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- Advocates International
- Justice with Compassion - World-wide non-profit organization based
in Fairfax, Virginia that deals with issues of religious freedom around
the world.
- Catholic League for Religious
and Civil Rights - The CLRC fights anti-Catholicism and is the nation's
largest Catholic civil rights organization. Their website contains articles
on conflicts between government and the Catholic Church and/or individual
Catholics.
- Children's Healthcare
Is a Legal Duty - CHILD is a nonprofit US organization fighting
religion-based medical neglect. Includes case histories of children
who died after receiving faith-based healing instead of medical care,
examples of religious exemptions to public-health regulations, and legal
news.
- Church,
State, Rock and Roll - A monthly update on state and federal litigation
concerning the First Amendment's religion clauses.
- Church vs State and Faith Based
Initiatives - Debate how you feel about your First Amendment rights,
about school prayer and your taxes going towards religious groups. Do
you believe First Amendment had the effect of forbidding anyone from
using the government to pass sectarian legislation? Will this open the
door for condonation of a particular religion's exclusionary beliefs
at the expense of those that are inclusive? Speak up! (no registration
- no codes - just opinions)
- Church-State
Academic Papers - Political science papers dealing with the relationship
of church and state, and religious liberty.
- Doctrinal Errors of Dignitatis
Humanae, The - A group of self-described traditional Catholics take
issue with the Second Vatican Council's teachings on religious freedom.
- Earth Religions Assistance
Pages - Index of resources for practitioners of Earth Religions
who are experiencing religious discrimination.
- Eastern Philadelphia Organizing
Project - The mission is to develop community leaders who can act
on their values and their faith to create concrete changes and improve
their neighborhoods for all.
- First Amendment Cyber-Tribune:
Freedom of Religion - An overall view of religious liberty as defined
by U.S. Supreme Court cases.
- First Amendment
Cyber-Tribune: Religious Liberty - List of links to primary and
secondary sources, mostly U.S. Government documents and historical essays,
concerning the two religion clauses of the First Amendment.
- First
Amendment Religion: The Intent of Our Founding Fathers - A paper
that discusses and analyzes the thoughts of the founding fathers upon
drafting the First Amendment's freedom of religion.
- International Coalition
for Religious Freedom - A non-profit, non-sectarian, educational
organization dedicated to defending the religious freedom of all, regardless
of creed, gender or ethnic origin.
- Lady Liberty League
- A national and global referral and information exchange network of
Pagan religious freedom activists.
- A Little Bit of
Inquisition - Subtitle: (And They Called It America) How would you
react if your State government required the Witches Rede to be mounted
in your child's classroom?
- National Committee
For Amish Religious Freedom - Founded in 1967 at the University
of Chicago for the purpose of preserving the religious liberty of the
Old Order Amish (and related Anabaptist groups, including Mennonites)
-- and hence religious liberty for all.
- Nonbeliever
Antidiscrimination Project - Discusses theistic oaths for public
office holders, mandated participation in religious substance abuse
programs, Boy Scouts of America policy mandating theistic oath and statement
of religious principle, and veterans' organizations religious membership
restrictions.
- Ontario Consultants on
Religious Tolerance - 650+ essays on belief systems, well organized.
They neither support nor attack, but attempt to be inclusive of all
sides of the issues covered.
- Religion and
Politics - Interesting essay which clarifies the difference between
"the question of religion and politics" and "the question of church
and state".
- Religion, Politics,
and the State - Subtitled "Cross-Cultural Observations", an article
by N.J. Demerath and Karen S. Straight in Cross Currents that discusses
various religion-state models in "Eastern" and "Western" countries.
- The Religious Liberty Archive
- An extensive repository of laws, cases, news, and historical materials
pertaining to religious freedom in the United States.
- Resources for Catholic Educators-
Provides over 1000 links.
- The Jewish Early Childhood
Educators' Exchange- The Jewish Early Childhood Educators' Exchange
is a website geared for Jewish EC educators on integrating secular and
Judaic themes in the classroom. The site includes an on-line handout
from "Beyond Shabbat," a 2000 NAEYC workshop which focuses on integrating
Judaic values into the daily routines of the preschool classroom. A
link to e-group extension of the site may also be found on the home
page.
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