While the SSA has taken positions on a few political issues, not every SSA member or affiliated campus group agrees with, or need agree with, every position taken. The SSA recognizes and accommodates differences of opinion. Generally, the SSA values individual freedom and civil liberties, while striving to make reason the underpinning of political thought rather than tradition or religious dogma. In terms of specific issues, the SSA has taken stances on several related issues that have been attacked on religious grounds. The SSA supports church-state separation and religious liberty; freedom of speech; global human rights; equal rights for gays and lesbians, women, and minorities; reproductive freedom; and the availability of contraceptives and science based sex education. The SSA has taken a stance against school prayer and graduation prayers; public funding for religious schools; and censorship of literature, the arts, and the media.