December 11, 2009
Voters vs. Vouchers
Opinion polls over the years have generally shown opposition to any form of tax aid to
faith-based and other private schools, and the results have varied depending on how the
question is asked. But the most reliable measure of opinion is the statewide referendum
in which actual voters register their views. Below are listed the 27 referenda to date
that have dealt with vouchers, tax-code vouchers (tuition tax credits), and other forms
of tax aid to nonpublic schools. A more extensive treatment of this issue may be found
on this website in ARL's journal No. 86, and in ARL's book, The Case Against School
Vouchers, which may be ordered from ARL.
August 20, 2009
You can now download an updated PDF file containing the
Religious Affiliations of the 111th Congress
from Americans for Religious Liberty.
Click here to download and view it now.
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your computer to view this file. If you do not have the viewer you can
download it using the following button.
July 8, 2009
The May 31 murder of Dr. George Tiller in his Wichita,
Kansas, church, nothing less than a terrorist
assassination, was far more than just a tragedy for a
courageous, caring physician who was one of the very
few to provide a rarely needed medical procedure for
women with seriously problematic pregnancies. It was
also a vicious attack on the right of all women to
legal and appropriate medical care, an assault on the
freedom of conscience of all women, and an ever so clear
act of intimidation against health care providers out of
sync with a dangerously misguided fundamentalist
patriachalism. The propagandists who demonize freedom
of choice share in the responsibility for this act of violence.
- Edd Doerr
October 17, 2008
Americans for Religious Liberty has published The Lord Was Not on
Trial: The Inside Story of the Supreme Court’s Precedent-Setting
McCollum Ruling, by Dannel McCollum.
Click Here for Details
July 10, 2008
Americans for Religious Liberty has joined with more than 40 religious,
civil liberties, and other organizations in the Coalition Against
Religious Discrimination (CARD) in a letter to presidential candidates
Barack Obama and John McCain urging them to clean up the serious flaws
in the Bush Administration’s Faith-Based Initiative. The 5-page letter
concludes: "We urge you to restore religious liberty and civil rights
as critical components of further administration policy."
April 25, 2008
Americans for Religious Liberty has joined six organizations (American Jewish
Committee, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Baptist Joint
Committee for Religious Liberty, Hadassah, The Interfaith Alliance Foundation,
and the Hindu American Foundation) in filing an amicus brief on April 16 urging
the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati to overrule a lower federal
court decision and sustain the principle that government funds may not be used
for direct religious purposes.
March 18, 2007
You can now download an updated PDF file containing the
Congressional Religious Affiliation Count in the 110th Congress - Totals.
Click here to download and view it now.
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your computer to view this file. If you do not have the viewer you can
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December 17, 2006
You can now download an updated PDF file containing the
Religious Affiliations of the 110th Congress
from Americans for Religious Liberty.
Click here to download and view it now.
Please note that you must have the Adobe Acrobat Viewer installed on
your computer to view this file. If you do not have the viewer you can
download it using the following button.
May 1, 2006
Still available is an updated PDF file containing the
Religious Affiliations of the 109th Congress
from Americans for Religious Liberty.
Click here to download and view it now.
January 31, 2006
ARL Goes to Court: Now available is a listing of all the
litigation
in which ARL has been involved since 1982 -- over 60 cases.
Click here to view it now.
July 6, 2005
Now available is a PDF file containing a speech presented by Albert J. Menendez
to the National Education Association Annual Conference in Los Angeles, California
on June 29, 2005.
Click here to download and view it now.
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your computer to view these files. If you do not have the viewer you can
download it using the following button.
May 16, 2005
Now available is a PDF file containing a platform address entitled
Is Government in America Becoming Faith-Based? presented by Edd Doerr
to the New York Society for Ethical Culture on May 8, 2005.
Click here to download and view it now.
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your computer to view these files. If you do not have the viewer you can
download it using the following button.
March 5, 2005
Now available is a PDF file containing
The Importance of Church-State Separation by Edd Doerr.
Click here to download and view it now.
Also available is Religion in the Public Schools: A Joint Statement of
Current Law (April 1995)
Click here to download and view it now.
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your computer to view these files. If you do not have the viewer you can
download it using the following button.
November 10, 2004
You can now download a convenient PDF file containing the
Religious Affiliations of the 109th Congress
from Americans for Religious Liberty.
Click here to download and view it now.
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your computer to view this file. If you do not have the viewer you can
download it using the following button.
September 20, 2004
Americans for Religious Liberty joined with 30 other organizations in the
National Coalition for Public Education in sending the following letter on
September 20, 2004, to the Senate Appropriations Committee urging termination
of school voucher plan for the District of Columbia. D.C. voters had rejected
a similar in a 1981 referendum by a margin of 89% to 11%, and D.C.'s non-voting
congressional delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, has opposed the plan.
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