SecularAZ
@secularaz.bsky.social
Since 2010, Secular AZ has protected the constitutional separation of church and state. We are a 501c3 that educates lawmakers and the public to ensure freedom of conscience for Arizonans of all faiths and of none. https://linktr.ee/secularaz
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It's the most wonderful time of the year — the annual War on Christmasᵀᴹ, when grifters get to do performative outrage and victim cosplay over imagined slights. Yay!?!
Celebrate the Most Magical of Seasonsᵀᴹ by singing this festive song with us... feel free to add your own verses!
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Celebrate the Most Magical of Seasonsᵀᴹ by singing this festive song with us... feel free to add your own verses!
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On the 14th day of the War on Christmas™ my true love gave to me….
…a crunchy, spicy babyyyyyyyy
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…a crunchy, spicy babyyyyyyyy
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December 14, 2025 at 11:35 PM
On the 14th day of the War on Christmas™ my true love gave to me….
…a crunchy, spicy babyyyyyyyy
15/?
…a crunchy, spicy babyyyyyyyy
15/?
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I've seen a lot of headlines suggesting that there's a religious "revival." Especially among young people—and young men in particular.
The numbers tell a very different story.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/america-is...
The numbers tell a very different story.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/america-is...
America isn't in the midst of a religious revival—and the numbers prove it
A statistical analysis reveals no resurgence of faith, even as conservative Christians wield unprecedented political power
www.friendlyatheist.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Supremacy at work: “There's no cost I can think of to employing a more accessible font—none, that is, other than the cost of acknowledging other people's stories.”
I began answering the common question "How do we stop abuse without becoming abusive ourselves?"
Point 1: "What is it about stopping abuse that you think puts us in such danger of becoming abusive that it is the first question you ask in response to the call to do so?"
www.the-reframe.com/f/
Point 1: "What is it about stopping abuse that you think puts us in such danger of becoming abusive that it is the first question you ask in response to the call to do so?"
www.the-reframe.com/f/
Stories We Tell
Recognizing victims and villains is not creating victims and villains. A series on living in a culture of repair, against a culture of abuse.
www.the-reframe.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Supremacy at work: “There's no cost I can think of to employing a more accessible font—none, that is, other than the cost of acknowledging other people's stories.”
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Phoenix, Arizona
Turning Point USA PROTEST!!
Saturday, December 20
Turning Point USA PROTEST!!
Saturday, December 20
#SpeakOut
#RISEUP
#Arizona
Phoenix Arizona
Turning Point USA PROTEST!
Saturday, December 20
8am – 12pm MST
Phoenix Convention Center
100 N 3rd St
Phoenix, AZ 85004
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
#RISEUP
#Arizona
Phoenix Arizona
Turning Point USA PROTEST!
Saturday, December 20
8am – 12pm MST
Phoenix Convention Center
100 N 3rd St
Phoenix, AZ 85004
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Turning Point USA PROTEST! · Mobilize
Turning Point is a domestic terrorist organization, recruiting & run by criminals. Criminals that are getting arrested in record numbers for things like Election Fraud. They are NOT a Christian organi...
www.mobilize.us
December 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Phoenix, Arizona
Turning Point USA PROTEST!!
Saturday, December 20
Turning Point USA PROTEST!!
Saturday, December 20
Happy Ice Cream Day to all who celebrate
December 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Happy Ice Cream Day to all who celebrate
Starting at noon (MST) today: Join us for a conversation with Rich Logis of @leavingmaga.org
Got MAGA friends/family that you just don't know how to reach? This discussion's for you!
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Got MAGA friends/family that you just don't know how to reach? This discussion's for you!
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Secular Speaker Series: Secular AZ Weekly Update. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us at noon (AZT) for a discussion of issues impacting church/state separation and more.
12/12: Leaving MAGA w/ Rich Logis
12/19: Science Friday! Dr. Neil Shubin, "Ends of the Earth: Journeys t...
us02web.zoom.us
December 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Starting at noon (MST) today: Join us for a conversation with Rich Logis of @leavingmaga.org
Got MAGA friends/family that you just don't know how to reach? This discussion's for you!
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Got MAGA friends/family that you just don't know how to reach? This discussion's for you!
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Vile, disturbing new photos of Donald Trump that raise even more question about knowledge of abuses at Epstein's estate.
@oversightdemocrats.house.gov are demanding the DOJ comply with our subpoena and release the full Epstein files. Stop protecting pedophiles. Survivors deserve justice now.
@oversightdemocrats.house.gov are demanding the DOJ comply with our subpoena and release the full Epstein files. Stop protecting pedophiles. Survivors deserve justice now.
December 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Vile, disturbing new photos of Donald Trump that raise even more question about knowledge of abuses at Epstein's estate.
@oversightdemocrats.house.gov are demanding the DOJ comply with our subpoena and release the full Epstein files. Stop protecting pedophiles. Survivors deserve justice now.
@oversightdemocrats.house.gov are demanding the DOJ comply with our subpoena and release the full Epstein files. Stop protecting pedophiles. Survivors deserve justice now.
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A prayer service made possible by Trump’s Christian nationalist agenda for the federal government.
Sobering story by @juliannemcshane.bsky.social
www.ms.now/news/the-lab...
Sobering story by @juliannemcshane.bsky.social
www.ms.now/news/the-lab...
The Labor Department just held a prayer service for employees
The event went ahead despite warnings that it would violate the Establishment Clause of the Constitution, which separates church and state. The agency said it was voluntary.
www.ms.now
December 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
A prayer service made possible by Trump’s Christian nationalist agenda for the federal government.
Sobering story by @juliannemcshane.bsky.social
www.ms.now/news/the-lab...
Sobering story by @juliannemcshane.bsky.social
www.ms.now/news/the-lab...
Got questions about the #Arizona State Legislature? We did - like what's a hopper and how do bills get into it before the Legislative Session even starts? We asked Legal Director Dianne Post for answers!
youtu.be/BrNelFYOLm4
#secularaz #politics #congress #senate #publicpolicy
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#secularaz #politics #congress #senate #publicpolicy
What's a Hopper? Secular AZ Explains the Bill Filing Process at the Arizona State Legislature
YouTube video by Secular AZ
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December 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Got questions about the #Arizona State Legislature? We did - like what's a hopper and how do bills get into it before the Legislative Session even starts? We asked Legal Director Dianne Post for answers!
youtu.be/BrNelFYOLm4
#secularaz #politics #congress #senate #publicpolicy
youtu.be/BrNelFYOLm4
#secularaz #politics #congress #senate #publicpolicy
Pie is woke?! Join us on December 27 at the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix for the second annual Festival of Pies! Because a slice keeps our secular democracy nice.... RSVP/details at secularaz.org/pie-fest-2025
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Pie is woke?! Join us on December 27 at the Humanist Society of Greater Phoenix for the second annual Festival of Pies! Because a slice keeps our secular democracy nice.... RSVP/details at secularaz.org/pie-fest-2025
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Mark Ivanyo was a VIP guest at white nationalist Nick Fuentes 2024 America First Political Action Conference. Republicans for National Renewal also has other white nationalist ties. The event is also being put on in part by one of the YR groups connected to that leaked racist group chat.
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Mark Ivanyo was a VIP guest at white nationalist Nick Fuentes 2024 America First Political Action Conference. Republicans for National Renewal also has other white nationalist ties. The event is also being put on in part by one of the YR groups connected to that leaked racist group chat.
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The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Washington Post editorial board really speaking truth to power
December 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The titular wokeness being rolled back is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: HEY DO YOU WANT SUMMA
PRIEST: *sigh* Some of what.
SKULL: SUMMA DEEZ NUTZ
PRIEST:
SKULL: OH COME ON THAT WAS HILARIOUS
SKULL: YOU LOVED IT
PRIEST: It was tired and childish.
SKULL: A PERSON BELITTLES HIMSELF BY FORSAKING THE TRUTH
PRIEST: *sigh* Some of what.
SKULL: SUMMA DEEZ NUTZ
PRIEST:
SKULL: OH COME ON THAT WAS HILARIOUS
SKULL: YOU LOVED IT
PRIEST: It was tired and childish.
SKULL: A PERSON BELITTLES HIMSELF BY FORSAKING THE TRUTH
December 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: HEY DO YOU WANT SUMMA
PRIEST: *sigh* Some of what.
SKULL: SUMMA DEEZ NUTZ
PRIEST:
SKULL: OH COME ON THAT WAS HILARIOUS
SKULL: YOU LOVED IT
PRIEST: It was tired and childish.
SKULL: A PERSON BELITTLES HIMSELF BY FORSAKING THE TRUTH
PRIEST: *sigh* Some of what.
SKULL: SUMMA DEEZ NUTZ
PRIEST:
SKULL: OH COME ON THAT WAS HILARIOUS
SKULL: YOU LOVED IT
PRIEST: It was tired and childish.
SKULL: A PERSON BELITTLES HIMSELF BY FORSAKING THE TRUTH
Hey #FountainHills #Arizona! There's an open call to give invocations to start Town Council meetings. Prayer/explicit religious statements are divisive, unnecessary, and can violate the Establishment Clause... so sign up to give a secular invocation that's constitutional instead! 1/2
Town Accepting Applications to Deliver Invocation at Town Council Meetings
The Town of Fountain Hills is now accepting applications from individuals interested in delivering the invocation at Town Council Regular Meetings for the January through June 2026 schedule.
www.fountainhillsaz.gov
December 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Hey #FountainHills #Arizona! There's an open call to give invocations to start Town Council meetings. Prayer/explicit religious statements are divisive, unnecessary, and can violate the Establishment Clause... so sign up to give a secular invocation that's constitutional instead! 1/2
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation's Mikey Weinstein:
“This is the most egregious example of a church-state violation in the military... It sends an encyclopedia of wrong messages on every possible level, because what it stands for is Christian nationalism.”
“This is the most egregious example of a church-state violation in the military... It sends an encyclopedia of wrong messages on every possible level, because what it stands for is Christian nationalism.”
US Southern Command posts photo of Marine with ‘Jerusalem Cross’ patch trib.al/kcry5J7
US Southern Command posts photo of Marine with ‘Jerusalem Cross’ patch
The command posted a photo of a Marine deployed to the Caribbean sporting a patch that was in violation of the service's uniform regulations.
trib.al
December 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation's Mikey Weinstein:
“This is the most egregious example of a church-state violation in the military... It sends an encyclopedia of wrong messages on every possible level, because what it stands for is Christian nationalism.”
“This is the most egregious example of a church-state violation in the military... It sends an encyclopedia of wrong messages on every possible level, because what it stands for is Christian nationalism.”
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“I thought about my transgender patients and how I would face them,” said HIV physician John Weiser, “knowing that I had erased their existence from CDC.”
This HIV expert refused to censor data then quit the CDC
“I thought about my transgender patients and how I would face them,” said HIV physician John Weiser, “knowing that I had erased their existence from CDC.”
bit.ly
December 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“I thought about my transgender patients and how I would face them,” said HIV physician John Weiser, “knowing that I had erased their existence from CDC.”
This will definitely go well
Phillips' LinkedIn posts about FEMA aren't inspiring confidence: “Specifically, [FEMA] have failed to deliver a comprehensive and detailed plan for working with the faith community,” and “those with a Christ centered approach” respond best to disasters.
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
December 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This will definitely go well
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The US Supreme Court's simple-minded reading of the free exercise clause to give parents an unlimited right to "direct the religious upbringing of their children" does not even anticipate disagreement between the parents, let alone make room for the children to have religious agency.
A child suffered panic attacks after hearing fire-and-brimstone sermons and being told her dad might go to Hell.
A judge stepped in to stop it.
Now the Maine Supreme Court will have to decide what's more important: religion or a child's mental health?
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/will-the-m...
A judge stepped in to stop it.
Now the Maine Supreme Court will have to decide what's more important: religion or a child's mental health?
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/will-the-m...
Will the Maine Supreme Court allow a mother to keep harming her daughter with religion?
Maine's top court will soon decide if psychological harm can affect a custody case if that harm stems from religion
www.friendlyatheist.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The US Supreme Court's simple-minded reading of the free exercise clause to give parents an unlimited right to "direct the religious upbringing of their children" does not even anticipate disagreement between the parents, let alone make room for the children to have religious agency.
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Are young adults experiencing a religious revival? Our data says no. 🧵👇
Full analysis here:
Full analysis here:
Religion Holds Steady in America
Analysis of our polls and other data shows no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults. Read more about religiousness by age and gender.
www.pewresearch.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Are young adults experiencing a religious revival? Our data says no. 🧵👇
Full analysis here:
Full analysis here:
Republican congresswomen say that Johnson “failed to listen to them or engage in direct conversations on major political and policy issues,” which they attribute to his highly patriarchal evangelical Christianity. He’s said that women, unlike men, are unable to “compartmentalize” their thoughts.
Opinion | Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Republican congresswomen say that Johnson “failed to listen to them or engage in direct conversations on major political and policy issues,” which they attribute to his highly patriarchal evangelical Christianity. He’s said that women, unlike men, are unable to “compartmentalize” their thoughts.
Did you miss Secular AZ's discussion with Arizona Families for Vaccines last week? No worries - watch this important presentation about #vaccines, #misinformation and the state o #publichealth in #Arizona on our YouTube channel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbjV...
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Arizona Families for Vaccines
YouTube video by Secular AZ
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December 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Did you miss Secular AZ's discussion with Arizona Families for Vaccines last week? No worries - watch this important presentation about #vaccines, #misinformation and the state o #publichealth in #Arizona on our YouTube channel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbjV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbjV...