Atheist Group's Report Card Flunks Congress, Gives Elizabeth Warren Perfect Score
by Shadee Ashtari
Posted: 04/01/2014 6:08 pm EDT
Updated: 04/01/2014 6:59 pm EDT
The Secular Coalition for America, a non-theistic advocacy group, flunked Congress in its 2013 Congressional Report Card released Monday, which graded lawmakers based on their voting records on issues related to church-state separation and anti-discrimination safeguards.
While 58 percent of Congress as a whole received a failing grade, a larger share of the House of Representatives, 62 percent, received an “F” based on their votes on 14 bills, including the FEMA Funding For Churches resolution and the Military Religious Freedom Protection Act. Thirty-five House members, or 8 percent, received an “A.”
As for the Senate, 43 percent of legislators scored an “F” while 7 percent earned an “A” for their positions on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 and the Freedom to Pray Act.
The report, which also takes into account bill sponsorship, awarded seven senators perfect scores for their secular-friendly voting records, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Al Franken (D-Minn.) for their co-sponsorship of the Real Education for Healthy Youth Act of 2013.
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