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Home / Society / Issues / Church-State Relations / Pro-Separation
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- 1st Amendment, 2nd Commandment and Textile Worship - Heinlein wrote 'one man's religion is another man's belly laugh' Perhaps, but this one isn't funny.
unquietmind.com/textile.html
- ACLU - Religious Liberties - Updates on religious liberties issues from the American Civil Liberties Union.
www.aclu.org/issues/religion/hmrf.html
- America's Real Religion, by Gene Garman - Provides primary sources for quotations from Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Abraham Lincoln regarding their personal religion and regarding religion's proper relationship to government.
www.sunnetworks.net/~ggarman
- Americans United for Separation of Church and State - Founded in 1947, AU brings together Americans of many faiths and political viewpoints to defend church-state separation.
www.au.org
- Anti-Defamation League - Religious Freedom - Includes information on issues such as the separation of church and state, the Istook Amendment, and religious freedom in the workplace.
www.adl.org/frames/front_religious_freedom.html
- Apathia.org - Seeks to combat the combination of church and state, and keep the Bible out of public schools. Discussion of court issues.
www.apathia.org
- Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, The - The goal of the BJC is to protect, uphold and defend the significant and historical Baptist distinctive of a free church in a free state.
www.bjcpa.org
- Church-State Ring - Webring hosted by the Internet Infidels for pages promoting the separation of church and state.
www.infidels.org/electronic/ring/church-state
- Churchwatch - A site dedicated to countering the creeping menace of religion in American politics.
www.churchwatch.org
- Citizens Project - A grassroots organization in the Pikes Peak [Colorado] region dedicated to upholding the traditional American values of pluralism, freedom of religion and separation of church and state.
www.citizensproject.org
- First Amendment Center - Religion - Features a number of original publications -- including several on religion and the public schools -- and an excellent FAQ.
www.fac.org/religion/religion97.htm
- Freedom Forum - Religion - The Freedom Forum is a nonpartisan, international foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people.
www.freedomforum.org/religion/welcome.asp
- Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. - National organization of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics) in Madison, Wisconsin, working to keep state and church separate and to educate the public about the views of nontheists.
www.ffrf.org
- Hawaii Citizens for the Separation of State and Church - Defending the First Amendment principle that government must never, by intent or consequence, promote religion or demonstrate any preference for one religion over another.
www.lava.net/~hcssc
- Institute for First Amendment Studies - Founded in 1984, focuses on the First Amendment's provision for separation between church and state, and the religious right. All of these church-state issues addressed: reproductive rights, gay and lesbian rights, free speech, public education, or religious liberty.
www.ifas.org
- Institute for First Amendment Studies - News and views focusing on the freedom of religion portion of the First Amemdment of the United States Constitution.
apocalypse.berkshire.net/~ifas
- Jefferson 21st Century Institute - Dedicated to the separation of religion and government. Focuses primarily on constitutionally questionable actions by, or on behalf of, small religious movements.
www.j21c.org
- Keep Religion Away from Politics (KRAP) - A group for protecting separation. News, polls, messageboards, and legal resources.
www.kraporg.org
- Liberty Magazine - Dedicated to the preservation of the separation of church and state with an emphasis on the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the US Constitution. Online version includes archived versions beginning with the May/June 1997 issue.
www.libertymagazine.org
- Mainstream Loudoun - A Voice for Moderation - A group of citizens who wish to preserve religious and personal freedom, to maintain the separation of church and state, and to counter the imposition through public policy of one religious tradition over others.
www.loudoun.net/mainstream
- Mislaid American Rights - An eleven-part editorial covering rights, law, personal conduct and the difference between "sin" and crime.
unquietmind.com/mislaid_i.html
- People For the American Way: Religious Freedom - Social liberal organization opposing the political activities of the religious right in the U.S. and advocating strict separation of church and state. Talking points and position papers on current legislation and events.
www.pfaw.org/issues/religious_freedom
- Pledge Restoration Project - A campaign to remove the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance.
secular.ws/pledge
- Religion vs. Morality - The Ayn Rand Institute's views on separation, with quotes from the founding fathers of the US, and commentary on some related issues such as abortion and evolution.
religion.aynrand.org
- Secular Web, The - Separation of Church and State - Articles on Church / State separation from Secular Web Library.
www.infidels.org/library/modern/church-state
- Separation of Church and State - The Constitutional Principle - Discusses the legal, historical and political/social evidence in support of church-state separation.
members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
- Separation of Church and State Homepage (mirror) - Re-publication of a popular church/state site formerly housed at the University of Louisville.
members.tripod.com/~candst/tnpintro.htm
- Seventh-day Adventist Church State Council - Argues that separation benefits both church and state.
www.freedomsring.com
- The Christian and Politics - An essay presenting Biblically-based reasoning for keeping the spiritual and civil realms separate.
home.earthlink.net/~ddcerkel/christian_politics.html
- Torquemada, the Spanish Inquisition and Today's American Inquisition - Compares elements of the American Christian Right to the Spanish Inquisition.
internettrash.com/users/torquemada
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