When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

                           Benjamin Franklin



  ARL in the News

  ARL Goes to Court

  Journal/Newsletter -
  The Voice of Reason

  ARL Publications

  ARL Articles

  About ARL

  Contact ARL

  Join ARL

 

Since it was founded in 1981 Americans for Religious Liberty has steadfastly supported the constitutional principle of separation of church and state that is the indispensable guarantor of religious and intellectual freedom, religiously neutral democratic public education, and individual freedom of conscience.

ARL has promoted and defended this principle through publishing, research, litigation, coalition building, public speaking, expert testimony before national and state legislative committees. ARL regularly cooperates with a wide range of civil liberties, educational, religious, labor, and reproductive rights groups.

ARL is open to all who share its dedication to defending and advancing church-state separation.

In a world where many voices of extremism seek to subvert freedom, we need to be voices of reason and to rally to its support.

-- Edd Doerr, President


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.

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.

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.

Please note that you must have the Adobe Acrobat Viewer installed on 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.

Please note that you must have the Adobe Acrobat Viewer installed on 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.

Please note that you must have the Adobe Acrobat Viewer installed on 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.

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.

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.


Americans for Religious Liberty - P.O.Box 6656 - Silver Spring, MD 20916
Telephone: 301-260-2988 - Fax: 301-260-2989 - Email: arlinc@verizon.net