All Chapter members are invited to attend the Houston Chapter Annual Meeting on May 19th from 5-7 PM. We will be Honoring Retiring State Representative Scott Hochberg and Longtime AU Activists James and Charlcye Sells. Please RSVP by 5/12/2012 to americansunited.houstonchapter@gmail.com This...

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Tuesday, March 27th  “How to be a Religious Freedom Advocate” First Unitarian Universalist Church Fireside Room, 5200 Fannin St at 7pm Learn about challenges to religious freedom and how you can protect the right of all Texans.  Houston AU Vice President David Furlow will be speaking. http://www.aclutx.org/event/how-to-be-a-religious-freedom-advocate/

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JG72-Rg0_Q&list=UUKRG-bLpe0NgvjEYQRuYb7w&index=2&feature=plcp  

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The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning documentary that tells the compelling personal story of the late Vashti McCollum, and how her efforts to protect her ten year-old son, Jim, led to one of the most important and landmark First Amendment cases in U.S. Supreme Court...

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Two courageous Houston-area families and their attorneys will tell the compelling stories of their successful efforts to assert their rights to express their religious beliefs David Chalifoux and his attorney, Brent C. Perry -- Catholic high school student banned from wearing rosary beads outside his clothing...

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Holy Trinity of God, Texas and Secession Stars in Cautionary Comic Book Series AFTER TWILIGHT New comic book series asks, “How do you fight a state with God on its side?” Texas, 2022—The Lone Star State is in a bloody war with the United States to become a separate fundamentalist Christian...

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Join us for a  Celebration of the First Amendment  presented by  The Greater Houston Area Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State  and co-sponsored by American Constitution Society and Rothko Chapel Two courageous Houston-area families and their attorneys will tell...

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David Furlow has authored an article in the Journal of the Texas Supreme Court  Historical Society on the early law in Texas titled:  The Continuing Influence of Castilian Law.    Long ago, the Justices of the Texas Supreme Court incorporated the Castilian legal tradition into the fabric of Texas...

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By Reverend Don Wilkey Jr., Member Americans United Greater Houston Chapter.      In the early seventies, when I entered seminary, I had not heard much of the doctrine of 5- point Calvinism.  I was remotely familiar with fatalism, but found the idea of people not having a choice as to whether or not to believe...

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Thanks in part to a demand letter from Americans United, four crosses have been removed from a tower on the new Texas A&M University-San Antonio campus. On Nov. 17, AU sent a letter to San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro and City Manager Sheryl Scully, as well as Texas A&M University-San Antonio...

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