Fish here, Executive Director of the American Humanist Association. I wanted to make sure you got the latest update on our biggest fight yet for secular education and the separation of religion and government this year. It is CRITICAL that we do everything we can to STOP the Christian Nationalist voucher proposal that has made its way into the Senate bill. Please take just two minutes to send the message linked below.
HUMANISTS - we URGENTLY NEED you to tell your Senators NOW to reject privatized education and protect secular public education.
One of the most important fights this year continues, and we need your help going all in. The bad news? The Senate has snuck the unprecedented national private school voucher proposal into its budget reconciliation bill, and it is extremely alarming. The good news? We can still defeat it. As a constituent, YOU have the power to sway your Senators’ votes - but we need to act now.
Funneling billions of taxpayer dollars to private, religious schools will do egregious harm to public schools and the millions of families that depend on them. They call it “expanding choice,” but really, it creates more choices for Christians and weakens the public schools that serve EVERY child equally - and teach them more effectively - than private schools. This program would be an absolute disaster for quality public, secular, and accessible education in our country.
Just as the inhumane cuts to Medicaid and the SNAP program in the bill are rightfully getting the attention they deserve, we need you to make sure this effort to use our tax dollars to subsidize religious private schools is getting the same level of scrutiny.
The Senate knows that these policies are unpopular - let’s remind them that their constituents are watching, and that we will hold them accountable.
