Society, Issues, Church-State Relations, Pro-Separation

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• - Articles on Church / State separation from Secular Web Library.
  
• - 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.
  
• - An essay presenting Biblically-based reasoning for keeping the spiritual and civil realms separate.
  
• - Heinlein wrote 'one man's religion is another man's belly laugh' Perhaps, but this one isn't funny.
  
• - Founded in 1947, AU brings together Americans of many faiths and political viewpoints to defend church-state separation.
  
• - An online petition to oppose Political Islam, its agenda, and its barbaric interpretation of Sharia law.
  
• - 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.
  
• - An eleven-part editorial covering rights, law, personal conduct and the difference between "sin" and crime.
  
• - Argues that separation benefits both church and state.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Dedicated to the separation of religion and government. Focuses primarily on constitutionally questionable actions by, or on behalf of, small religious movements.
  
• - Re-publication of a popular church/state site formerly housed at the University of Louisville.
  
• - 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
  
• - 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.
  
• - Webring hosted by the Internet Infidels for pages promoting the separation of church and state.
  
• - A site dedicated to countering the creeping menace of religion in American politics.
  
• - Defending the First Amendment principle that government must never, by intent or consequence, promote religion or demonstrate any preference for one religion over another.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Features a number of original publications, a history of religious liberty and of religion in public life, and commentary on recent news items.
  
• - Updates on religious liberties issues from the American Civil Liberties Union.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Asserts how and why the USA is now backsliding onto the slippery slope of incremental theocracy.
  
• - Advocates a stamp to place a slashed circle over the word "god" on US coins.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A petition for the U.S. treasury to take out "In God We Trust" on US money.
  
• - Compares elements of the American Christian Right to the Spanish Inquisition.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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
  
• - Discusses the legal, historical and political/social evidence in support of church-state separation.
  
• - 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.