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Keep Religion OUT of Politics Mobile Billboard in D.C. on Jan. 20
"January 15, 2009 The Freedom From Religion Foundation is taking its message of keeping religion out of government to the Inauguration on Jan. 20. The nation's largest association of atheists and agnostics, also a state/church watchdog, is running a catchy quarter-page ad in The Washington Post on Jan. 20 addressed to the incoming president, urging "Mr. President, Rebuild That Wall!"
"The Freedom From Religion Foundation is taking its message of keeping religion out of government to the Inauguration on Jan. 20.
The nation's largest association of atheists and agnostics, also a state/church watchdog, is running a catchy quarter-page ad in The Washington Post on Jan. 20 addressed to the incoming president, urging "Mr. President, Rebuild That Wall!"
The ad will further urge the new president to "Dismantle Bush's disastrous 'faith-based initiative' " and "Restore the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation between church and state.' " Government, the Foundation noted, "should run on facts, not faith."
The Foundation's red-white-and-blue message of "Keep Religion OUT of Politics" will also be circulating for ten hours in the Capitol Hill area on Tuesday. (The Foundation is eager to receive photographs of supporters next to the mobile billboard to post at its website.)
" 'All the king's horses and all the king's men' can't put the faith-based initiative back together again, so let's throw it out and go back to the simple First Amendment," says Foundation co-president Dan Barker.
The Foundation and its co-presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, on behalf of its 13,600 members, are among the co-plaintiffs in Michael Newdow's federal lawsuit, Newdow v. Roberts, challenging prayer to open and close the swearing-in and the addition of "In God We Trust" to the secular oath of office.
"The inauguration is not a religious event," notes Foundation co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor. "It is not a coronation. It is a secular celebration for all of us. ‘We the people’ bow down to no sovereign, be it earthly or heavenly."
Michael Newdow will be arguing for a temporary restraining order today at 2 p.m. in a district court in the District of Columbia.
The Foundation has launched more than 40 lawsuits to preserve the constitutional separation of church and state since it was founded in 1978, and has taken (and won) more challenges of the faith-based initiative than any other civil liberties group. Its members were spurned by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision last year denying standing in FFRF's challenge of Pres. Bush's authority to create a "faith-based office" in the White House."
www.ffrf.org/news/2009/washpoad.php
Newdow, FFRF & Coalition Sue to Halt Inaugural Prayers
December 30, 2008 The Freedom From Religion Foundation, its co-presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor and several of its members are among the 29 co-plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit, Newdow v. Roberts, filed today by attorney Michael Newdow in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeking to enjoin the Presidential Inaugural Committee from sponsoring prayers at the official Inauguration. The 34-page Legal Complaint also punctures some myths, documenting that for most of our country's history, no clergy led prayers at inaugurations.
www.ffrf.org/news/2008/i...omplaint.php
FFRF Urges Obama Not Only to Drop Warren, But All Prayer, From Inauguration
December 22, 2008 After being heaped with abuse over the past eight years, the Establishment Clause needs a 'fierce advocate' indeed in the White House. Take this unparalleled opportunity, Mr. President-Elect, to rebuild that wall of separation between church and state."
www.ffrf.org/news/2008/obama_warren.php
If keeping state and church separate are important to you - join the "Separation of church and state" tribe to remain up to date on the latest news, info and happenings separationofchurchstate.tribe.net
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"January 15, 2009 The Freedom From Religion Foundation is taking its message of keeping religion out of government to the Inauguration on Jan. 20. The nation's largest association of atheists and agnostics, also a state/church watchdog, is running a catchy quarter-page ad in The Washington Post on Jan. 20 addressed to the incoming president, urging "Mr. President, Rebuild That Wall!"
"The Freedom From Religion Foundation is taking its message of keeping religion out of government to the Inauguration on Jan. 20.
The nation's largest association of atheists and agnostics, also a state/church watchdog, is running a catchy quarter-page ad in The Washington Post on Jan. 20 addressed to the incoming president, urging "Mr. President, Rebuild That Wall!"
The ad will further urge the new president to "Dismantle Bush's disastrous 'faith-based initiative' " and "Restore the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation between church and state.' " Government, the Foundation noted, "should run on facts, not faith."
The Foundation's red-white-and-blue message of "Keep Religion OUT of Politics" will also be circulating for ten hours in the Capitol Hill area on Tuesday. (The Foundation is eager to receive photographs of supporters next to the mobile billboard to post at its website.)
" 'All the king's horses and all the king's men' can't put the faith-based initiative back together again, so let's throw it out and go back to the simple First Amendment," says Foundation co-president Dan Barker.
The Foundation and its co-presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, on behalf of its 13,600 members, are among the co-plaintiffs in Michael Newdow's federal lawsuit, Newdow v. Roberts, challenging prayer to open and close the swearing-in and the addition of "In God We Trust" to the secular oath of office.
"The inauguration is not a religious event," notes Foundation co-president Annie Laurie Gaylor. "It is not a coronation. It is a secular celebration for all of us. ‘We the people’ bow down to no sovereign, be it earthly or heavenly."
Michael Newdow will be arguing for a temporary restraining order today at 2 p.m. in a district court in the District of Columbia.
The Foundation has launched more than 40 lawsuits to preserve the constitutional separation of church and state since it was founded in 1978, and has taken (and won) more challenges of the faith-based initiative than any other civil liberties group. Its members were spurned by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision last year denying standing in FFRF's challenge of Pres. Bush's authority to create a "faith-based office" in the White House."
www.ffrf.org/news/2009/washpoad.php
Newdow, FFRF & Coalition Sue to Halt Inaugural Prayers
December 30, 2008 The Freedom From Religion Foundation, its co-presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor and several of its members are among the 29 co-plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit, Newdow v. Roberts, filed today by attorney Michael Newdow in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeking to enjoin the Presidential Inaugural Committee from sponsoring prayers at the official Inauguration. The 34-page Legal Complaint also punctures some myths, documenting that for most of our country's history, no clergy led prayers at inaugurations.
www.ffrf.org/news/2008/i...omplaint.php
FFRF Urges Obama Not Only to Drop Warren, But All Prayer, From Inauguration
December 22, 2008 After being heaped with abuse over the past eight years, the Establishment Clause needs a 'fierce advocate' indeed in the White House. Take this unparalleled opportunity, Mr. President-Elect, to rebuild that wall of separation between church and state."
www.ffrf.org/news/2008/obama_warren.php
If keeping state and church separate are important to you - join the "Separation of church and state" tribe to remain up to date on the latest news, info and happenings separationofchurchstate.tribe.net
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