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 EvolutionRules rated 7 months ago -
Celebrities, Religious Liberty Heroes Headline National Simulcast For Church-State Separation
Activists Gather At Theaters In 25 Cities To Put Church-State Separation On National Agenda During 2008 Election
Actors, musicians and comedians will join church-state activists from across the countr...
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- EvolutionRules rated 7 months ago
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Celebrities, Religious Liberty Heroes Headline National Simulcast For Church-State Separation
Activists Gather At Theaters In 25 Cities To Put Church-State Separation On National Agenda During 2008 Election
Actors, musicians and comedians will join church-state activists from across the country March 26 to put church-state separation on the national agenda during the 2008 election season.
In movie theatres in 25 cities across the nation, interested citizens will gather to learn about the threats to church-state separation and to demand that presidential hopefuls and candidates for other offices answer questions about key issues dealing with individual freedom. A list of 10 great questions to ask candidates will be featured.
Titled "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Separation of Church and State ... but Were Afraid to Ask!," the high-definition program is being hosted by First Freedom First (FFF), a joint project of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and The Interfaith Alliance Foundation.
Peter Coyote, a celebrated Hollywood actor and filmmaker, will emcee the program, which is to include a performance by special guests, The Bacon Brothers. Actor Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael formed the band more than 10 years ago and continue touring nationwide.
Other actors and celebrities scheduled to participate include Michael J. Fox ("Family Ties" and "Spin City"), Jack Klugman ("The Odd Couple" and "Quincy, M.E."), James Whitmore ("The Shawshank Redemption"), Wendie Malick ("Just Shoot Me!"), Dan Lauria ("The Wonder Years"), Catherine Dent ("The Shield"), stand-up comedian and Air America host Marc Maron, singer/songwriter Catie Curtis and singer/satirist Roy Zimmerman.
- wisdom-of-trees rated 20 months ago
- I really like what each and every one of these t-shirts have to say. (As a graphic artist, I have to say they're kinda ugly) but I would wear one anyways. Especially the "Sound Science" one
- Yasue rated 7 months ago
- Sign this petition to protect the separation of church and state!
- anneliese rated 18 months ago
- From the page: "The founders of our nation believed that all Americans should have the right to worship according to their own beliefs, or not to worship at all. So strong was their commitment to religious freedom that they enshrined it in the first sentence of the Bill of Rights.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...""
I hope petitions like this and individual actions will keep the theocrats out of the government and our schools.
Religions are invented by people to explain things they do not understand. None is any more or less valid than any other and none should have any special privileges.
- techwiz18 rated 20 months ago
- Every American should have the right to make personal decisions -- about family life, reproductive health, end of life care and other matters of personal conscience.
American tax dollars should not go to charities that discriminate in hiring based on religious belief or that promote a particular religious faith as a requirement for receiving services.
Political candidates should not be endorsed or opposed by houses of worship
Public schools should teach with academic integrity and without the promotion of religious preference or belief.
Decisions about scientific and health policies should be based on the best available scientific data, not on religious doctrine.
- leiaxe rated 24 months ago
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Yes, sign the petition! The First Freedom First is a joint project of The Interfaith Alliance Foundation and Americans United for Separation of Church and State, focusing on church/state separation. They cite 8 main issues:
No Religious Discrimination End of Life Care Reproductive Health Democracy NOT Theocracy Academic Integrity Sound Science Respect For All Families Worship ... or not
- technohippie rated 13 months ago
- SUEWatch The Original
From the page: "The founders of our nation believed that all Americans should have the right to worship according to their own beliefs, or not to worship at all. So strong was their commitment to religious freedom that they enshrined it in the first sentence of the Bill of Rights."
- TOMTHUMB rated 20 months ago
- Next week in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, administration lawyers will argue before the Supreme Court that taxpayers should be denied the legal right to challenge government spending that favors religion.
So this week, they unveil a program that claims to protect our religious liberties. No administration in our history has trampled the First Amendment more than the Bush administration.
Deceptively naming this program First Freedom is a typical strategy of the Bush administration. The title hides its true purpose, just like the USA PATRIOT Act, the Healthy Forest Restoration Act and No Child Left Behind.
In the most religiously diverse nation in the world, religious freedom is for everybody. It's not the freedom of our government to impose or even favor one religion over others. We invite everyone who cares about religious freedom to compare the attorney general's First Freedom Project with First Freedom First.
- BigDaddyB rated 18 months ago
- The founders of our nation believed that all Americans should have the right to worship according to their own beliefs, or not to worship at all. So strong was their commitment to religious freedom that they enshrined it in the first sentence of the Bill of Rights.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
This constitutional guarantee is often known as the "first freedom."
WHile I don't have an imaginary friend, I will never tell anyone that they can't. Why do I say it like that? Years of being told that I am persecuting people like the Westboro Baptist Church. Just because my belief system is different from theirs.
- zenabowli rated 18 months ago
- There's always a time to draw a line in the sand.
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