UNDERNEWS: Serving nontheistic politics

October 8, 2016

Serving nontheistic politics

The Secular Coalition for America is a nonprofit advocacy organization serving the nontheistic community in the United States including atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and other nontheistic Americans.

Among its issues:

Health and Safety: The health and safety of an individual should not be compromised by the religious beliefs of another person or group.
Education: Children should not be subjected to religious education or exercises in our public schools.
Tax Policy: Religious organizations and individuals should not be exempt from the requirements and restrictions of tax policy.
Discrimination: Personal religious beliefs do not justify prejudicial actions that violate discrimination laws.
Government Actions: The government and officials acting in their government capacity, should not endorse religious beliefs, one religion over another or religion over non-religion.
Military: The taxpayer funded U.S. military must serve the beliefs of all service members without privileging one belief over another.
International: Even abroad, U.S. government funds, policies, or actions should not endorse religion.

How does Congress rate for non-theists? Here's SCA's rating of the 2014 Senate:

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ABOUT THE EDITOR

The Review is edited by Sam Smith, who covered Washington under nine presidents, has edited the Progressive Review and its predecessors since 1964, wrote four books, been published in five anthologies, helped to start five organizations (including the DC Humanities Council and the DC Statehood Party), was a plaintiff in three successful class action suits, served as a Coast Guard officer, and played in jazz bands for four decades.

A truly independent journalist with his feet firmly grounded in the reality of neighborhoods and everyday people. -- Patrick Mazza, Progressive Populist

A truly original voice in American journalism: humorous and plain spoken and filled with common sense -- Jay Walljasper, Utne Reader

Inimitable -- Mother Jones Magazine

Sam's a cynical cat -- Marion Barry

Sam's one of the few independent voices left. The press today is either extreme or special interest or else just establishment, an extension of the corporate spirit -- Sen. Eugene McCarthy,

One of a small group of whites with whom many blacks would trust their political lives - Chuck Stone, Washingtonian.

A reputation for wit, intelligence and anger. -- Claude Lewis, Chicago Tribune

Smith is an island of reason and information in a sea of narcissistic blather. -- City Paper, Washington

Whatever the debate, the Review's sharp critiques encourage us to look out our window, notice and act upon what we see, and also to look further -- to the rest of the country and globe -- to see how the organized big world interacts with our more spontaneous small worlds. - Utne Reader