The Secular Coalition for Alabama urges Governor Robert Bentley to reject Governor Perry’s call to prayer.  Declaring that “some problems are beyond our power to solve,” Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) is asking his 49 fellow governors to join him at an evangelical Christian prayer meeting in Houston to “call upon Jesus to guide us” and ask for “God’s forgiveness, wisdom and provision.”

Atheists and Christians will square off on Monday, April 4, at 7:00 PM, to debate the question "Did Jesus Rise From The Dead?" The debate will take place at Cedar Grove Baptist Church, 2021 Cedar Grove Road, in Leeds, Alabama.

The State of Alabama can easily be classified as ground zero for numerous conflicts regarding issues relating to the separation of church and state.  From Governor Guy Hunt’s use of state resources for his religious events and Judge Roy Moore’s insistence on a Ten Commandments monument to the religiously divisive comments recently made by newly inaugurated Governor Robert Bentley, the separation of church and state in Alabama is constantly under fire from religious incursion.

The statements made by Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church on January 17, 2011 leave secular Alabamians to question the governor's ability to govern impartially and without religious bias.  His statements underscore the need to form a Secular Coalition for Alabama to preserve the separation of church and state and protect the civil rights of all Alabamians regardless of religious preference. The proposed Secular Coalition for Alabama will be the second State affiliate for the Secular Coalition for America. Last year, the Secular Coalition for Arizona became the first.

In a clear violation of the separation of church and state, today House Speaker John Boehner and Senator Joe Lieberman announced their plans to reopen Washington, D.C.’s voucher program to new students, allowing private religious schools to receive thousands of U.S. taxpayer dollars and to continue to discriminate in hiring and enrollment on the basis of religious preference.