Azhar Majeed

Dear Friend, In July, we alerted you that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell might insert a Betsy DeVos federally funded private school voucher proposal into must-pass emergency COVID-19 relief legislation. That plan didn’t come to fruition, but the threat to secular, public schooling didn’t go away. Now, as the political parties negotiate the terms of …

The nation is in the grip of a public health emergency, but one Virginia lawmaker is taking cynical advantage of this crisis by using religion to thumb his nose at science-based health care. If you’re in Virginia, you can help fight back by urging your representatives to oppose this bill. Virginia already allows for a …

Dear Friend, They’re not doctors. They’re not medically trained. They don’t adhere to medical science. But if they get their way, they’ll be given the authority to present themselves as “naturopathic doctors” to New Jerseyans. They’re naturopaths, and we need you to stop the state legislature from granting medical legitimacy to these practitioners of pseudoscience. …

Dear Friend, Every nonprofit organization in the United States, including the Center for Inquiry, is required to disclose their finances to the IRS…except churches. They’re exempt. In April, we alerted you that churches can have federal COVID relief loans forgiven—even for direct spending on religious instruction and programming. That means exactly what it sounds like: …

Dear Friend, Last week, we warned you that the Supreme Court’s egregious decision in Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue forces taxpayers to fund religious instruction in private schools throughout their state via school vouchers. Emboldened by this decision, Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump are prepared to jam a federally funded voucher scheme into Congress’s …

Dear Friend, As you know, Colorado is among the forty-five states that have unique, dangerous religious exemptions to immunization requirements for school children. On Sunday, June 7, Colorado’s House Health and Insurance Committee will hold a hearing to consider legislation (Senate Bill 163 [SB20-163]) that strengthens the state’s immunization requirements. While CFI applauds the committee …

On May 18, legislation to allow the licensing of naturopaths (AB 4825) was referred to the New York Assembly’s Committee on Higher Education. If you’re in New York, will you help us stop this bill? Most naturopathic practices are not supported by science or medicine—period. Unlike the medical standards set for practicing physicians, naturopathic licensing …

Dear Friend, As you know, Connecticut is among the forty-five states that have unique, dangerous religious exemptions to immunization requirements for school children. These exemptions are an affront to the separation of church and state—no other excuses are accepted by the states for declining to participate in this easy, effective, lifesaving public health measure (medical …

On May 26, legislation titled the “North Carolina Naturopathic Doctors Licensure Act (SB 846)” was introduced in the North Carolina Senate. This legislation establishes a licensing regime under which naturopaths may practice in North Carolina. Will you help us stop this bill? Most naturopathic practices are not supported by science or medicine—period. Unlike the medical …

Dear Friend of CFI in Louisiana, I’m writing to urge you to tell your state senator to oppose an unnecessary and dangerous piece of legislation that undermines Louisiana’s public health. This legislation has already passed the House and will soon be considered by the Senate Committee on Insurance. House Bill No. 152 (HB 152) requires all …