The National Liberal League (1876 – c.1885) of the United States advocated separation of church and state and the freedom of religion. The league evolved into the American Secular Union in 1884. The First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis grew directly out of the chapter there.
13-798: Liberal League may refer to: National Liberal League (United States) , an American organization 1876-1885 Liberal League (Finland) , a political party in Finland Liberal League (Japan) , a political party in Japan Liberal League (Luxembourg) , a political party in Luxembourg Liberal League (United Kingdom) , a grouping within the British Liberal Party Liberal Alliance of Montenegro , also referred to as
26-504: A co-plaintiff in the successful U.S. District Court lawsuit, Asimov v. United States , against the U.S. Department of Education, brought by the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee . As of 2019, Edwords was one of the plaintiffs in a case that started in 2014 as American Humanist Association et al v. Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission , a federal lawsuit on appeal to
39-727: Is an agnostic or ignostic humanist leader in Washington DC . Edwords has worked with the American Humanist Association in several capacities. From 1980 to 1984 he was national administrator, then executive director from 1984 to 1999 and editor of the American Humanist Association's magazine, the Humanist , from 1995 to 2006. Edwords was also editor of the association's membership newsletter Free Mind from 2002 to 2006 and
52-571: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages National Liberal League (United States) The National Liberal League was one of the first national organizations dedicated to separating church and state. It was presaged by a series of local organizations that emerged before the Civil War that sought to combat Sunday laws, bible-reading in public schools, and other government policies perceived to violate religious liberty. These issues would concern
65-784: The Creation/Evolution journal from 1980 to 1991. He later worked as director of planned giving for their endowment fund, the Humanist Foundation. Edwords was national director of the United Coalition of Reason from 2009 to 2015, president of Camp Quest , Inc., from 2002 to 2005, and on the staff of the Ohio camp from 1998 to 2008. He was also vice president of the North American Committee for Humanism from 1990 to 1992 and president of
78-776: The U.S. Supreme Court that is aimed at removing a 40 foot tall Latin cross on public property in Bladensburg, Maryland . Edwords was named Rationalist of the Year by the American Rationalist Federation in 1984, received the Humanist Pioneer Award of the American Humanist Association in 1986, was named a HumCon Pioneer by the Alliance of Humanist, Atheist, and Ethical Culture Organizations of Los Angeles County in 1992., and received
91-627: The American Secular Union split off, and resumed use of the older "National Liberal League" name. The name was again in use circa 1945 by an organization which is claimed to have been unrelated. During Eisenhower's presidency, the National Liberal League questioned the appointment of William Brennan to the Supreme Court. In the 1960s, James Hervey Johnson is reported to have assumed the leadership of
104-678: The Humanist Association of San Diego in 1978. He has served on the boards of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (1986–1999), the New York Council for Evolution Education (1982–1994), and the National Center for Science Education (1982–1992). He was chair of the American Humanist Association's Humanist Manifesto III Drafting Committee from 2002 to 2003. On August 7, 1985, he became
117-575: The Liberal League of Montenegro Tasmanian Liberal League Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Liberal League . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liberal_League&oldid=869295433 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
130-647: The National Liberal League of that era. Current era records suggest that Johnson relocated operations in his era of the 1947-founded organization to California, that the organization renamed itself in 1966 to the "National League For The Separation Of Church And State", and that subsequent to Johnson's death an organization of that name continued in New York, with leadership passing to Fred Edwords . National Reform Association (1864) Fred Edwords Fred Edwords , born July 19, 1948, in San Diego, California ,
143-534: The National Liberal League that formed in the 1870s. Officers included Francis E. Abbott , T.B. Wakeman , Elizur Wright , Robert G. Ingersoll , and others. Annual conventions took place in Syracuse (1878) Cincinnati (1879), St. Louis (1882), Milwaukee (1883), and Cleveland (1885). In 1884 The Radical Review observed that the League "gave promises of great usefulness in the early years of its existence. In
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#1732765012912156-484: The constitutionality of the so-called Comstock law of 1873 ." Ingersoll resigned from his vice-presidency after the 1879 convention, in opposition to an adopted motion to provide a general defense, rather than his preference to exclude distributors of prurient material and only defend "real Freethought". The league evolved into the American Secular Union around 1885. Circa November 1901, a faction of
169-402: The fall of 1878 its activity was crippled by the appearance of some of those internal strifes and dissentions which seem to be the inevitable accompaniment of the development of all reformatory organisations. To screen personal animosities, always contemptible, side issues were introduced, and the essential aim of the League lost sight of. ... The National Liberal League split on the discussion of
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