FFRF Action Fund’s “Theocrat of the Week” is Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., for co-sponsoring a resolution with theocratic underpinnings to establish a “Religious Education Week.”
Last week, Tuberville and 26 other Republican senators introduced a resolution intending to designate Oct. 5-11, 2025, as “Religious Education Week” to “celebrate the importance of religion in the United States” and to recognize the schools and churches offering religious education across the country.
“As Republicans, we believe that parents, not the government, should be in charge of a child’s education,” Tuberville said in a press release. “Our country was rooted in Judeo-Christian values, and private religious schools are a great option for many Alabamians.”
Tuberville continued, professing, “There’s a myth out there that our Founders wanted to keep God out of the public square. That just isn’t true. This country was built on love of God, love of country, and love of family.”
The press release delineated that, as chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Education and the American Family, Tuberville is a proponent for school choice and “believes that we should not have a one-size-fits-all approach to education.”
The resolution argues that “religious education is useful for self-development” and “asks students to consider and respond to questions concerning the meaning and purpose of life, engages students in questions about morality and justice, and enables students to identify their values.”
Alongside designating a “Religious Education Week,” the resolution calls on the Senate to affirm the importance of religious education in civic and moral development, celebrate the schools that partake in religious instruction and require all U.S. states to accommodate those who want to be released from public school to attend religious courses, whether through sectarian schools or released time programs. Tuberville co-sponsored the same resolution in both 2024 and 2023.
Read the full resolution here.
FFRF Action Fund condemns Tuberville’s false claims that the United States was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and the “love of God,” as well as his disregard for our secular democracy and public schools that serve students of all religions and nonreligion. Religious education is not a requirement for civic and moral development, and whether a student receives religious education should be a decision left to families, not public schools.
FFRF Action Fund is a 501(c)(4) organization that develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church. It also advocates for the rights and views of nonbelievers, endorses candidates for political office, and publicizes the views of elected officials concerning religious liberty issues.