THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM COALITION OF THE SOUTHEAST PRESENTS: THE ENEMIES (AND FRIENDS) OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

To help the RFCSE expose these frauds and untruthful people, for a donation of $20 or more we will send you a 26+ page professional horoscope. After making the donation, send us your month, year and date of birth, place of birth and time of birth (if known).   All donations are Tax Deductable and you get a professional horoscope!! To Donate by Credit Card click on the Button Below Thank You for Whatever you can do. SEE BELOW FOR 100 REPUBLICAN SCANDALS!!! "It is true, of course, that the phrase 'separation of church and state' does not appear in the Constitution. But it was inevitable that some convenient term should come into existence to verbalize a principle so clearly and widely held by the American people.... [T]he right to a fair trial is generally accepted to be a constitutional principle; yet the term "fair trial" is not found in the Constitution. To bring the point even closer home, who would deny that "religious liberty" is a constitutional principle? Yet that phrase too is not in the Constitution. The universal acceptance which all these terms, including "separation of church and state," have received in America would seem to confirm rather than disparage their reality as basic American democratic principles."..............Leo Pfeffer. Question:  "Separation between Church and State."  Who coined the Phrase?  Give up?  Answer:   Thomas Jefferson - one of the founding fathers of this great Nation and a creator of the U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment to that same Constitution.  Thomas Jefferson, in 1802, wrote a Letter to the Danbury Baptist Convention, referring to the First Amendment to the US Constitution.  In it he said: "Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."   DISCLAIMER:  The "Religious Freedom Coalition of the Southeast" is in no way connected to the Right Wing Christian "Religious Freedom Coalition".  In fact we were organized prior to 1992. Famous Quotes Regarding Freedom Of Religion: "The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine." George Washington "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion ..." from the Treaty of Tripoli, signed by John Adams, June 10, 1797. "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God; that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship; that the legislative powers of the government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should `make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State." Thomas Jefferson, in his historic Danbury letter, January 1, 1802 "Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?"   James Madison, in "Memorial and Remonstrance", 1785 "The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of church and state."  James Madison, March 2, 1819 "Neither a state nor the Federal Government can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups and vice versa. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect 'a wall of separation between Church and State."    The U.S. Supreme Court, 1947 "I am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. ... We must be ever-vigilant against those who would strong-arm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings." - Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- a Republican, conservative-leaning Reagan appointee who helped deliver the White House to the Bush Syndicate in 2000 -- seems to have developed a serious case of conspirator's remorse. AND NOW WE HEAR FROM THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT!!!!! "They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state.  There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left, and we're not going to take it anymore." Pat Robertson, addressing the ACLJ, 1993 "The national government ... will   maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality."  Adolf Hitler, 1938 Suggested Site for those who are moderates of both political parties: http://www.ariannaonline.com TABLE OF CONTENTS GENERAL INFORMATION    Introduction    Purpose   The Enemies of Religious Freedom!!!    The Friends of Religious Freedom!!!!!   Are You Going To Hell?      Why are All the Glaciers Melting?!!!      What is the Truth About Climate Change?!!     Than Shwe - The Worst Person in the World SOME OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FROM THE RIGHT WING AND THEIR SCANDALS      WHO IS JOHN MCCAIN AND WHY IS HE ANOTHER GEORGE "DUBYA" BUSH?      SPECIAL!!! BOOKS BY ALL MAJOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES OF BOTH PARTIES WITH REVIEWS!! ALL ABOUT THE BUSH SCANDALS     The Two Faces of George "Dubya" Bush Page    How George "Dubya" Bush Destroyed Conservatism in America   How George "Dubya" Bush Lost the Iraq "War".    The Collapse of The Bush Foreign Policy   George Bush Thinks History Will Vindicate him...But He Has Become Deluded.   Rumors About George Dubya Bush!!!   The Qualifications of George "Dubya" Bush   The Bush Christian Blood Cult!!     Featured Bush Mistake as of 04/14/2005   Architects of the Iraq "War": Where Are They Now? SOME OF THE MANY SCANDALS OF THOSE THAT FOLLOW THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT       100+ General Republican Scandals!!!       272 Republican Offenders 1998 - 2008       Scandal Number 700 - Vito Fossella ********************************** SCANDALS INVOLVING THE STATE OF ALASKA      What are the Alaska Scandals?     Who is Senator Ted Stevens?      Who is Rep. Don Young? ********************************* SCANDALS INVOLVING NATIONAL SECURITY     Who is Sun Myung Moon?     Who is Karl Rove?     Who is Dick Cheney? ********************************* SCANDALS INVOLVING PUBLIC FIGURES AND SEX, FINANCIAL IMPROPRIETY, OR BLATANT LYING WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT.     Senator Mitch McConnell and His Trip to Dante's Inferno!     Senator Roger Wiker and Dante's Inferno      Click Here For Information About Your Favorite Political Pundit     Who or What is Ann Coulter?     Who is Coy Privett?     Who is Senator David Vitter?     Who is Senator Larry Craig?     Who is Congressman Doug Lamborn?      Who is Haley Barbour? HOW TO SURVIVE WHAT THE NEO-CONSERVATIVES HAVE IN MIND FOR AMERICA.     Surviving the Global Cataclysm. THE RIGHT WING RELIGIOUS RIGHT AND THE MISTAKES THEY HAVE MADE.    The Anatomy of the Religious Right      Senator Gordon Smith     Have "Christian" Fundamentalists lost their Spirituality?     Do "Christian Fundamentals have Bad Policies?     Elizabeth "Liddy" Dole and her Misrepresentation of North Carolina     Fundamentalists and Witchhunts?      Christian Fundamentalist?    United States a Christian Only Nation?    Moslem Right Wing Extremists?    Who are the Real American Traitors?    The Un-Christian Religious Right!!!    Separation of Church and State!    Biblical Consistency about Morality!    Religious Right in their own Words!    Right Wing Religious Extremists!    Revealed Religion and Religious Right!    Right Wing Conspiracies!    Judgement and the Religious Right!!    Change is Possible!!    Nazi Bigots and the Republican Party?     hijacking the Christian Church!!!    Articles on Religious Freedom!!!    Monitoring the Religious Right!!!    Religious Liberty On-Line Links!!!    Other Recommended Sites!!!    Books about Today's Bigots !!!     Fundies's and "Filthy Practices?" WHO OR WHAT IS THE RFCSE?    Mission Statement of the RFCSE    Membership in the RFCSE!!!    Who visits the RFCSE Home Page?!!!    Who is the RFCSE?!!!    Director of the RFCSE.    The Georgia Branch of The RFCSE.!!!    So Much for 2007 by the original Die Hard  This is how our religious future has declined under Bush.   TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON 9-11, CLICK HERE! TO MEET REAL CHRISTIANS WHO BELIEVE IN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, CLICK HERE!!! TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE MOSLEM FAITH AND WHY IT MAY BREED MORE TERRORISTS THAN THE OTHERS, CLICK HERE!!!   INTRODUCTION

Every once in a while we come across a quotation that is so true, that chills go up and down our arms.  The following short statement says exactly what I wanted to say to someone yesterday, but couldn't find the words. "Many in the Religious Right in this country believe that since homosexuals "can't pro-create," they thus need to "recruit" or else their "way of life" will dwindle and disappear as their numbers are depleted over time. This is, of course, an utterly ridiculous belief. Gay people are not rendered infertile due to their sexual preferences, and their sperm and ovum are as capable of producing children as is yours or mine. Indeed, there are a great many gay people who are also married with children. Ancient Greece - the cradle of Western Civilization - thrived despite widespread homosexuality. Men had sex with other men for pleasure, and yet these "gays" all had wives and lots of kids back home. Homosexuality and the ability to produce offspring are not mutually exclusive. "Of course, the irony of the religious Right's paranoia about the "homosexual agenda" is the fact that they, themselves, are the biggest supporters of true brainwashing and indoctrination. And they've always known that the best time to "recruit" someone is when they're still kids, with highly malleable world-views (see: church, Boy Scouts, Sunday School, Junior Klan, Hitler Youth, etc).    Therefore, they extrapolate from their own twisted desire to control the hearts and minds of children (and thus the future voting population) and project an image of their shadow selves onto their (current) most feared and hated enemies: Homosexuals. "The Religious Right have always created bogeymen for themselves. They did it in the thirties with immigrants and Jews (remember Father Coughlin?). They did it in the fifties with the Red Menace of communism. They did it in the sixties with hippies and those darned, "unconstitutional" civil rights. They did it in the seventies with bussing and desegregation (i.e. black folks). They did it in the eighties with commies, black folks, drug users and the poor, and they did it in the nineties with Latinos, anyone for separation of church and state, and any democratic congressman. "In all these cases, the Religious Right was battling something about themselves that they hated, but were afraid to confront. Like an alcoholic ranting about the evils of pot and cocaine. Like a bunch of wealthy businessmen sitting in exclusive, private gentlemen's clubs, whispering gravely to each other about the "sinister conspiracy" of labor unions. Bogeymen creating bogeymen. "And now, with the homosexuals, the far-right-wing lunatics want to stamp out any attempts to instill tolerance towards The Other in our children - they call it "brainwashing" - because they quite rightly sense that tolerance is the best inoculation for the kind of brainwashing in which they, themselves, are engaged. "Simply put, the Religious Right, as they attempt to implement their own theocratic, freedom-crushing national agendas via a Byzantine collection of secrecy-obsessed organizations with poorly-hidden motives - and way too many politically powerful people among their members for comfort - see any attempt to counteract their own pro-active efforts as a "sinister plot." And seeing as these loons see the world in terms of Good vs. Evil, it is far easier for them to paint anyone who is against their ideals as being in league with SATAN than it is for the sane and the secular to vilify them. The demonization of their enemies is taken care of for them in advance, by their own perverted, hate-filled psyches. "And before you try to tell me that I'm exaggerating the political power wielded by these freaks, just remember this: They make up five out of nine Supreme Court Justices, and they got their anointed boy installed as President, despite the fact that he lost the popular vote... and despite the fact that they probably would have burned Miami and Washington D.C. to the ground if the shoe had been on the other foot."   .....Jerky B. Religion is a convenient tool with which those individuals and groups who control most of the wealth in our society, control those people with little or no money normally called the middle class or working class. In their minds, the poor do not count because they have no money and they are ignored.  In the case of fascist-types like Pat Robertson and (in the past) Jerry Falwell, they don't even try to hide their greed. They come up with all manner of convoluted Biblical defenses of their avarice and opportunism. If one learns to detect the ECONOMIC and POLITICAL reasons that many powerful right-wingers want to Churchize American society, then American society in general starts to look a whole lot different. Can anyone really maintain that it's a COINCIDENCE that so many fundamentalists are Republicans? They'll give you a million reasons why this is so. But the real reason is simple enough: religion in the U.S. is a business of both profit and control. Although Religious Right extremists are only a small portion of the U.S. population, they  wield political power far beyond their numbers.  They have their own TV stations and they control the Republican party, yet they claim to be victims of "religious persecution".   L.O.L.  They manipulate public opinion through letter writing campaigns, to make their extremist views look mainstream.  They lie, but they lie so loud and so consistently and so pervasively that many people think they are speaking the truth.   It is the strategy of the "big lie".. to repeat a deliberate untruth as often as you can, and eventually, it will become a "fact" in the public consciousness.  They have many different organizations, but only one agenda. That agenda is to establish a Christian fundamentalist theocracy in the United States. But you will not hear Pat Robertson or Pat Buchannon or George Bush admit to that on CNN.  When they are on national television, Religious Right leaders exercise moderation and restraint.  They pledge their "love" for the people they hate (everyone who doesn't share their views), and their deep concern for this nation, and, invariably, "our" children (as if liberals did not have children).  They monopolize the word "family", acting as if only extreme-right, fundamentalist Christians can be good parents.  They have the impudence to claim that they represent "Judeo-Christian" values, but they do not even represent mainstream Christianity.  They claim the exclusive monopoly on morality - their own very special brand of "morality".  They glorify the "golden 50's", a time when the US was supposedly a "moral" nation. But the truth is that more right wing fundamentalist Christians are found to be immoral than other Christian groups.  The 1950's?   The 1950s were a deeply immoral time.   It included institutionalized racism, discrimination of women and gays, rampant abuse of wiretapping powers by the FBI and Witchhunts against political dissidents were only some of the hallmarks of that "moral" time.  Those social ills were finally addressed in the 1960s.  But for those who define morality not by "justice and equality for all", but by what is going on in our bedrooms, the 60's mark the beginning of the "moral decay" of our nation. According to Pat Robertson, the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War, inflation, the oil crisis, Watergate, the Iran hostage crisis, the attempted Reagan assassination, the national debt, drug use and the high divorce rates are directly related to the 60's decisions of the Supreme Court to end religious coercion in public schools. source These are the kinds of message they have hammered into the minds of the people for two decades, and it is working.   An increasing segment of the population is buying into the "moral decay" lie and supports legislation and constitutional amendments that would forever take away the civil liberties that we take for granted.   Never mind that many of the social problems that fuel such sentiments, such as youth violence and crime, are exacerbated or even created by right-wing obstructionist policies, designed by Religious Right leaders and their political minions to make sure their own predictions of gloom and doom come true.  First block any meaningful reform in the legislature, than blame the resulting problems on "lack of moral values".   The Religious Right's campaign against public education is just one example of that destructive, cynical strategy.   In implementing that strategy, Christian extremists know no shame.   They aggressively blamed liberal values (= lack of values) for the Columbine massacre, as if Littleton, CO wasn't an affluent, conservative community with a disproportionately high number of evangelical Christians!   It happened right in James Dobson's back yard, but they have the impudence to blame liberals for it. Religious Right leaders make no secret of their utter contempt for the constitution and the freedoms it represents.   When Phyllis Schlafly makes her hysterical pleas for "no more Clinton judges", what else is she but saying that the US constitution (which gives the president the right to appoint judges) has no meaning to her?  What else is Pat Robertson but an enemy of the constitution when he calls for the impeachment of every judge who disagree with his agenda?  What could be more unconstitutional than Gary Bauer's presidential campaign promise to permit state facilities to post the ten commandments? Exposing these people as enemies of constitutional freedoms is easier than taking candy from a baby, but the "liberal" mass media - which are many things, but certainly not liberal - usually shy away from the task.  These "liberal" media never expose the hypocrisy of the Religious Right, and the highly selective reading of religious scripture that is behind most of its ideologies.   Not that that would be hard - ever wondered why Jerry Falwell is not wearing a beard (Lev. 19[27])?  Ever wondered why Pat Robertson is not giving away his millions to the poor (Matt 19 [23-24])? Many other Religious-Right myths just beg to be challenged: Premarital sex is against Christian values?  Not according to the bible, which condemns adultery, but not sex between two people who are both unmarried (see this  )  Abortion is murder? Not according to Exodus 21 [22], which considers killing a fetus only a minor misdemeanor (reference). Homosexuality condemned by "millennia of moral teaching"?  Pure fiction. The ancient Greek and Roman civilizations considered homosexuality perfectly normal, so normal that in fact they did not even have a word for it.  Many native societies considered it normal and acceptable as well.    And even in the Christian world, there was never a universal agreement that homosexuality was wrong.  In the words of Ken Collins: Some modern Christian teachers allege that the church has officially considered homosexuality to be morally wrong, but that long dogmatic tradition doesn't extend much farther back than the 1960s, and even then only in certain sects. For example, the current edition of the United Methodist Book of Discipline has a lot to say about homosexuality, but the topic doesn't even appear in 1965 edition or in any earlier edition of the same book. If this is such an important historic dogma of the Christian Church, we might reasonably ask why it is not listed as such in historical documents. We might ask, 'Why were the seven ecumenical councils silent on this topic?' Historically, there has always been a debate among Christians on this topic, and the categorical judgments against gays are recent, not ancient. Even if such universal and long-standing condemnation existed, it would be irrelevant, considering the many grave errors in moral judgement that Christians committed throughout the centuries, of which approval and defense of slavery is only one example. "The first four commandments: no other gods, no graven images, not take name in vain, and remember the Sabbath are wholly religious in nature unrelated to any civil or criminal law.  That is 40 percent of the commandments.  Two other commandments: the fifth commandment to honor thy father and mother, and the tenth commandment not to covet are semi-religious social and psychological norms which would have to be enforced by thought police." (...) In Mark 10:19 Jesus said, "Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honor thy father and mother." Thus he omitted five of the original Ten Commandments--- most notably those dealing with God and the practice of religion---- and added a new one of his own.  Elsewhere, in Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus replied that the greatest commandments were the golden rules rather than any of the Ten Commandments. source

REALITY CHECK

Welcome! The Religious Freedom Coalition of the Southeast (RFCSE) is a non-profit, public interest association originally established in 1987, first placed on the Internet in 1992, and reorganized as an ecumenical organization in 1998.  It is a on-line gathering place for independent grass roots religious freedom on the Web.   The RFCSE was created to preserve, protect and defend everyone's right to worship and believe anyway they wish, and roll back decades of Religious Rights abuses, to root out religious and political fraud and corruption, to champion causes which further religious freedom everywhere in the World; and to learn about and comment on U.S. government and public affairs as they apply to religion.  There are many Hypocrites and crooked politicians in the World of Right Wing Religious Extremist organizations.  The RFCSE aims to expose them all.

The purpose of the RFCSE is to expose the evil Bigotry, Hypocrisy, and False Claims of those of the religious right AND left, who believe that the ends justify the means; to expose the hypocrisy and bigotry of those who would push their personal ideas on everyone else; to identify the friends and supporters of Religious Freedom.

It is an organization which denounces violence in the name of religion as well as all religious extremists who use fundamentalist views of certain religions as their justification for the evil they practice: Osama ben Laden is a prime example.  

---

On January 5, 1941, the 20th century's greatest president - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - made the following speech:

"In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms: The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world.  The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world.  The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings that will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants - everywhere in the world.  The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor - anywhere in the world.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so - called "new order" of tyranny that the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb."

---

The RFCSE offers vital Religious Freedom information to the public. The RFCSE will identify various representatives of our federal and state governments (including Congressmen and Congresswomen as well as Senators, lobbyists, religious organizations, companies, corporations, and other public individuals), who we feel are a danger to Freedom of Religion and the First Amendment.

The RFCSE also identifies individuals who have supported religious freedom above and beyond the call to duty. The RFCSE raises public awareness about issues of freedom of religion, free speech and access to government, and provides education and advice on First Amendment and Freedom of Religion issues.

If religious strictures are used to justify oppression by people who regularly disregard precepts of equal gravity from the same moral code, or if prohibitions which restrain a disliked minority are upheld in their most literal sense as absolutely inviolable while comparable precepts affecting the majority are relaxed or reinterpreted, one must suspect something other than religious belief as the motivating cause of the oppression.

John Boswell

 

MISSION STATEMENT

Religious liberty is in great danger.  Religious bigots, Political Pundits, and right wing conservative leaders are propagating untruths about liberal political leaders, and religions which they feel are in competition with their version of religion.  Right Wing extremist organizations continue to storm the United States Capitol, state houses and school districts to advance a partisan political agenda that includes: mandating sectarian prayer in schools; denying civil rights to all Americans; dismantling public education; revoking First Amendment guarantees, including the separation of church and state and freedom of speech; fighting gun safety; fighting campaign finance reform, and fighting efforts to protect the environment.

Is it with blessing of God, that some religions kill others and try to destroy their people and their works?  Does the creator  really wish us to destroy the works of the Great Spirit through pollution, or is it just humankind's Greed?  Does the creator want us to lie, cheat and steal to participate in Government? Does the creator wish there to be only one religion and it be governed by psychotics and thieves? Does the creator of all wish to have full rights for Male White Heterosexual Anglo Saxon Protestant Christians, but limited rights for everyone else?  Does the Great Spirit really want us to kill fellow human beings if there is even a small doubt that they committed a crime?  Does the Great Spirit really wish us to destroy a Public Education System that has allowed the economy of this country to be the envy of all others?  (I use the terms creator and Great Spirit to take the gender out of a description of the God of all, since God has no Gender.  When a Christian says "Our Father which are in heaven.." he or she could not be talking about a real Father since the creator of the Universe could have no human form not being human and all.)

"I think that those people who practice a religion which would answer the above questions in the affirmative, must be following a entity which they have named Satan, for only in the precepts of a Satan can be found such a collection of beliefs".....staff

TO MEET THE REAL MOSLEM EXTREMIST TERRORISTS, CLICK HERE!!!

If you are interested in The Religious Freedom Coalition, e-mail rfcse@hotmail.com

IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A CHRISTIAN ONLY NATION?

When the US House passed the "Defense of the Ten Commandments" amendment to the juvenile justice bill, the supporters of the bill reiterated the Christian-right mantra that the USA is a Christian Nation, and that our legal system is founded on the Christian Bible. In a press conference attended by Gary Bauer, Rep. Robert Aderholt (R, Alabama), the sponsor of the amendment, said: "The Ten Commandments represent the very cornerstone of the values this nation was built upon, and the basis of our legal system here in America".

I challenge everyone who subscribes to this belief to tell me where the Ten Commandments speak of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the form of government, free elections, separation of powers, checks and balances, separation of church and state, and virtually everything else that defines our system of government.   The fact is that the very first commandment ("I am the Lord your God. You shall have no other gods before me") runs contrary to the establishment clause of the Bill of Rights and is nothing but a sectarian claim to religious supremacy.  The fact is that the principles of modern democracy were not laid out in the bible, but by political philosophers such as John Locke in the 17th century.  The fact is that our legal system is rooted in the common law of ancient Rome, not in the capriciousness of biblical authoritarianism.  The fact is that societies in the Mediterranean and the Middle East had highly developed legal systems millennia before Christians walked on the face of the earth.

Read this article for an excellent rebuttal of the attempt to impose an ancient Hebrew tribal code on modern society.   I also recommend Is America a Christian Nation? by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a short, but excellent article which debunks common Religious Right arguments that supposedly show that the United States were founded as a Christian nation.

Christians as well as all Religions have a right to worship in this country without being attacked by the Conservative Christian Right.

---

FLASH:  COUPLE WIN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM CASE
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A federal judge said town officials violated a couple's religious freedoms by limiting the number of people who could attend prayer meetings at their home.

Citing zoning rules, town officials in New Milford said Robert and Mary Murphy could only have 24 people besides family members at their home. Neighbors in the community 65 miles southwest of Hartford had complained about cars parked on the dead-end street.

The Murphy's, who had invited up to 40 participants to prayer meetings they began seven years ago, said the order violated their constitutional rights to freedom of religion and peaceful assembly.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Holly B. Fitzsimmons ordered officials to stop enforcing the limit.

``We thank God the Constitution is working,'' Mary Murphy said Friday.

The Murphy's were represented by the American Center for Law and Justice, a legal group that focuses on family and religious issues.

``This ruling sends an important message that the government cannot act as the 'prayer police' and censor legal and lawful religious expression,'' said Vince McCarthy, an attorney for the Murphy's.

Kathy Castagnetta, New Milford's zoning enforcement officer, declined to comment. She said town officials had not yet read the ruling.

This is one of those rulings which will help ALL religions to be able to openly practice their religion.  Bhuddists, Brahmins, Sikhs and Wiccans.

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE - BUSH STYLE

"(...) Even if "Charitable Choice" is expanded across the board, barriers to the use of federal funds by faith-based groups will remain.  Governor Bush believes a concerted effort to identify and remove all such barriers is needed." source: George W. Bush's Official Website "The appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, [is] contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares that 'Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment'" James Madison, February 27, 1811

CONSISTENCY OF BIBLICAL MORALITY BY THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT

You shall not kill?

You shall not kill. Exod. 20 [13] and Deut. 5[17] (the fifth commandment)

Lev. 20 [15]:If a woman approaches any beast and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.

Num 31[17]: (...) Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

Deut 13 [6-9]: "If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, `Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known, (....) but you shall kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

1 Sam 15[2-3]: And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ash'kelon and killed thirty men of the town (..).

Judg. 14[19]: Thus says the LORD of hosts, `I will punish what Am'alek did to Israel in opposing them on the way, when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and smite Am'alek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.'"

Slavery: approved by the Bible

Lev. 25[44]: As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are round about you.

God likes capitalism and hates communism?

Acts.2 [44-45]: And all who believed were together and had all things in common; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all, as any had need. 

Religious Tolerance as practiced in the Bible

Deut.7 [1-5]:"When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Gir'gashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Per'izzites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites, seven nations greater and mightier than yourselves, and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them. You shall not make marriages with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons.

For they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Ashe'rim, and burn their graven images with fire.

Two Biblical Commandments that Bible-Believing Christians usually ignore

"You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall there come upon you a garment of cloth made of two kinds of stuff." (Lev. 19[19])

"You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard." (Lev. 19[27])

"Abstinence" in the bible

2 Samuel 11[2-5]: It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking upon the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 

And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, "Is not this Bathshe'ba, the daughter of Eli'am, the wife of Uri'ah the Hittite?" So David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her (...).

And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, "I am with child."

If you want more information on biblical pornography and the sexual escapades of the holy men whose lives are supposedly moral examples for the rest of us, read "The X-Rated Bible : An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures"

Jesus and "family values"

Luke 14:26: "If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. "

 

THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT IN THEIR OWN WORDS

"I am sure that only a Christian-controlled country is going to be able to stand up to the impending threat and avert the approaching disaster that our nation is facing." Rev. D. James Kennedy, president of the Center for Reclaiming America

"When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'" Pat Robertson, in his book The New World Order

"Those who practice homosexuality should swiftly be put to death by the government. God emphatically condemns the practice of exchanging proper gender characteristics among men and women. God justly calls for the death-penalty for anyone who practices homosexuality. " Citizens for the Ten Commandments

"The perversion that follows homosexuality is bestiality and then human sacrifice and cannibalism." (Barbara Blewster, a member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints and the Arizona State Legislature)

 

FIGHTING BIGOTRY AND RIGHT WING RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS

It seems that irresistible forces are now "in play" - both in Christendom and in the country at large - which appear to be propelling all citizens, down a ghost-like river, the course of which seems to be etched out in the events of our time by the finger of some unseen apparition - and the current seems to be growing at every twist and turn of its course, a course which may be taking us in a direction from which there may be no turning back once we're fully caught up in its flow.

Time is our enemy now!  If we are to extricate ourselves, we must do so before we are caught up in the full fury of the current. With every election, the country moves ever more rightward, and Christianity and it's churches become ever more enmeshed in rightwing political activity.   To many Christians, of course, the reasons for becoming involved politically seem compelling - how else, it is asked, do they stop the country's drift into anarchism and disintegration? 

But Christians must pause and ask themselves, is this what Christianity is all about? - seizing control of the country and forcing so called righteousness on the citizenry at the point of a gun?  Where will such thinking ultimately take us? - is Christianity creating some  kind of Fourth Reich where all those who disagree with them will be ostracized?   The way to hell is paved with good intentions! - and more murder and slaughter have been carried out in the name of God than Christians might care to admit.  Maybe there's a good reason why secularists and non-Christians are afraid of Christians; maybe that's why they refuse to be drawn to Christ - they can't hear a gentle voice calling them over the din and slaughter Christians have created.

A Christian only has to look at Saudi Arabia to see an example of a Theocracy and a Religiously controlled country.  The result of such religious control is the evil which caused the destruction of the World Trade Center.

Manipulating religion for partisan political gain is bad for both religion and government. It creates a civic culture in which adherence to a political agenda or ideology becomes a litmus test of faith.  Any movement that seeks to establish "one true faith" as a national panacea to the complex problems facing our society undermines the integrity of our democracy and threatens principles inherent to the strength of our nation: religious liberty, equality, respect for diversity, and democratic participation. Lies are told about Hindus, Moslems, Jews, Pagans and Witches.  Lies are told about Native Americans.  Lies are told about almost anyone and anything the Religious Right doesn't agree with.   Their Bible is considered by them to be the unadulterated, inspired and revealed Word of God.   Uh Huh!!!

THE DANGER OF THE "REVEALED RELIGION" OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT

Revelation, or revealed religion, is defined in Webster's New World Dictionary as: "God's disclosure to man of Himself." This should read, "God's alleged disclosure to man of himself." For unless God reveals to each of us individually that a particular religion is truly His/Her disclosure to us of Him/Herself, then, by believing that religion, we are not taking His/Her word for it, but we are instead putting our belief in the person or institution telling us it is so.   This is what we are doing when we believe the Prophets (See Pat Robertson) of any revealed religion such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

Revealed religions becomes dangerous, when they cross over the line into politics.  This is the admitted goal of the Christian Right, "Compassionate Conservatives", "Christian Reconstructionisist", and other Religious Right groups.  God allegedly revealed to Pat Robertson and his Coalition, that He wants them to take over America and eventually the world with "His Word," so the laws of the nations will mirror the laws in the Bible, which, if you know what's in the Bible, is terrifying.  This, too, is what the Ayatollah's goal was, only his "revealed word of God" was the Koran, another revelation.   Are we to believe Pat when he says the Bible is revelation of God's Word or the Ayatollah or our common sense?

Some fundamentalist Christians add an extra element.  They want to destroy the Islamic Holy buildings on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, so they can build the third temple which they believe has to be constructed before "The Messiah will come again".  Some of these groups would start a World War so their idea of Armageddon would come true.  When "The Rapture" comes, these extremist religious fanatics believe they will be taken up to heaven  leaving everyone else here on earth.

And then you have the religious wars involving Protestants and Catholics in Ireland; and Israel and Moslem countries in the Middle East.  And the Fundamentalist Moslem Osama Ben Laden and his war against the west.

And everyone believes they are right!

Yes it is a frightening vision for the future: hundreds of power hungry right wing extremist ministers and other religious leaders, brainwashing thousands if not millions of religious fanatics, that the end of the world is coming SOON.  "That we need to purify the world and get rid of all the homosexuals, astrologers, pornographers, infidels, non-believers, and others who do not agree with us.  That we need to establish "The Word" of The Bible as the rule of law in a Christian America.  If that means trampling on other citizens freedom of religion or freedom of expression, so be it!"  Yes that is a true quote from a conservative minister in Marietta Georgia in 1999.

Because we have identified a clear and present danger to the integrity of the United States, from the religious right, we will concentrate on revealing the dangers associated with their organizations and the personal behavior of some of their leaders.  For after all, somewhere it says, "by their deeds shall you know them." 

 

THE DANGER OF RIGHT WING CONSPIRACIES

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a
hundred battles.  -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

For years Americans have wondered whether a secret elite really runs the country. The Illuminati? The Establishment? The Mob? The answer is less glamorous and more troubling. In the year 2003s, influence is available to anyone who can spare, say, a hundred grand to underwrite a few political campaigns.

In the below list of enemies of Religious Freedom and the First Amendment, we are going to identify the nation's largest political contributors.  You can check out this list in its entirety.  Do some investigative work of your own and dig around.

Most of these people see their donations as sound investments; in return, they ask for - and receive - generous tax breaks or legislation favorable to their businesses. Read the below information and get a sense of what influence they wield.

The influence of these people is fundamentally at odds with the American ideal of popular government and sparked demands for reform. Reform initiatives have had success at the state level, but the Congress has done next to nothing when it comes to campaign reform. We hope that this article will fuel the fire of those who want their votes to count as much as that of a New York investment banker. Or a camera-shy Cleveland billionaire...

As you shall presently see there is not just one right wing religious conspiracy, but, there are dozens of Right Wing religious organizations and certain Rich donors, who seem to work together on most issues, and wish to determine the moral values and beliefs of everyone else in this country and ultimately the World.  How are they going to do this?  By controlling what who think, see, hear and believe.   

Why would these organizations do such a thing?  There are some people in this world who have a terrible self esteem problem.  These people over-compensate for this mental deficiency by convincing themselves that if they can attract enough weak people to them, and gain a large enough following, their self esteem will somehow benefit.  They create organizations which are designed to attract emotionally and mentally susceptible individuals who are easily swayed. 

Unfortunately, some of these religious leaders have a gift of charisma.  They attract enough followers so that their organizations thrive.  These people want their member's money, dedication, sacrifice and give little in return.  As the leader, they feel that they deserve luxury as a reward for their good works, so they usually buy luxury automobiles, apartments, and homes or mansions for their "Church".  Of course they will drive these automobiles and live in these mansions. 

They usually convince their followers that the end of the world is coming very soon and unless you do exactly as they say, you will burn in hell.  They will forbid that their followers associate with other groups which they have not approved.   See: The Hijacking of the Christian Church, written by a Christian Republican

Sound familiar?  These are the same techniques used by Jim Jones when he attracted people to his commune in South America.   Jim Jones was the pastor of the Peoples Temple, a large California congregation of the prominent liberal Protestant denomination, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Jones had become an advocate of a radical form of Marxist liberation theology, then a popular perspective in liberal Protestantism. However, while he was praised within his denomination and other Protestant churches, for his social outlook and work on racial harmony, he was not without his harsh critics.  In 1977, he moved with hundreds of his church members, mostly African Americans, to Guyana, where the church had previously established a small agricultural colony.   There, a serious of events resulted in several hundred members either committing suicide or being murdered.

Sometimes these leaders will cooperate with other similar groups, sometimes they will not.  But some of these extremist organizations are funded by conservative foundations which have been created by a few individuals and families which own and /or control billion dollar companies and corporations.  These groups almost always work together.  Their purpose seems to be the creation of a society favorable to their companies and their desire for power.  Money is power.   Ideas are power.  Appearances are power. 

Since they control the money, they control the religious leaders of these cults, and through them, their members.

If these leaders and companies can control what you see, hear and believe, they can control the members.  If they have THE POWER, they can then decide what a person buys, where they live, who they can associate with, and which Gods are worshipped.

If you analyze the included with the profile of the following individuals, organizations and companies, you will find that in many ways some of them interact with each other.  Some of the individuals are on the boards of several of the organizations which receive their funding from the few foundations and companies.  

Those who are listed below seem to be connected in some way by beliefs that are in common with the Christian Reconstructionists and with certain charitable conservative foundations.  Read all of it.  You will find out more than you care to, about the religious right and their attempt to take away some of your freedoms.   Some of the individuals listed below are public officials who have sworn to defend the constitution of the United States.  It's like sending the fox to guard the hen house.   Go to Christian Reconstructionism Here.

See: Is there a Right Wing Conspiracy?  This paper written by a Christian, will open your eyes.

We will of course be attacked for our efforts.  We are used to that.

But we will not go away.  We will call attention to all the evil that the Religious Right is responsible for.   -   an associate (in 1999 an associate was physically threatened and eventually died of a heart attack, as the result of death threats) 

First lets look at the friends of Religious Freedom.  These people have attempted to help guarantee that every American can worship any god he or she wishes, or no god if that is their desire.

FRIENDS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

• George Soros  Open Society Institute and the Soros foundations network. He is also currently the president and chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC, a private investment management firm that serves as principal advisor to the Quantum Group of Funds, a series of international investment vehicles. He is very interested in Religious Freedom, and is to be commended for his work in promoting it.

• Leanne Katz National Coalition Against Censorship
  
• John Woods Rock Out Censorship, POB 147, Jewett, OH 43986.
  
• Senators Patrick Leahy (D.-Vermont) and Jim Jeffords (R-Vermont).
  
• Music industry activist Nina Crowley.
  
• Artist Hans Evers.
  
• Bradford College Class of '95.
  
• Andover High School student Yvonne Nicoletti.
  
• The anti-censorship activists at Carnegie Mellon University
  
• Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
  
• Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders.
  
• Nadine Strossen, President of the American Civil Liberties Union.
  
• Skipp Porteous of the Institute for First Amendment Studies

Now lets look at the enemies of freedom of religion.   Their works have not been satisfactory to the Great Spirit

ENEMIES OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

Click on underlined Names Below to discover what the person or group is all about.

• TO MEET THE REAL MOSLEM EXTREMIST TERRORISTS, CLICK HERE!!!

• George W. Bush, President? of the United States

• Richard Perle, Advisor to the president.

• Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense

• Karl Rove, Advisor to the President

• Dick Army, House of Representatives from Texas.

• Alberto Gonzales
  
• John Ashcroft, former U.S. Senator

• Roy Blunt

• Ted Olson, of the Olson Salon and Connections to Starr and Religious Right
  
• Richard H. Baker, House of Representatives from Louisiana
  
• Bob Barr, from Georgia
  
• Gary L. Bauer, Family Research Council
  
• Ty and Jeannette Beeson, The Report
  
• Rev. Flip Benham, Operation Rescue
  
• William Bennett, Empower America
  
• Peter Blute U.S. House of Rep. (R.-Mass.).
  
• L. Brent Bozell 3d, Media Research Center
  
• Pat Buchanan, American Cause
  
• Dan Burton

• Ken Calvert
  
• Paul Cameron and the Family Research Institute
  
• Helen Chenoweth
  
• Christian Reconstructionism
  
• Church of Scientology
  
• Coors Family and Company
  
• Tom DeLay
  
• Richard Devos
  
• James C. Dobson, Focus on the Family
  
• William A. Donohue, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
  
• Exodus International and Other Ex-gay "Ministries"
  
• J. James Exon.
  
• Jerry Falwell, Liberty Alliance
  
• Edwin Feulner, The Heritage Foundation
  
• Newt Gingrich
  
• Karen Jo Gounaud, Family Friendly Libraries
  
• Dr. Robert Grant, American Freedom Coalition
  
• Dr. Jay H. Grimstead, Coalition on Revival
  
• Jessie Helms
  
• David Horowitz, Center for the Study of Popular Culture
  
• Nelson Bunker Hunt
  
• Henry Hyde
  
• Dee Jepson, Enough is Enough!
  
• Bob Jones III
  
• Tim LaHaye, co-founder of the Moral Majority and New Right Movement
  
• Beverly LaHaye, Concerned Women For America
  
• Rev. Bob Larson, Bob Larson's Ministries
  
• James Leininger
  
• Fred Lennon
  
• Rush Limbaugh
  
• Trent Lott
  
• Catherine MacKinnon
  
• Texe Marrs
  
• Martin Mawyer, Christian Action Network
  
• Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church
  
• Oliver North, Freedom Alliance

• Ted Olson, Soliciter General
  
• Robert Peters, Morality in Media
  
• John E. Peterson
  
• Howard Phillip
  
• Randy T. Phillips, Promise Keepers
  
• Larry Pratt
  
• Thomas Radecki, National Coalition on Television Violence
  
• Ralph Reed
  
• Pat Robertson, Christian Coalition
  
• George Roche III
  
• Christopher Ruddy, The New York Guardian
  
• Richard Mellon Scaife
  
• Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum
  
• Rev. Louis Sheldon, Traditional Values Coalition
  
• Dr. Robert L. Simonds, Citizens for Excellence in Education
  
• Ken Starr
  
• Bruce Taylor, National Law Center for Children and Families
  
• Jack Thompson
  
• Linda Tripp
  
• Richard Vigverie
  
• J.C. Watts
  
• Paul Weyrich, Free Congress Foundation
  
• John Whitehead, Rutherford Institute
  
• Donald Wildmon, American Family Association
  
• Barbara Wyatt, Parents Music Resource Center

ARTICLES ON THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT

The following is a best-of-the-internet collection of articles refuting Religious Right propaganda, myths, half-truths and pseudofacts. We highly recommend all of them, but for those of you who have little time, best ones are at the top.

• 10 Reasons why the Religious Right is not pro-family

• Family Values

• The Sex Lies of the Religious Right - how conservatives distort the facts of life

• The Case against School Prayer

• Fighting to win

• The Religious Right

• The Godless Constitution of the United States

• Fundamentalist Christianity and the Family

• How to Fight the Religious Right - A guide to defending yourself against Fundamentalist Christians

• Little-Known U.S. Document Signed by President Adams Proclaims America's Government Is Secular

• What Americans Really Believe - And Why Faith Isn't As Universal As They Think

• Does the Constitution Embody Christian Thought and Morality?

• Dr Don Wiley on the Religious Right (a collection of articles)

• Peddling Hatred in America

• Nazi Anti-Jewish Speech VS. Religious Right Anti-Gay Speech

• Conservative Christian Intolerance

• Teaching Fear:The Religious Right's Campaign Against Sexuality Education

• 'Parental Rights': The Trojan Horse of the Religious Right attack on Public Education

• A Right Wing and a Prayer: Report Reveals Religious Right's Attack on Schools

• 11 Things You Can Do To Fight The Religious Right

• Secularization in the United States and its Perceived Impact on the Evangelical’s Religiosity: 1950 - Present

• The Religious Right Wants America

• Why The Far Right Is UnAmerican

• The Religious Right and the GOP (1998 article)

• Crime is highest among the religious

 

MONITORING THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT

• The Freedom Forum online. News about free press, free speech and free spirit.

• Internet Infidels Newswire

• Internet Infidels Newswire: Religious and/or Conservative Groups In The News

• People for the American Way: About the Religious Right featuring Right Wing Watch Online

• Freedom Writer a bi-monthly online newsletter

• Americans United for Separation of Church and State

• TO MEET THE REAL MOSLEM EXTREMIST TERRORISTS, CLICK HERE!!!

 

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ON-LINE LINKS

• Overview of U.S. Supreme Court decisions impacting religion.
  URL http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.religion.html

• FindLaw's excellent annotations on all aspects of the First Amendment
  URL http://www.findworld.com/data/Constitution/amendment01/

• Federal court decisions impacting religious liberty of Native Americans.
  URL http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.NA.religion.html

• American Indian Religious Freedom Act, 1978.
  URL http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.airfa.html

• American Indian Religious Freedom Act Amendments of 1994.
  URL http://www.calyx.com/~olsen/RELIGION/airfaa.html

• Baptist Faith on Religious Liberty.
  URL http://www.utm.edu/martinarea/fbc/bfm/17.html

• NEW: World Union of Deists.
  URL http://www.deism.com/

• B'nai B'rith on Religious Liberty.
  URL http://bnaibrith.org/pr/praynsch.html

• Catholic Church on Religious Liberty (Vatican II).
  URL http://www.rc.net/rcchurch/vatican2/liberty.asc

• President Clinton's memorandum on Religious Exercise and Religious Expression in the Federal Workplace, 1997.
  URL http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.pres.rel.work.html

• President Clinton's Guidelines on Religious Exercise and Religious Expression in the Federal Workplace, issued April 1997.
  URL http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.guideline.rel.work.html

• President Clinton's executive order on Native American Sacred Sites, 1996.
  URL http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.pres.sacred.html

• President Clinton's memorandum on Religious Expression in Public Schools, 1995.
  URL http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.pres.rel.html

• The Constitution of the United States of America.
  URL http://www.law.cornell.edu:80/constitution/constitution.overview.html

• Danbury Baptist Association's letter to Thomas Jefferson and his reply.
  URL http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.jeffers.2.html

• J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies at Baylor University.
  URL http://www.baylor.edu/departments/Church_State/

• Gene Garman's essays on Separation of Church and State.
  URL http://www.sunnetworks.net/~ggarman/

• Thomas Jefferson on religious liberty: A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia, 1785 and his letter to the Danbury Baptist Association on Separation of Church and State.
  URL http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.jeffers.html

• NEW: The International Coalition for Religious Freedom
  URL http://www.religiousfreedom.com/

• John Locke's statement on religious toleration: A Letter Concerning Toleration (tolerati), 1689.
  URL gopher://gopher.vt.edu:10010/02/116/2

• James Madison's statement on religious freedom: Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785.
  URL http://www.uark.edu/depts/comminfo/www/memorial.html

• A Parent's Guide to Religion in the Public Schools.
  URL http://www.fac.org/publicat/parents/parents.htm

• Political Science Papers Dealing with the Relationship of Church and State, and Religious Liberty
  URL http://members.gnn.com/lpahl/poli-sci.htm

• Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. Ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, June 1997
  URL http://www.calyx.com/~olsen/RELIGION/rfra.html

• Religious Liberty: Frequently Asked Questions.
  URL http://www.fac.org/religion/relfaq.htm

• Philip Schaff on "The American Idea of Religious Freedom" from Church and State in the United States, 1888.
  URL http://www.xmission.com/~gastown/revival/religfre.txt

• Spiritual Freedom Pledge sponsored by the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
  URL http://www.religioustolerance.org/spir_fre.htm

• Roger Williams on freedom of conscience: From The Bloody Tenet of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience, in a Conference between Truth and Peace, 1644.
  URL http://w3.trib.com/FACT/1st.jeffers.williams.html

 

OTHER RECOMMENDED SITES

• George Soros Foundations

• Arianna Huffington: http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/index.php

• People United For Religious Freedom - Exposing TV Evangelism

• Stop Dr. Laura

• People for the American Way

• American Civil Liberties Union

• ACLU: The Religious Right in Washington

• The Progressive Challenge

• CultureWatch

• Freedom From Religion Foundation

• Biblical America Resistance Front

• Internet Infidels

• Freethought Debater

• The Anti-Bigot

• Religious Tolerance

• Council for Secular Humanism