The Religious Right Is Fighting a Holy War. Here's Our Plan To Win.

Name: The Religious Right Is Fighting a Holy War. Here's Our Plan To Win.
Start: 2026-04-19T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-19T16:00:00-04:00
Location: University Club of Winter Park

Schedule

Sun Apr 19 2026 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

University Club of Winter Park | Winter Park, FL

The religious right is waging the most aggressive assault on secular values in a generation — defunding public schools, pushing religion into government, and attacking empathy itself as a weakness and a sin. But the picture isn't all bleak. Efforts to force the Bible into public school classrooms are being defeated in court. The AHA just won a major federal case in Florida. The Congressional Freethought Caucus we helped start is now larger than the Freedom Caucus. And from Minneapolis to Biloxi, humanists are showing what is possible when we show up for our communities.
AHA Executive Director Fish Stark will break down the threats the AHA's legal and policy teams are tracking right now, where the most serious attacks on the First Amendment are coming from, and what humanists can do to fight back — in the courts, in Congress, in the culture, and in our communities.
Fish Stark is the Executive Director of the American Humanist Association and a second-generation humanist. Before joining the AHA, he spent his career at the intersection of psychology, education, and social justice — training and funding youth activists in 140+ countries at Peace First, creating children's mental health products as a tech startup executive, and running a mentorship program for kids in the West Virginia coalfields. Fish holds a Master's in child development and psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor's from Yale. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland, where he holds Democratic Party leadership roles and is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Annapolis. He is also an award-winning stand-up comedian, so buckle up.
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