Two Action Alerts
Write TIME, Educate Napolitano
February 3, 2005
Below are two action alerts:
Action Alert #1. Write TIME.
This week's cover story, "The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America: What Does Bush Owe Them? Do the Democrats Need More Religion" (Feb. 7, 2005) showcases an alarming collection of fundamentalists, who either have frightening access to Pres. Bush, or were apparently chosen for raking in a lot of "filthy lucre" marketing Christianity.
Have fun with this assignment! Please write:
letters@time.com
TIME Magazine
Letters
Time & Life Bldg
Rockefeller Center
New York, NY 10020
Fax 1/212/522-8949
Be very brief, and include your full name, address and home telephone.
Action Alert # 2. Write Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano.
Public officials partnering with far-right evangelical groups to fight against the separation of church and state is an alarming trend. This week, it was reported that Arizona's Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano, along with her Secretary of State and leaders of the Arizona House and Senate, have joined a friend of the court brief by the arch-right Center for Arizona Policy to promote Ten Commandments on Capitol grounds.
This brief goes before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case challenging a Ten Commandments monument on Capitol grounds in Texas. Napolitano and the Arizona Legislature are on record endorsing the continuing presence of a similar Old Testament marker on Wesley Bolin Plaza, near the Capitol in Phoenix. Arizona officials are openly aligning themselves with an anti-abortion, anti-gay, church-connected organization which does not believe in the separation of church and state!
Here is a recent news story on the development.
The Center for Arizona Policy website describes its mission in this manner:
"We battle organizations like Planned Parenthood, the ACLU and gay rights groups that seek to destroy traditional families and traditional moral values. We have developed strong bonds with friends like Arizona Right to Life, Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Arizona Families for Home Education, Alliance Defense Fund, and many others including local churches.
"CAP has been selected and endorsed by Dr. Dobson and Focus on the Family to be the Family Policy Council for Arizona. CAP is deeply grateful for Focus on the Family's support through the provision of research, promotion, materials, prayers and guidance."
Please write to protest this unsavory union between government and a religious-right organization, or to educate about why it is inappropriate for the Ten Commandments to be endorsed by our secular government:
The Honorable Janet Napolitano
Governor of Arizona
1700 West Washington
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
Telephone 602/542-4331
Fax 602/542-1381
To email, click here
(If you are an Arizona citizen, you may wish to contact other officials as well.)
Or write a letter to the editor:
The Arizona Republic
Letters to the Editor
200 E Van Buren
Phoenix AZ 85004
To email, click here.
Include full name, address, daytime phone. Word limit is 200.
As always, for maximum effectiveness, we ask that you write as an individual (not identifying yourself as a member of FFRF). Be firm, but civil and succinct, concentrating on one or two main points. If convenient, we enjoy seeing "blind copies" of your letters or emails. Send to: algaylor@ffrf.org, or to Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF, PO Box 750, Madison WI 53701. Thank you!