Church and State:
The Establishment Clause
The Free Exercise Clause

The loss of First Amendment freedoms in America is one of the great underpublicized tragedies of our time.

• The Establishment Clause

• The Free Exercise Clause

• The Religious Right

• School Prayer

• Charles Levendosky, late editor of the First Amenment CyberTribune and Editorial Page Editor of the Casper (WY) Star-Tribune, said of this site:

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Read about how, as surely as the World Trade Towers are down, this grand and holy protection is now gone!

The Religious Right, with the Labor Movement, the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's Movement, is one of the four leading social movements of the Twentieth Century

The Growth of the Religious Right

• Magnitude and Strategy --How Extensive is the Movement?
• Views --What Are the Views of the Religious Right?
• Assessment--Is the Right Wrong?

The Religious Right in Historical Context

17th Century. The Roger Williams--John Cotton Debates. 

• Part 1.
• Part 2.

18th Century. The James Madison--Patrick Henry Debate.

• Part 1.
• Part 2.

20 and 21st Century. The Religious Right--Forward to the Past

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The Establishment Clause: Funeral or Finest Hour?

Establishing the History of the Establishment Clause

• Part 1--Two sides, opposed in culture war, in a zero-sum game on the Clause's history
• Part 2 --Each side has part of the truth, but neither has it all.
• Footnotes
• Is a Religious Liberty Amendment the solution to the current loss of liberty?
• The Rosenberger decision...The New Establishment?

School Prayer: When God is Not Enough.

Prayer in School--Has the Supreme Court Taken God Out of the Classroom? The focus of this paper is the various interest groups involved in school prayer issue.

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Footnotes

Special Study:

Is a Religious Liberty Amendment to the Constitution a solution to our current crisis of liberty?

LINKS

The FREEDOM FORUM FIRST AMENDMENT CENTER of Vanderbuilt University is a good site for monitoring current cases involving issues of freedom.

Tom Peter's page on the separation of church and state...

The Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs is a sixty year old, non-profit religious liberty organization. Its site now contains; speeches by James Dunn, Brent Walker, and Melissa Rogers, as well as institutional position statements, on-line editions of their newsletter, and even more publications about religious liberty. Please stop by and have a look at this constantly growing resource for lovers of religious liberty.  They welcome feedback...

• Baptist Joint Committee
• 200 Maryland Ave., N.E.
• Washington, DC 20002
• 202-544-4226

http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html  Jim Allison and Susan Batte, a lawyer and a member of the US Supreme Court bar, have put together a page about the church/state debate with info about court battles, proposed amendments, state action and church / state events.

*http://www.religioustolerance.org.  This site is filled with great resource links for students of religious liberty. Non-sectarian, eclectic.