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This category includes sites concerning the appropriate relationship between Church and State in their multivariate intersections in civil society. In the United States, questions on religion and government focus on the two religion-related clauses of the First Amendment to the Constitution: Congress is forbidden from placing restrictions on the free exercise of religion, but is also forbidden from creating an established, or state, religion. Differing interpretations of these clauses result in such widely known disputes as those over prayer in public schools, Nativity creches on public property, use of public funds to send children to sectarian schools, the right to practice by wearing certain headgear or using certain substances, and so on.

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• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - An overall view of religious liberty as defined by U.S. Supreme Court cases.
  
• - World-wide non-profit organization based in Fairfax, Virginia that deals with issues of religious freedom around the world.
  
• - A group of self-described traditional Catholics take issue with the Second Vatican Council's teachings on religious freedom.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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
  
• - After having its Religious Freedom Restoration Act declared an unconstitutional exercise of legislative power in 1997, Congress tries again with the Religious Liberty Protection Act of 1999.
  
• - Index of resources for practitioners of Earth Religions who are experiencing religious discrimination.
  
• - Newly elected President George W Bush announces a plan that will enable the "state" to pay "churches" for social problem solving. Washingtonpost.com.
  
• - Article about a United States Supreme Court case in which the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is challenged.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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 r
  
• - Interesting essay which clarifies the difference between "the question of religion and politics" and "the question of church and state".
  
• - A monthly update on state and federal litigation concerning the First Amendment's religion clauses.
  
• - A national and global referral and information exchange network of Pagan religious freedom activists.
  
• - Political science papers dealing with the relationship of church and state, and religious liberty.
  
• - Surveys freedom of religious minorities, as well as widespread harassment, torture, murder, and interference from government and police.
  
• - 650+ essays on belief systems, well organized. They neither support nor attack, but attempt to be inclusive of all sides of the issues covered.
  
• - 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 le
  
• - 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?
  
• - 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.
  
• - A march and rally in Washington DC for non-believers worried about the US becoming more of a theocratic state.
  
• - An extensive repository of laws, cases, news, and historical materials pertaining to religious freedom in the United States.
  
• - A non-profit, non-sectarian, educational organization dedicated to defending the religious freedom of all, regardless of creed, gender or ethnic origin.
  
• - A paper that discusses and analyzes the thoughts of the founding fathers upon drafting the First Amendment's freedom of religion.
  
  

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