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	<title>The Wall of Separation</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Lost Weekend: Religious Right Seeks Two-Day Ten Commandments Confab</title>
		<link>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/13/lost-weekend-religious-right-seeks-twoday-ten-commandments-confab/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/13/lost-weekend-religious-right-seeks-twoday-ten-commandments-confab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Boston</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Religion in Public Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Religious Right Watch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Religious Symbols on Public Property]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pelosi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reid]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ten commandaments]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Gas is inching up to $4 per gallon, rice has doubled in price, home foreclosures continue to spiral and more than 80 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong track.
What’s to be done? According to the Religious Right, it’s time for a Ten Commandments Weekend!
Bill Murray, chairman, founder and possibly the only [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mob Rule In School?: Louisiana Parish Lets Student Majority Decide On Prayers</title>
		<link>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/12/mob-rule-in-school-louisiana-parish-lets-student-majority-decide-on-prayers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/12/mob-rule-in-school-louisiana-parish-lets-student-majority-decide-on-prayers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 15:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Boston</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Religion in Public Schools]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[graduation prayer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ouachita]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Generally speaking, elections are good things. When you need a new mayor, member of Congress, senator, etc., a fair election is the best way to get one.
Making decisions by majority vote is often another nice feature of our political system. When the city council is trying to decide whether to repair sidewalks or replace street [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Pulpit Plot: ADF Schemes To Test Tax-Law Limits On Church Partisanship</title>
		<link>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/09/pulpit-plot-adf-schemes-to-test-taxlaw-limits-on-church-partisanship/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/09/pulpit-plot-adf-schemes-to-test-taxlaw-limits-on-church-partisanship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph L. Conn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Church Politicking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[alliance defense fund]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[internal revenue service]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Do churches have the right to violate federal tax law and use the donations of the faithful to engage in partisan politics? Religious Right activists seem to think so, and they’re pressing for a test case in federal court.
According to today’s Wall Street Journal, the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) is conspiring with a handful of [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mr. Freshwater’s War: Discord Among Ohio Students Shows Need For School Neutrality On Religion</title>
		<link>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/08/mr-freshwaters-war-discord-among-ohio-students-shows-need-for-school-neutrality-on-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/08/mr-freshwaters-war-discord-among-ohio-students-shows-need-for-school-neutrality-on-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Boston</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Religion in Public Schools]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[public schools]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When I was in the 10th grade, officials at my public high school did a really foolish thing: They agreed to allow a group of fundamentalist Christian athletes to speak on campus at a mandatory assembly.
When some parents complained, the event was moved to a private facility off campus but still during the school day. [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Murky Manifesto: Evangelical Statement Repudiates Theocracy – Sort Of</title>
		<link>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/07/murky-manifesto-evangelical-statement-repudiates-theocracy-sort-of/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/07/murky-manifesto-evangelical-statement-repudiates-theocracy-sort-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph L. Conn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[James Dobson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Religion in Public Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Religious Right Watch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[evangelical]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Rev. John Huffman is an evangelical Christian and pastor of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, Calif.
After seeing some of the more lurid representatives of evangelicalism on television, his daughters came to him and asked, “Dad, are you one of those?
To set the record straight, a horrified Huffman and over 70 other evangelicals [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Evangelical Angst: ‘Moderate’ Evangelicals Worry About The Movement’s Image</title>
		<link>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/06/evangelical-angst-moderate-evangelicals-worry-about-the-movements-image/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/06/evangelical-angst-moderate-evangelicals-worry-about-the-movements-image/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 16:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Boston</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[James Dobson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pat Robertson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Religion in Public Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Religious Right Watch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[evangelicals]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[How do you react when people tell you they’re evangelicals?
Do you think that they simply want to share their faith – or do you start making assumptions about their political views?
A lot of Americans would say the latter. Over the years, evangelicalism has become so tied to right-wing politics that many people assume that anyone [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bible Imbroglio: Texas Students Face Pressure To Take New Testaments</title>
		<link>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/05/bible-imbroglio-texas-students-face-pressure-to-take-new-testaments/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/05/bible-imbroglio-texas-students-face-pressure-to-take-new-testaments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph L. Conn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Religion in Public Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Religion in Public Schools]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gideons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Plano]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Jewish students at a public school in Plano, Texas, say they have been pressured by classmates to pick up copies of the New Testament and taunted if they didn’t.
According to The Dallas Morning News, Gideons International, an evangelical Christian group, set up display tables in a dozen Plano schools in recent months that offered free [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Lessons From Lauren: What I Learned In My Tenure At Americans United</title>
		<link>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/02/lessons-from-lauren-what-i-learned-in-my-tenure-at-americans-united/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/02/lessons-from-lauren-what-i-learned-in-my-tenure-at-americans-united/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 16:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Inside AU]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Today is my last day at Americans  United. Before I go off to law school, I want to reflect on the many valuable lessons I’ve learned in my three years as a communications assistant here.
1) People aren’t afraid to tell you to go to hell, so don’t take it personally. 
Part of my job [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bully Pulpit: President Bush Offers An Amen To The Dobsons’ Dubious Agenda</title>
		<link>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/01/bully-pulpit-president-bush-offers-an-amen-to-the-dobsons-dubious-agenda/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.au.org/2008/05/01/bully-pulpit-president-bush-offers-an-amen-to-the-dobsons-dubious-agenda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 15:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph L. Conn</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of Religion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Government-Sponsored Religion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[James Dobson]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It’s no surprise that Religious Right leaders James and Shirley Dobson dropped by the White House this morning to join the National Day of Prayer (NDP) observance there. The Dobsons have been strong supporters of President George W. Bush, and Shirley heads the NDP Task Force, a private group that promotes fundamentalist Christian-oriented NDP events [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Capital Opportunity: Congress Should Flunk D.C. School Voucher Scheme</title>
		<link>http://blog.au.org/2008/04/30/capital-opportunity-congress-should-flunk-dc-school-voucher-scheme-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.au.org/2008/04/30/capital-opportunity-congress-should-flunk-dc-school-voucher-scheme-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[On the Hill]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Religious School Vouchers]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A House appropriations subcommittee holds hearings today on whether to renew Washington,  D.C.’s school voucher scheme. The “Opportunity Scholarship Program,” which has an annual budget of $15 million, provides 1,900 vouchers worth up to $7,500 each for students to attend religious and other private schools in the nation’s capital.
President George W. Bush has allocated [...]]]></content:encoded>
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