Religious Liberty Newsflash!

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The Pacific Union Conference Department of Public Affairs & Religious

Liberty

And the North American Religious Liberty Association - West

Religious Liberty Newsflash!

October 29, 2007

The United States Department of Justice invites you to

a First Freedom Project Seminar:

Federal Laws Protecting Religious Freedom

Thursday, November 29, 2007

U.S. Attorney's Office Training Room

Federal Building, Main Floor

300 North Los Angeles Street

Los Angeles, California

9:00 a.m. to noon

To register for the seminar send your name, organization and phone

number to: FirstFreedom@USDOJ.gov

For more information call Valissa Johnson, 202-514-9470.

Following the Seminar, the North American Religious Liberty Association

- West is hosting an informational luncheon on religious liberty

ministry at::

Sidley Austin, LLP

555 West Fifth Street, Suite 4000

Los Angeles, CA 90010

Time: 12:30 p.m.

To register for the luncheon: call Loritha McDuffie at 805-413-7396.

One of the bright spots of the present administration has been

its development of the First Freedom Project at the Justice Department,

to enforce Federal laws protecting religious freedom. Under the

leadership of Eric Treene, the Justice Department's First Freedom

Project has stepped up its prosecution of religious accommodation

employment discrimination cases; land use cases involving churches and

other religious liberty cases.

Now the First Freedom Project is conducting seminars across the

country to better acquaint citizens with the Federal laws that protect

religious freedom. Admission is free, but space is limited and

registration is required. For more info, contact Valissa Johnson at

202-514-9470.

This program should prove especially interesting for attorneys,

pastors, religious liberty leaders, elders and anyone with an interest

in how our constitution and federal civil rights laws protect religious

freedom. Those working in community services and in inner cities will be

especially interested in the segment addressing discrimination in public

accommodations and facilities. Educators should pay special attention to

segments addressing discrimination in public education. In short, this

seminar will have wide relevance for a great number of individuals.

Following the seminar, the North American Religious Liberty

Association ["NARLA"] invites you to a luncheon. We are grateful to our

friends at the law firm of Sidley & Austin, and especially Jeffrey A.

Berman, Esq., for offering us the use of a conference room there.

Seating will be quite limited, so you need to register in advance by

calling Loritha McDuffie at 805-413-7396. There is no charge for the

luncheon, but attendees will be urged to become members of the North

American Religious Liberty Association, and to become more actively

involved in religious liberty ministry. The keynote speaker for the

luncheon will be Alan J. Reinach, Esq., Director of Public Affairs &

Religious Liberty for the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day

Adventists, and president of NARLA-West. His topic: "For Such a Time as

This!"

NARLA is a ministry of the North American Division of Seventh-day

Adventists. It is a membership organization and is urgently needed to

project the Seventh-day Adventist prophetic message to civic and

political leaders.

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These religious liberty newsflashes and legislative e.lerts are

published by the

Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Department of

Public Affairs & Religious Liberty in conjunction with the North

American Religious Liberty Association - West.

For assistance with a religious liberty problem:

Alan J. Reinach, Esq., misterliberty@churchstate.org; 805-413-7396

Michael D. Peabody, Esq., mpeabody@puconline.org; 916-446-2552

Join the North American Religious Liberty Association:

www.religiousliberty.info.

Contribute to the work of NARLA:

www.religiousliberty.info.

Subscribe to Liberty: a Magazine of Religious

Liberty: www.libertymagazine.org

More info about religious liberty issues:

www.churchstate.org.