Secular State Advocacy in the Age of Christian Nationalism

Alison, Rebecca and Monica discuss another tool in our kit to keep religion and government separate: legislative advocacy. Alison, as our resident policy expert, guides us through the many bills that threaten church/state separation wending their ways through state legislatures this year. Background Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) BlitzWatch Relevant Cases Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) Tandon v. Newsom (2021) Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990) City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)   Check us out on Facebook and Twitter. Our website, we-dissent.org, has more information as well as episode transcripts.