
Religious Liberty Links
- Acton Institute, studies the relationships between religious, economics, and freedom.
- Alliance Defense Fund, shares legal briefs and expertise, information on the opposition, etc. in litigating religious freedom cases.
- American Center for Law and Justice, is a public interest law firm committed to insuring the ongoing viability of constitutional freedoms in accordance with principles of justice.
- American Civil Liberties Union, is a long-established advocacy organization that defends separation of church and state as the best guarantor of religious freedom for all.
- Americans for Religious Liberty, is a strong defender of the separation of church and state.
- Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith, is a well-established Jewish organization that actively participates in many relgious freedom issues.
- American Jewish Committee, actively works to protect religious freedom in the United States for Jews and others.
- American Jewish Congress, has been a frequent participant in major legal battles over religious freedom, filing briefs in important cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and lower Federal and state courts.
- Americans United for Separation of Church and State, is a frequent litigator on religious freedom and stands for a principled separation of church and state. It also publishes monthly a very readable magazine, Church and State.
- Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, defends religious liberty for all, bringing a uniquely Baptist witness to the principle that religion must be freely exercised, neither advanced nor inhibited by government.
- Becket Fund for Relgious Liberty, a bipartisan and ecumenical, public-interest law firm that protects the free expression of all religious traditions. It litigates heavily cases dealing with religious land use.
- Capitol Resource Institute, is a California-based pro-family grassroots organization that frequently engages religious freedom issues.
- Center for the Study of Religious Freedom, located at Virginia Wesleyan College in Virginia Beach, Virginia, offers coursework on religious freedom and church-state relations and actively promotes religious freedom on many fronts.
- Christian Legal Society, Center for Law and Religious Freedom, works to protect the religious liberty of all Americans through litigation and legislative advocacy.
- Cornell Law School, maintains a comprehensive list (with full text) of U.S. Supreme Court decisions affecting religion.
- First Amendment Center of the Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to the First Amendment rights, including religious liberty.
- Focus on the Family's Citizenlink, concentrates on religious liberty issues and works vigorously to protect traditional marriage.
- Friends Committee on National Legislation, advocates peace and social and economic justice on behalf of Quakers and all Americans.
- Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), is a nonprofit advocacy organization that defends the right of parents to direct the education of their children.
- Human Rights Resource Center, of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center, is an excellent source of documents, links and resources on relgious freedom and related issues.
- Interfaith Alliance, is a non-partisan, clergy-led, 150,000 member organization dedicated to advocating a positive role for faith in civic life while respecting church-state separation.
- International Center for Law and Religion Studies, the BYU International Center for Law and Religion Studies works with scholars, government leaders, nongovernmental groups, and religious organizations from a variety of countries and faith traditions, to promote religious liberty and study the relations between governments and religious organizations.
- International Religious Liberty Association, is the oldest international organization addressing religious freedom issues, sponsoring conferences in every continent, and publishing Fides et Liberte.
- J.M. Dawson Institute of Church State Studies, is the oldest facility of its kind located in a university setting. It is exclusively devoted to research in the broad field of church and state and the advancement of religious liberty around the world.
- Liberty Counsel, is a nonprofit civil liberties education and legal defense organization dedicated to preserve religious freedom. Liberty Counsel has over 400 affiliate attorneys throughout the United States with experience in practically every area of law, ranging from antitrust to zoning.
- Liberty Magazine, a respected and highly readable publication of the Seventh-day Adventists.
- North American Religious Liberty Association (NARLA), serves Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska on behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and monitors religious freedom in North America.
- Pacific Justice Institute, oversees a heavy inventory of court cases on religious liberty disputes through a network of over 1,000 affiliate attorneys nationwide.
- People for the American Way, has a long history of defending religious liberty rights for all Americans.
- PRO-S.O.C.S (PRO-Separation of Church & State), is a Texas-base organization that defends separation of church and state and monitors the religious right.
- Relgious Tolerance.org, seeks to provide balanced information about the religious issues that cause conflict.
- Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life, hosts numerous public events discussing major religious freedom issues.
- Rutherford Institute, The Rutherford Institute is a civil liberties organization that provides free legal services to people whose constitutional and human rights have been threatened or violated.
- United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, is a State Department-based organization that monitors religious freedom problems around the world and issues foreign policy recommendations to address problems.
- White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives, represents the executive branch of the U.S. Government in funding faith-based charities.