Virtual Event — November 12, 2025 | 7 PM EST
“Misusing Release Time for Religious Instruction in Public Schools”
Across the country, public schools are being approached by programs like LifeWise Academy that seek to take students out of class during the school day for religious instruction. These programs are often presented as harmless or even beneficial — but the truth is more complicated.
Join Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Secular Education Association for a timely conversation about how “Released Time Religious Instruction” programs impact students, teachers, and communities — and why protecting secular, inclusive education matters for everyone.
🗣 Featured Speakers:
• Ian Smith – Staff Attorney, Americans United
• Molly Gaines – Executive Director, Secular Education Association
• Zachary Parrish – Executive Director of Operations, Secular Education Association
• John Sutton – VP, Kentucky Chapter of Americans United
🎙 Moderated by:
Brian Silva – VP for Outreach, Americans United
📅 Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2025
🕖 Time: 7 PM EST
💻 Location: Virtual (link below)
✨ What You’ll Learn:
• How Released Time Religious Instruction (RTRI) was designed to be a loophole.
• The LifeWise Playbook: recruitment targets, district pressure tactics, data capture pipelines, and how they engineer “opt-in” that feels like no choice at all.
• The Real Impact on Children Who Don’t Attend: social isolation, academic loss, behavioral discipline imbalance, and early identity coercion.
• How This Fits Into a Larger Christian Nationalist Policy Network — including ALEC-backed legislation and coordinated messaging strategies.
• What YOU can do to fight this in your own backyard.
🔗 Register now to join the discussion: https://www.mobilize.us/au/event/866193/
#PublicEducation #ChurchStateSeparation #LifeWise #SecularEducation #AmericansUnited #ProtectOurSchool
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