Pro-Separation Church-State Relations Issues

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• - A petition for the U.S. treasury to take out "In God We Trust" on US money.
  
• - An online petition to oppose Political Islam, its agenda, and its barbaric interpretation of Sharia law.
  
• - A non-profit, public interest association created to preserve, protect and defend the right to worship as they wish, roll back Religious Right abuses, root out religious and political fraud and corruption, and champion causes which further religious freed
  
• - Webring hosted by the Internet Infidels for pages promoting the separation of church and state.
  
• - Civil libertarian 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.
  
• - An essay presenting Biblically-based reasoning for keeping the spiritual and civil realms separate.
  
• - Asserts that the Religious Right's goal of Christianizing America and all elements of society has nearly been attained through gaining control of the Republican Party and putting an ally in the White House.
  
• - Lists several news events that raise the church-state issue, asks if government should be involved in religious affairs, and comments on the US Constitution.
  
• - A site dedicated to countering the creeping menace of religion in American politics.
  
• - 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 governmen
  
• - 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.
  
• - Updates on religious liberties issues from the American Civil Liberties Union.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Compares elements of the American Christian Right to the Spanish Inquisition.
  
• - Asserts how and why the USA is now backsliding onto the slippery slope of incremental theocracy.
  
• - Discusses the legal, historical and political/social evidence in support of church-state separation.
  
• - Founded in 1947, AU brings together Americans of many faiths and political viewpoints to defend church-state separation.
  
• - Defending the First Amendment principle that government must never, by intent or consequence, promote religion or demonstrate any preference for one religion over another.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Features a number of original publications, a history of religious liberty and of religion in public life, and commentary on recent news items.
  
• - An eleven-part editorial covering rights, law, personal conduct and the difference between "sin" and crime.
  
• - Dedicated to the separation of religion and government. Focuses primarily on constitutionally questionable actions by, or on behalf of, small religious movements.
  
• - Offers essays and a petition to sign.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Re-publication of a popular church/state site formerly housed at the University of Louisville.
  
• - Articles on Church / State separation from Secular Web Library.
  
• - Advocates a stamp to place a slashed circle over the word "god" on US coins.
  
• - Many common myths about the separation of church and state are explained and refuted. Includes misconceptions about court decisions, school prayer, and the US Constitution.
  
• - Heinlein wrote 'one man's religion is another man's belly laugh' Perhaps, but this one isn't funny.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Argues that separation benefits both church and state.
  
• - News headlines, position papers, and other resources on issues such as the separation of church and state, the Istook Amendment, and religious freedom in the workplace.