- Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty - http://www.childrenshealthcare.org/
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.
- Witches' Voice White Pages, The - http://www.witchvox.com/xwhite.html
A list of legal reference documents and form letters that witches can use in their local fights for religious freedom. Includes references for Australia, Canada, the United States, and a few individual states.
- Earth Religions Assistance Pages - http://www.conjure.com/ERAL/eral.html
Index of resources for practitioners of Earth Religions who are experiencing religious discrimination.
- Church-State Academic Papers - http://members.aol.com/larrypahl/poli-sci.htm
Political science papers dealing with the relationship of church and state, and religious liberty.
- Religion and Politics - http://www.frontiernet.net/~kenc/relandpo.htm
Interesting essay which clarifies the difference between "the question of religion and politics" and "the question of church and state".
- National Committee For Amish Religious Freedom - http://www.holycrosslivonia.org/amish/
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.
- Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights - http://www.catholicleague.org/
Fights anti-Catholicism and is the U.S.'s largest Catholic civil rights organization. Web site contains articles on conflicts between government and the Catholic Church and/or individual Catholics.
- A Little Bit of Inquisition - http://unquietmind.com/inquisition.html
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?
- International Coalition for Religious Freedom - http://www.religiousfreedom.com/
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 - http://www.circlesanctuary.org/liberty/
A national and global referral and information exchange network of Pagan religious freedom activists.
- Church, State, Rock and Roll - http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/positively4thstreet/
A monthly update on state and federal litigation concerning the First Amendment's religion clauses.
- Faith-Based Office Announcement Sparks Debate - http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62314-2001Jan29.html
Newly elected President George W Bush announces a plan that will enable the "state" to pay "churches" for social problem solving. Washingtonpost.com.
- Nonbeliever Antidiscrimination Project - http://www.nonbeliever.org/index.atheism_antidiscrimination.html
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.
- J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, Baylor University - http://www3.baylor.edu/Church_State/
Site focused on church-state relations in the United States and around the world. Back issues of the Institute's "Journal of Church and State" are available for browsing. Also contains a comprehensive list of links to online resources, including primary source material.
- First Amendment Cyber-Tribune: Religious Liberty - http://fact.trib.com/1st.relig.liberty.html
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.
- Religion, Politics, and the State - http://www.crosscurrents.org/Demerath.htm
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 - http://www.churchstatelaw.com/
An extensive repository of laws, cases, news, and historical materials pertaining to religious freedom in the United States.
- Church vs State and Faith Based Initiatives - http://www.voy.com/77377/
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)
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