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The Secular Coalition for America, which lobbies for the interests of atheists, humanists and freethinkers, has issued its 2011 Congressional Report Card, including a state-by-state grading of lawmakers' decisions on issues of church and state.

The report card scores U.S. Representatives on seven bills of interest to secular humanists, including those proposing the defunding of Planned Parenthood, the acknowledgment that humans cause global warming, and the creation of a special envoy to promote religious freedom of religious minorities in the Near East and South Central Asia.

Of 431 lawmakers, only 17 scored an A, all Democrats; 233 earned an F, all but three of them Republicans. The best showing in Wisconsin? A C: for Democrats Tammy Baldwin, Ron Kind and Gwen Moore. Everybody else, it says, failed.

