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Watch an engaging discussion on Project 2025
The authoritarian playbook outlined in Project 2025 presents a profound threat to American democracy and religious freedom. It has received widespread media attention and was a topic of discussion during the one presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. To defeat Project 2025, we first have to understand it. We hosted a webinar on October 21, which you can now watch on demand.
This webinar features one of the nation’s foremost experts on Project 2025: Democracy Forward President and Interfaith Alliance Board Member Skye Perryman. Democracy Forward published the People’s Guide to Project 2025. She’s joined by Interfaith Alliance’s Senior Director of Policy & Advocacy Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, who was the first person to draw attention to the theocratic elements of Project 2025.
In addition to opposing Project 2025, we also need to offer an alternative vision. Interfaith Alliance calls our vision Promise 2025. Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, Interfaith Alliance’s President and CEO, discusses the need to advance a multi-racial, multi-religious democracy.
A Victory for Religious Freedom and Public Education
The Senate Parliamentarian just struck a major blow to efforts to undermine public education and erode the separation of religion and government. The proposed national school voucher program, modeled on the so-called Educational Choice for Children Act, has been removed from the Senate’s budget reconciliation package after being ruled in violation of the Byrd Rule.
National Faith Coalition Stands Up for Reproductive and Religious Freedom
Last week, Interfaith Alliance proudly joined the launch of Faithful Majority for Reproductive Freedom, the first national faith-based coalition dedicated to advancing reproductive and religious freedom. This coalition unites diverse faith organizations committed to challenging the harmful falsehood that religion opposes reproductive health care.
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling Against Louisiana’s Ten Commandments Law is a Big Win for Religious Freedom
Interfaith Alliance, a leading advocate for healthy boundaries between religion and government, welcomed the ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that prevents Louisiana from enforcing its unconstitutional law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments. Interfaith Alliance was one of 19 religious organizations that co-signed a friend-of-the-court brief in the case.