In an op-ed featured in the prominent Washington, D.C., newspaper The Hill, Freedom From Religion Foundation Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor fights back against the current administration’s theocratic America 250 narrative with a constitutional history lesson.
“When the federal government organizes and promotes religious observance, it is no longer neutral. It is using the machinery of the state to elevate religion itself and, in practice, a narrow slice of it,” Gaylor writes. “Presidential initiatives like this sideline nonbelievers and non-Christians.”
You can read the full op-ed here.
(Photo of Annie Laurie Gaylor by Chris Line.)
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with over 41,000 members and several chapters across the country. Its purposes are to protect the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
