IOWA ATHEISTS AND FREETHINKERS TO PROTEST THE FAMILY LEADER AND CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM

Des Moines, IA - Central Iowa based organization Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers will be protesting the Family Leader Summit outside of Veterans Auditorium on July 12th, 2024 in opposition to Christian Nationalism. The protest will begin at 4: PM and is open to the public.

IAF has long been ringing the alarm bells about the threat of Christian Nationalism and will stand in opposition to some of its largest proponents in the state as they hold a summit in Des Moines. The rights of all Iowans are precious and the well being of our democracy depends on a strict wall between church and state, a wall that is explicitly under attack. Only a secular democracy can protect the rights of ALL Iowans, regardless of faith or lack there of, and this Christian Nationalist event seeks to undermine that democracy.

With the rise of Christian nationalism in the United States, as seen explicitly on January 6th 2021, and more recently in the state legislature using religious arguments to justify targeting LGBTQ Iowans, removing the rights of Iowans to their own bodily autonomy, and funneling public funds to sectarian religious institutions, IAF intends to remind the public that church and state are to remain separate. In order to have freedom OF religion, one must have freedom FROM religion and not be compelled to support or fund any faith with public tax dollars.

Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers, Inc. (IAF) is a non-profit social and educational group based in Des Moines, Iowa, dedicated to supporting local atheists, freethinkers, secular humanists, agnostics, and other non-religious people. IAF is a warm and welcoming community of humanists, atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, and non-theists of all types.

Jason Benell

President

Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers

iowaatheists.org