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ACLU Statement On Texas Appellate Court Decision Regarding Yearning For Zion Ranch (05/22/2008)

ACLU of Maryland Letter to Vice Admiral Jeffrey L. Fowler, United States Naval Academy (05/02/2008)

ACLU Statement On The Government's Actions Regarding The Yearning For Zion Ranch In Eldorado, Texas (05/02/2008)

Christmas and the ACLU (12/13/2007)

Letter from Jeremy Gunn to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (07/24/2007)

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a hearing on June 1, 2007, entitled "The Blaine Amendments and Anti-Catholicism." The ACLU sent a letter to the Commission arguing that although opponents of the so-called "Blaine amendments" (state laws prohibiting government funding of religious education) misleadingly raise the specter of anti-Catholic bias as a reason for repeal, opponents are not able to cite any examples during the last one hundred years where laws have in fact relied on Blaine amendments to justify anti-Catholic bias. Thus "anti-Catholic bias" is a pretext to disguise the real reason opponents want to repeal the Blaine amendments. They want to use taxpayer dollars to pay for religious activities. The Commission's statutory mandate is to focus on discrimination, not to seek pretexts to promote taxpayer funding of religious education.

What Odessa, Texas, Parents Say about Religious Bible Teachings in Public Schools (05/16/2007)

Statement on The Bible in Public Schools: A First Amendment Guide (05/09/2007)

The ACLU and Freedom of Religion and Belief (11/03/2006)

"Public Expression of Religion Act" Threatens Religious Freedom (09/27/2006)
Background, news and resources about the Public Expression of Religion Act.

ACLU Defense of Freedom of Religious Practice and Expression (08/24/2006)
The ACLU vigorously defends the right of Americans to practice religion. But because the ACLU is often better known for its work preventing the government from promoting and funding selected religious activities, it is often wrongly assumed that the ACLU does not zealously defend the rights of religious believers, including Christians, to practice their religion. The cases below - including several where the ACLU even defended the rights of religious believers to condemn homosexuality or abortion - reveal just how mistaken such assumptions are.