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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

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…

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.

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?

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

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.

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

Continued thread

"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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