Atheist Group Takes on Bush Initiative

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Once-Obscure Atheist Group Takes on Bush's Faith-Based Initiative at Supreme Court

Annie Laurie Gaylor speaks with a soft voice, but her message catches attention: Keep God out of government.

Gaylor has helped transform the Freedom From Religion Foundation from obscurity into the nation's largest group of atheists and agnostics, with a fast-rising membership and increasing legal clout.

Next week, the group started by Gaylor and her mother in the 1970s to take on the religious right will fight its most high-profile battle when the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on its lawsuit against President Bush's faith-based initiative.

The court will decide whether taxpayers can sue over federal funding that the foundation believes promotes religion. It could be a major ruling for groups that fight to keep church and state separate.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2894590

[Kare]

1. Good for them

I hope they win that one.

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2. This ought to be interesting! n/t