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Parent topics
- Religious freedom [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Human rights [r]: Natural civil and political rights considered universal and applicable to all human beings worldwide. [e]
- Civil rights [r]: Rights considered inherent to members of a society, the arbitrary deprivation of which is subject to enforcement action [e]
Subtopics
Board of Directors
- James A. Autry [r]: Add brief definition or description — Co-Chair
- Lara Bergthold [r]: Act III Productions; co-chair, People for the American Way; board member, Campaign for America’s Future [e] — Co-Chair
- Alec Baldwin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Bellinzoni [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mary Frances Berry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Julian Bond [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John H. Buchanan, Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ron Feldman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- James Hormel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dolores Huerta [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Madeline Janis [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Michael Keegan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Howard Klein [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Norman Lear [r]: American television and film producer and writer; created "All in the Family"; active in progressive causes; cofounder of People for the American Way [e]
- Timothy McDonald [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Payton [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Deborah Rappaport [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Rose [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joshua Sapan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carole Shields [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Clyde Shorey [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Margery Tabankin [r]: American political consultant associated with progressive causes; Director, Defenders of Wildlife; Executive Director, Stephen Spielberg's Righteous Persons Foundation; President, the Barbra Streisand Foundation; board member, People for the American Way and Institute for America’s Future [e]
- Reg Weaver [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Geraldine Day Zurn [r]: Add brief definition or description
Sympathetic groups
- Americans United for Separation of Church and State [r]: A group, often called Americans United (AU) for short, which, through education and legal action, works to maintain a strict separation between religion and government in the U.S. [e]
- American Civil Liberties Union [r]: American political action group founded in 1920 for protection of civil liberties. [e]
Opposing groups
- American Family Association [r]: A Christian Right, social conservative group formed in 1977 by Donald Wildmon (originally called the National Federation for Decency but was changed to American Family Association (AFA) in 1988); owns and operates approximately 200 American Family Radio stations and publishes on the Web and in print; pushes advertisers not to support objectionable television and "communicate[s] an outspoken, resolute, Christian voice throughout America..[in]...America’s culture war"; affiliated with Tea Party Movement; Affiliate, Alliance Defense Fund [e]
- Moral Majority [r]: A Christian Right political action group founded in 1979 by Jerry Falwell, Sr. and disbanded in 1989 so he could focus on Liberty University; The Moral Majority Coalition revived the term in 2004 [e]
- Anita Bryant Ministries International [r]: Add brief definition or description