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#religiousfreedom

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Leah kvetches all the time

From Americans United for Separation of Church and State:

"We’ve announced our third keynote speaker for the upcoming Summit for Religious Freedom on April 5-7, 2025!

You can also check out our full list of sessions, panels and speakers – as well as social activities and opportunities to meet experts, authors and other advocates in the movement.

We hope you’ll join us, either in person or virtually, for this exciting event!"

Take a look at the selection of top-notch breakout sessions and their engaging speakers who form a core part of the program.

More info and Registration: eventspecialists.swoogo.com/sr

Summit for Religious Freedom April 5 to 7, 2025 thesrf.org Keynote Speakers April Ajoy is the author of Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding a True Faith. April is also a content creator and podcast host who uses humor to expose the dangers of Christian Nationalism while promoting true religious freedom. After growing up an evangelist’s kid entrenched in Christian Nationalism and working in conservative Christian media, she saw the harm caused firsthand. April has been featured on Buzzfeed, CNN, Newsweek and more. She will join American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and author and professor Jemar Tisby as our featured speakers. Our keynote sessions are just a small sampling of the variety of top-notch programming we are offering at SRF, and will be available to both people attending in person and virtually. Tickets are going fast – but there’s still time to register!
#Mazeldon#ReligiousFreedom#FreedomOfReligion
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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

   In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
   The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world.
   The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.
   The third is freedom from want — which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world.
   The fourth is freedom from fear — which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world.
   That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1941-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union), “Four Freedoms,” Washington, D. C.

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote#quotes#quotation
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Leah kvetches all the time

Be sure you don’t miss your chance to join us for a free virtual webinar this Wednesday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. ET: “Trump’s First 45 Days: Hope in Action for Rights & Religious Freedom.”

Register: mobilize.us/srf/event/755521/

Even if you can’t attend the webinar live, you can still RSVP to receive a recording of the discussion afterward.

Hope to see you there!
Adriyanna Andrèus
Conference & Partnerships Manager

P.S. If you are an Americans United member, check your email inbox for information about an additional members-only discount to attend SRF or email membership@au.org.

Trump's First 45 Days: Hope in Action for Rights & Religious Freedom March 5 at 7:30 PM ET Presented by SFR365 Summit for Religious Freedom This webinar will feature a stellar group of panelists, including: Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, Executive Director at Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) Antonio L. Ingram II, Senior Counsel for NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Fish Stark, Executive Director at the American Humanist Association (AHA) Moderator Alessandro Terenzoni, AU VP of Public Policy Together, they will discuss what’s happened during the first 45 days of the second Trump Administration, how its policies are impacting church-state separation and the issues that depend on it, and highlight how Americans United and our allies are fighting back.
#ReligiousFreedom#FreedomOfReligion#SeparationOfChurchAndState
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Richelle Sparrow

Why is #religiousfreedom always framed in the negative?

Enacted laws only protect people whose beliefs disallow certain actions. They are not worded to protect people whose faith allows, or even requires, the identical activities.

Consider #abortion and #lgbt issues. The State will legislate against them, based upon one religious dogma, but yet ignore an another faith's interpretations on the same matters.

Are appeals to religious nondiscrimination a lie?

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Leah kvetches all the time

Ways to continue to support reproductive freedom...

Sign the NCJW Pledge to keep fighting: jewsforabortionaccess.org/acti

Get a jump-start on Abortion Care Provider Appreciation Day coming up on March 10: jewsforabortionaccess.org/acti

Donate to the Jewish Fund for Abortion Access: ncjw.org/act/action/reprodonat

Looking forward to making noise with you!

Shira Zemel
Abortion Access Campaign Director
National Council of Jewish Women

Repro Shabbat National Council of Jewish Women Thank you for participating! Thank you for being part of Repro Shabbat 2025! Nearly 2,500 Repro Shabbat observances happened this past weekend — some as community-wide events and others around Shabbat dinner tables, all sending a resounding message: Reproductive freedom is a Jewish value! The fight to reclaim reproductive freedom in this country is a marathon, not a sprint. With your continued support, we aim to help more people move from education to action. Here are some ways you can take action now: Pledge to recommit to reproductive freedom. Hostile lawmakers continue to intensify their attacks on our health care while attempting new strategies to strip away our bodily autonomy and dismantle our personal freedoms. Now, more than ever, we must raise our Jewish voices in support of abortion because of religion, not in spite of it. Join NCJW to pledge your support for reproductive freedom. Get a jumpstart on Abortion Care Provider Appreciation Day coming up on March 10. Show your local abortion providers some love for their dedication, compassion, resilience, and courage using our print-at-home postcards. You can also buy pre-printed postcards from the NCJW shop. Donate to the Jewish Fund for Abortion Access. The Jewish Fund continues to make a collective impact and is the best way to give Jewishly for abortion access. Looking forward to making noise with you! Shira Zemel Abortion Access Campaign Director
#Mazeldon#Jewniverse#JewishWomen
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Miss Gayle

People with a 3rd grade understanding of biology should not be making laws about people's gender & sexual orientation.

People who think bronze age fairy tales are an accurate description of how the world works should absolutely not be making laws about people's gender & sexual orientation.

Hating & persecuting people b/c of scientifically false fairy tales is deranged.

George Dinwiddie @gdinwiddie@mastodon.social Once more, for those in the back not paying attention. “It’s a scientific fact that humans come in two varieties: XX for female and XY for male.” Except * You can be born appearing female, but have a 5-alpha reductase deficiency and grow a penis at age 12. * You can be born legally male with an X and a Ychromosome, but your body is insensitive to androgens, and you appear female. * You can be born legally male with an X and a Y chromosome, and have a penis and testes, *and* a uterus and fallopian tubes. * You can be born legally male with an X and a Y chromosome, but your chromosome is missing the SRY gene, which gives you a female body. * You can be born legally female with two X chromosomes, but one of the Xs has an SRY gene, which gives you a male body. * You can be born legally female with two X chromosomes — and also a Y chromosome, which gives you a male body. * You can be born legally female with two X chromosomes, but your adrenal gland doesn't produce enough cortisol, and your body develops as a male. * You can be born with XX chromosomes — *and* XY chromosomes (chimerism). So the next time you attempt to use science as justification for your bigotry, remember that God created humans in many variations, and maybe stop trying to stuff everyone into little “male or female” checkboxes.
#LGBTQ#CivilRights#HumanRights
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Leah kvetches all the time

This webinar is part of AU’s ongoing SRF365 webinar series and just one example of the dynamic programming attendees can expect at our annual Summit for Religious Freedom (SRF) on April 5-7, 2025, in person in the Greater Washington, D.C., area, and virtually.

So register now for our free SRF365 webinar on March 5, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. ET and learn more about how you can support AU’s fight for church-state separation, inclusive religious freedom and our democracy. Then take the next step by visiting theSRF.org to register for the Summit for Religious Freedom.

Last year’s event sold out, so act fast! Members will receive discounted tix.

Register: mobilize.us/srf/event/755521/

Forward together!

Brian Silva
Vice President, Outreach

Summit for Religious Freedom Americans United for Separation of Church and State We invite you to RSVP today to join us Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. ET for a free, virtual webinar on “Trump’s First 45 Days: Hope in Action for Rights & Religious Freedom.” Our expert group of panelists will dive into what’s happened during the first 45 days of the second Trump Administration and how its policies are impacting church-state separation and the issues that depend on it including racial equity, civil liberties, and LGBTQ+ rights – especially for transgender people. They will also highlight how Americans United and our allies are fighting back. Panelists include: Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, Executive Director at Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) Antonio L. Ingram II, Senior Counsel for NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) Fish Stark, Executive Director at the American Humanist Association (AHA) Moderator Alessandro Terenzoni, AU VP of Public Policy
#ReligiousFreedom#FreedomOfReligion#ChristianNationalism
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William Lindsey :toad:

"In his bombastic proclamations, Trump repeatedly asserts, incorrectly, that Christian identity and opposition to abortion and LGBTQ rights are synonymous. But today, such an equation is true for only a small fraction of America’s major religious groups—principally white evangelical Protestants and Latino Protestants (who also predominantly identify racially as white and theologically as evangelical)."

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #ReligiousFreedom #abortion #LGBTQ
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