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Americans United for Separation of Church and State is a non-partisan educational organization dedicated to preserving the constitutional principle of church-state separation as the only way to ensure religious freedom for all Americans. The Orange County Chapter holds monthly meetings bringing timely information on local and national issues.
Is the issue of separation of church and state important to you? Are you looking for like minded people who will protect our First Amendment Rights? Are you looking for ways to counter the Religious Right's assault on our secular government? If your answer is yes, please join us!<br>
We invite people to join Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Your $35 membership fee provides you with both chapter affiliation and national membership, including a subscription to Church and State Magazine.
Membership is $35 per year and includes membership in both the Orange County Chapter and the national organization. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State is a 501c3 organization. All donations above $5 (value of Church and State Magazine) are tax deductible. Join or donate here https://bit.ly/AUOCPaypal<br>
If you choose to donate directly to AU National, please affiliate with the Orange County Chapter, it will help us continue our work behind the Orange Curtain.<br>
Regarding our location:<br> The Irvine Ranch Water District neither supports nor endorses the cause nor activities of organizations which use the District’s meeting rooms that are made available as a public service.<br>
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OnlineLet's join our friends at the Humanist Association of Orange County.
Why won’t racism and racial injustice go away? In this talk, I will argue that race has become entangled with religion, taking on transcendent qualities. The result is the emergence of a religion called the Religion of Whiteness, a powerful influence on the lives of millions of people, and harming both Christianity and human communities. This presentation will help us better understand why people become so invested in protecting whiteness, why they are often so passionately committed to maintaining racial inequality, and how to make positive change.
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Michael O. Emerson is the Director of the Religion and Public Policy Program and the Harry and Hazel Chavanne Fellow in Religion and Public Policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, the nation’s top-rated academic think tank (https://www.bakerinstitute.org/program/religion-and-public-policy).
Emerson’s work focuses primarily on the intersection of religion, race, and politics. Increasingly, his work focuses on religion and its public policy implications. He has co-authored 16 books, most recently The Religion of Whiteness: How Racism Distorts Christianity (Oxford, 2024), Kingdom Racial Change: Moving from Inequality, Injustice, and Indifference (Eerdmans, 2025), and the 25th Anniversary Edition of Divided by Faith (Oxford, Nov. 17, 2025).
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