Contact: Sarah Henry, (202) 238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, (202) 238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org The American Humanist Association commends the recent District Court decision condemning the Pennsylvania House of Representatives’ policy banning nonreligious people from giving the daily invocations on the House floor. “The Pennsylvania district court properly understood that the Supreme Court’s legislative prayer cases do not give legislatures carte blanche to prefer some religions over others, and religion over non-religion,” said Monica Miller, Senior Counsel for the American Humanist Association and lead counsel on the AHA’s legislative prayer case in Carroll Co

Contact: Sarah Henry, (202) 238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.com Monica Miller, (202) 238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.com (Washington, D.C., August 21, 2018) – Today, the Satanic Temple filed a reply in support of its motion to intervene in the American Humanist Association’s ongoing lawsuit challenging the Ten Commandments monument on Arkansas state capitol grounds. In May 2018, the American Humanist Association (AHA), together with other secular civil rights groups and local citizens, filed suit in Arkansas federal court, seeking to remove this religious monument from public grounds at the state capitol. Late last week, the Satanic Temple protested the unconstitutional religious monume

For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, (202) 238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, (202) 238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Washington D.C., August 15, 2018) – Today, attorneys for the American Humanist Association (AHA) filed an opposition to the City of Ocala’s motion to vacate the U.S. District Court’s May 2018 ruling in the AHA’s favor. That decision held that a prayer vigil led by city and police department officials violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The court awarded plaintiffs nominal damages for the deprivation of their constitutional rights, making clear that city officials “cannot initiate, organize, sponsor, or conduct a community p

For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, 202-238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, 202-238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Washington, D.C.) – Attorneys at the American Humanist Association (AHA) urge the U.S. District Court of South Carolina to put an end to the Greenville County School District’s decades-long practice of including prayers in graduation ceremonies in a legal memorandum filed today, at 6:05pm. “The school district’s practice of subjecting captive student audiences to prayers at graduation ceremonies forces nonreligious students to choose between attending one of life’s most significant occasions and forgoing it only to avoid the pressures of participati

For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, 202-238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, 202-238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Washington, D.C., August 8, 2018) – Today, American Humanist Association (AHA) attorneys filed their reply brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a lawsuit challenging the Nevada Department of Corrections’ discrimination against humanist inmates. “It’s past time for Nevada to treat humanist inmates equally, regardless of their belief or lack thereof in the supernatural. The Department of Corrections’ actions violate a fundamental American value: freedom of religion,” asserts AHA executive director Roy Speckhardt. In October 2016, the AHA fil

For Immediate Release Contact: Sarah Henry, 202-238-9088, shenry@americanhumanist.org Monica Miller, 202-238-9088, mmiller@americanhumanist.org (Washington, D.C., August 2, 2018)—The American Humanist Association (AHA) filed its brief in the United States Supreme Court opposing the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission’s (“Commission”) Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the Bladensburg Cross case. Following oral arguments presented by AHA’s Senior Counsel Monica Miller in 2016, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2017 that the 40-foot-tall Christian cross towering over a heavily-trafficked highway intersection violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment