaintiffs objected to numerous activities of the school district in promoting Christianity. The decision, by Judge R. Brooke Jackson, finds that the school distri
