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The Secular Coalition for America addresses issues arising out of the inappropriate incursion of religion into public policy, such as government funding of religious ministries ( the " Faith Based Initiative " or " charitable choice "); tuition vouchers for religious schools ; federally funded abstinence-only sex education ; limits to embryonic stem cell research ; Constitutional marriage protection amendments ; access to birth control and emergency contraception ; the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ; and the Pledge Protection Act as well as other court-stripping measures.
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Dennett is a firm atheist and secularist, a member of the Secular Coalition for America advisory board, as well as an outspoken supporter of the Brights movement.
* Secular Coalition for America – 30 % on 2006 scorecards < ref name =" SCA ">
Another secularist organization is the Secular Coalition for America.
The Secular Coalition for America lobbies and advocates for separation of church and state as well as the acceptance and inclusion of Secular Americans in American life and public policy.
While Secular Coalition for America is linked to many secular humanistic organizations and many secular humanists support it, as with the Secular Society, some non-humanists support it.
Pinker has served on the editorial boards of journals such as Cognition, Daedalus, and PLOS One, and on the advisory boards of institutions for scientific research ( e. g., the Paul Allen Institute for Brain Science ), free speech ( e. g., the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ), the popularization of science ( e. g., the World Science Festival and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ), peace ( e. g., the Peace Research Endowment ), and secular humanism ( e. g., the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the Secular Coalition of America
* Secular Coalition for America
* Sean Faircloth ( 1986 ) – Majority Whip Maine House, Executive Director Secular Coalition for America
He also serves on the Advisory Board of Secular Coalition for America.
Sweeney serves on the Advisory Board of the Secular Coalition for America.
* Advisory board biography for the Secular Coalition for America
The Society participates in both the Jewish and the Humanist worlds as a Hillel partner, a participant in the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America and as a member of the Secular Coalition for America.
He is on the Advisory Board of the Secular Student Alliance and the Secular Coalition for America.
* Secular Coalition for America
Pigliucci serves on the board of NYC Skeptics and on the advisory board of the Secular Coalition for America.
Based on this approach, the Institute became a founding member of the Secular Coalition for America.
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The Secular Coalition for America is an advocacy group located in Washington D. C., representing atheists, humanists, freethinkers, agnostics, and other non-theistic people with a naturalistic worldview in American politics.
The Secular Coalition works to increase visibility and respect for nontheistic viewpoints in the United States and to protect and strengthen the secular character of the U. S. government.
The mission of the Secular Coalition for America is to increase the visibility, amplify the diversity of, and respect for, the growing voice of the nontheistic community in the United States, and to protect and strengthen the secular character of government as the best guarantee of freedom for all.
The Secular Coalition for America was founded in 2002 with a melding of four U. S. secular organizations: Atheist Alliance International, the Institute for Humanist Studies, the Secular Student Alliance, and the Secular Web.
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Secular and spiritual authority were not distinct categories for Alfred.
* Distributism as a means of achieving third way economics, a paper for the Secular Party of Australia written by Richard Howard of the Humanist Society of New South Wales
" A Trojan Horse: Logotherapeutic Transcendence and its Secular Implications for Theology ".
* Secular dates for passover
Secular music included songs for one or many voices, forms such as the frottola, chanson and madrigal.
Secular use of " Sabbath " for " rest day ", while it usually refers to Sunday, is often stated in North America to refer to different purposes for the rest day than those of Christendom.
Groups such as the National Secular Society ( United Kingdom ) and Americans United campaign for secularism are often supported by Humanists.
Secular spirituality emphasizes humanistic ideas on moral character ( qualities such as love, compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, responsibility, harmony, and a concern for others )-aspects of life and human experience which go beyond a purely materialist view of the world without necessarily accepting belief in a supernatural reality or divine being.
The release in 1980 of A Secular Humanist Declaration by the newly formed Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism ( CODESH, now the Council for Secular Humanism ) gave secular humanism an organisational identity within the United States.
According to the Council for Secular Humanism, within the United States, the term " secular humanism " describes a world view with the following elements and principles:
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* Pious and Secular America ( 1958 ) ISBN 0-678-02756-0
Wine served as the rabbi of the Birmingham Temple until his retirement in 2003, at which time he began devoting most of his efforts to his work as Dean for North America and Provost of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism as well as to lecturing on a wide range of topics under the auspices of the Center for New Thinking, which he had founded in 1976.
* Damon Linker The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege 2006.
* Heidi Swarts, Organizing Urban America: Secular and Faith Based Progressive Movements ( Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008 ).
* Wildmon, D. ( 2009 ) Speechless: Silencing the Christians: How Secular Liberals and Homosexual Activists are Outlawing Christianity ( and Judaism ) to Force Their Sexual Agenda on America.
In North America, the secular and cultural Jewish movements are divided into three umbrella organizations: the Society for Humanistic Judaism ( SHJ ), the Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations ( CSJO ), and Workmen's Circle.
Secular and issues
Secular perennialists espouse the idea that education should focus on the historical development of a continually developing common western base of human knowledge and art, the timeless value of classic thought on central human issues by landmark thinkers, and revolutionary ideas critical to historical western paradigm shifts or changes in world view.
Secular educational policy has become critical in recent issues of French multiculturalism, as in the " affair of the Islamic headscarf ".
However, on social issues, such as same-sex marriage, separation of church and state, abortion, public decency, obscenity laws and narcotic regulation, a large percentage of the Secular Right tends to favor deregulation of some or all of these practices, although may not necessarily agree with said practices.
Secular and arising
Secular scholars see the discrepancy between the traditional and secular date of the destruction of the First Temple arising as a result of Jewish sages missing out the reign lengths of several Persian kings during the Persian Empire's rule over Israel.
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