Faith Leaders United
A diverse network of faith leaders from across the country dedicated to protecting religious freedom for all people, while also ensuring that religion is not used to harm others.
In a nation divided, we are Faith Leaders United
Religious freedom should never be used as a license to discriminate or deny LGBTQ+ rights, women’s equality, access to health care, or racial justice.
Faith Leaders United is a theologically diverse network of faith leaders—and people of faith who are leaders—from across the country dedicated to safeguarding religious freedom for all people.
We are building a movement to ensure that religious freedom is a shield to protect, not a sword to harm or discriminate!
Faith Leaders United brings together people of all religions
Americans United brings together people of all religions and none to show how church-state separation protects religious freedom for everyone.
Faith Leaders United is a crucial part of our coalition – the voices of clergy and other faith leaders are a powerful, necessary component as we educate the public on the ways church-state separation protects religion as well as individual rights and freedoms.
Faith Leaders United speaks truth to power
Faith Leaders United works with AU and our allies to advocate for church-state separation and religious freedom at the federal, state and local levels of government. Faith leaders have been key members of advocacy campaigns like fighting private school voucher schemes that would funnel public money to private, mostly religious schools; opposing laws that would force coercive religion into public schools; and demanding that religious freedom not be misused as a license to discriminate.
Faith Leaders United challenges religious freedom violations
Americans United has filed lawsuits on behalf of diverse clergy who demonstrate that their religious freedom is violated when church-state separation is ignored. AU has represented faith leaders in several lawsuits, including challenges of Missouri’s abortion ban, Ten Commandments displays in Louisiana public schools, and the attempt to create the nation’s first religious, public school in Oklahoma.
