A HUMANIST POSITION ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Religious liberty means freedom for all: freedom to peacefully affirm and practice a faith, freedom from religious coercion, and freedom to peacefully leave or reject a faith. Such religious liberty is and always has been a central tenet of Humanism (http://www.americanhumanist.org/press/IslamStatement.php).
To read more on this subject go to:
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
America’s legacy of religious liberty
Prayer and the public schools – Religion, education, and your rights
Science, religion, and public education- An evolving controversy
Is America A ‘Christian Nation’? Religion, government and individual freedom
Religion, partisan politics and tax exemption- What federal law requires and why
The ‘Faith-Based’ initiatives – Churches, social services and your tax dollars
Should you pay taxes – to support religious schools?
Church, state and your freedom at risk! The religious right’s war on LGBT Americans
Filed under: Discussion, Humanist Positions, humanism
What is your group’s opinion about the philosophy of Barack Obama’s pastor, Wright? I am not asking for a political commitment - just the humanist view of the words we have heard from the pastor. In spite of Obama’s high intelligence, I fear his devotion to church - and to such a church.