Jamie Raskin
Jamin Ben "Jamie" Raskin (born December 13, 1962) is an American attorney, law professor, and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 8th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Maryland State Senate from 2007 to 2016.[2] The district previously included portions of Montgomery County, a suburban county northwest of Washington, D.C., and extended through rural Frederick County to the Pennsylvania border. Since redistricting in 2022, Raskin's district now encompasses only part of Montgomery County.
Raskin co-chairs the Congressional Freethought Caucus. He was the lead impeachment manager for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump in response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.[3][4] Before his election to Congress, Raskin was a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law, where he co-founded and directed the LL.M. program on law and government and co-founded the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project.
Congressional Freethought Caucus
The Congressional Freethought Caucus is a membership organization in the United States House of Representatives established to promote policy solutions based on reason and science, and to defend the secular character of government. Representatives Jared Huffman and Jamie Raskin have co-chaired the caucus since it formed in April 2018.
The Congressional Freethought Caucus was unveiled by Huffman during the Secular Coalition for America annual awards dinner in Washington, DC.[1] The Secular Coalition for America released a statement applauding the founding members of the caucus: "The formation of a Congressional Freethought Caucus is a milestone moment for nonreligious Americans in our continued struggle for inclusion in the political process and recognition as a constituency. We are living in a time when one-quarter of Americans identify as nonreligious and yet, despite these demographic changes, our community is still disparaged, stigmatized, and underrepresented in elected offices at every level of government. By proudly and unapologetically standing up for the nonreligious, these Members of Congress have struck a powerful blow against the de facto religious test that keeps so many secular Americans from seeking public office."
Secularism
Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion. It is most commonly thought of as the separation of religion from civil affairs and the state and may be broadened to a similar position seeking to remove or to minimize the role of religion in any public sphere.[1] Secularism may encapsulate anti-clericalism, atheism, naturalism, non-sectarianism, neutrality on topics of religion, or antireligion.[2] As a philosophy, secularism seeks to interpret life based on principles derived solely from the material world, without recourse to religion. It shifts the focus from religion towards "temporal" and material concerns.
I have noticed over the years that when the founding fathers penned the phrase, "freedom of religion," the leftists have tried to interpret it as, "freedom FROM religion." This was in no way the intent, quite the opposite in fact. At the time of the founding of this country, many people such as the Quakers and others came here to escape religious persecution in Europe in the form of state MANDATED religions. In other words, the government ENFORCED a specific religious belief, THAT is what the founders were trying to avoid. They did not have a problem with religion itself, they had a problem with being forced INTO a particular religion.
Now, take a look at these, "secular," types of people and think about what they are actually promoting. It's their "religion," secularism. This is one of the reasons that certain areas of science and education in general have been cucked on so many levels. They don't want freedom of religion, they want to ENFORCE their religion on everyone else, just like in old Europe.
Why is it that these clowns can push their own religion with impunity yet anyone that might believe in the bible is "bad?"
Freedom OF religion is NOT the same thing as freedom FROM religion. The state IS NOT ALLOWED to promote one religion over another. It DOES NOT mean that the people are not allowed to practice whatever religion they want.
Atheism IS a religion, a belief system.