The Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed a strong brief before an appeals court to ensure an end to the Pennsylvania House’s discrimination against nonbelievers.

After Pennsylvania House officials systematically denied freethinkers an opportunity to offer invocations before the legislative body, a number of nonreligious citizens won a resounding victory in federal court last August. The House appealed the decision to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and FFRF has submitted a friends-of-the-court (amicus) brief in support of the Pennsylvania nonbelievers.

Constitutional protections under the Establishment Clause are not limited to preferred religious groups, FFRF asserts in its brief. Both the U.S. Supreme Court and the Framers of the Constitution recognized that nonbelievers have the same constitutional protections as believers.

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