For Tuesday:
- Cigler, ch. 13, 15
- Drutman, ch. 10.
Citizen Suits
- Clean Water Act
- Safe Drinking Water Act
- Clean Air Act 1970
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
Litigation
- Slave revolts: Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner
- John Brown
- Stephen A. Douglas objected: "It is true that they describe themselves as ministers of the gospel, but they claim to speak in the name of the Almighty on a political question pending in the Congress of the United States. It is an attempt to establish in this country the doctrine that a body of men, organized and known among the people as clergymen, have a peculiar right to determine the will of God in relation to legislative action. It is an attempt to establish a theocracy to take charge of our politics and our legislation. It is an attempt to make the legislative power of this country subordinate to the Church."
The Civil War left US religion even more decentralized: some Protestant denominations (e.g., Baptists) broke into Northern and Southern wings.
The Social Gospel Movement and ... The American Economics Association
Prohibition, Evangelicals, and the Scopes Case
The Civil Rights Movement and SCLC
"I have observed with profound sorrow the role that many religious leaders have played in urging passage of this bill, because I cannot make their activities jibe with my concept of the proper place of religious leaders in our national life … This is the second time in my lifetime an effort has been made by the clergy to make a moral question of a political issue. The other was prohibition. We know something of the results of that." -- Senator Richard Russell, arguing against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Congressional Record, June 10, 1964, p. 13309.
The Religious Right in the 1980s and The Johnson Amendment
Current status
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