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 former Nevada state senator Lori Lipman Brown, who became its first full-time executive director in September of 2005.
The SCA is the first lobbying organization in the United States 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. The SCA advocates that American politics espouse the complete separation of church and state, as it believes is established by the U.S. Constitution. The SCA holds reason and science as its guiding tenets for public policy.
[edit] History
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. The Society for Humanistic Judaism and the Freedom From Religion Foundation joined the SCA coalition in January of 2006. In February of 2007, the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers joined the SCA coalition.
