Secular Coalition for America
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The Secular Coalition for America is a lobbying group representing atheists, secular humanists, and freethinkers in American politics. It is currently represented in Washington, D.C. by Lori Lipman Brown.
The SCA (www.secular.org) is the nation's first lobbying organization that works to increase the visibility and respectability of nontheistic viewpoints in the United States and to protect and strengthen the secular character of the U.S. government as the best guarantee of freedom for all. SCA opposes the general agenda of the Christian right to infuse religious doctrine into American politics, lending its full support to a complete separation of church and state as laid out in the U.S. Constitution,. The SCA holds reason and science as its guiding tenets for public policy.
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The SCA was founded in 2002 as a coalition of four U.S. secular organizations: Atheist Alliance International, the Institute for Humanist Studies, the Secular Student Alliance, and the Secular Web. In 2005 the American Humanist Association became the coalition's fifth member organization.
In September of 2005, the SCA appointed its first full-time executive director, former Nevada state senator Lori Lipman Brown.
In January of 2006, the Society for Humanistic Judaism and the Freedom From Religion Foundation joined the SCA coalition.
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