Annual Meeting set for November 17, call for volunteers: The AU-Hawaii Board is soliciting members to step-forward to serve on the board and handle some of the usual administrative matters related to maintaining accurate financial accounts. The Treasurer has set up an easy-to-maintain system for any member interested in handling the job. Volunteers with WEB-making expertise are also needed as well as folks willing to handle various aspects of our quarterly newsletter.
The Board meets quarterly (four times a year) and conducts a lot of its business by e-mail, by phone and by our secure Message Board, so Oahu, Maui, Kauai and Molokai members should not be shy to step forward to volunteer. Send an e-mail note to our Secretary at: au_hawaii@yahoo.com so that he can place your name on the agenda at our annual general membership meeting in November when we elect officers and directors for the upcoming fiscal year (Nov. 2001-Nov. 2002). Mahalo in advance!

 

For Immediate Release -- 9 pm August 26, 2001

Americans United Re-Affirms Commitment to Religious Liberty

The 200-member Hawaii Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, reaffirmed its commitment to religious liberty and the First Amendment of the United States Constitution when its Hawaii Board of Directors approved a motion by Edward Clark, Chapter President, to support Rev. Jonathan Adler in his current effort to practice his religion while using cannabis as an integral part of his church services.

The board action was taken at the Americans United Hawaii Chapter's third quarterly meeting held last night at the residence of Edward Clark, Chapter President, in Puna.

Edward Clark, who does not use cannabis, pointed out that the fundamental purpose of Americans United is to support religious liberty. Clark was one of the leaders in the successful fight last month to stop the Board of Education effort to allow the teaching of
creationism as a science in Hawaii schools.

He teamed up with Rev. Barry Lynn, Executive Director of Americans United, to submit one of the most thorough legal briefs to the Board of Education on the issue of creationism and public education.

Americans United is a non-partisan, tax-exempt educational organization that defends the constitutional rights of citizens and taxpayers as well as the independence of religious institutions. The Hawaii Chapter was established two years ago and
is based on the Big Island.

The Hawaii Chapter's fourth quarterly Board and General Membership meeting, which is open to the public, is scheduled for November 17 at 5:30 p.m. at the UH-Hilo Campus Center. The meeting is co-sponsored by the Americans United UH Chapter headed by UH junior, Patrick Boswell and sophomore Rick Champion.

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For more information: http://www.geocities.com/au_hawaii
Edward Clark, President, 966-7966 AU-Hawaii Secretary/Treasurer, 968-8347

 

To: AU Chapter Leaders, Aligned Group Leaders and Regional Organizers.
From: Ken Brooker Langston, AU National Field Director
Received: Aug. 28, 2001
Subj: Barry Lynn is now on AU RADIO !

Please be aware and make others aware of the fact that Barry Lynn can now be heard regularly on AU RADIO at http://www.au.org/auradio.htm (Right now, Barry's on a short but much-deserved vacation.)

Fans and AU supporters can use this time to listen to some of his recent recordings on such matters as vouchers, creationism, charitable choice, religioin in public schools and many other important church-state issues).

Enjoy--and please share with your friends, allies and co-workers!

IMPORTANT REMINDER: Also, don't forget to use this time, while Congress is still in recess, to contact your Senators and voice your opposition to "charitable choice." Call the local offices, set up meetings and write letters. For help on this issue, visit http://www.au.org/charchoice107.htm and http://www.stopreligiousdiscrimination.org. Good luck!

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Ken Brooker Langston, National Field Director
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
518 C Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002
202-466-3234 ext.217 phone, 202-466-2587 fax
langston@au.org

 

Quarterly Newsletter is in the mail, Aug. 14: Our 8-page quarterly newsletter is in the mail to all paid-up AU members, and it should be in your mailbox by tomorrow (Wed. Aug. 15).

If you do NOT get a copy by this Friday (Aug. 17), it means that you need to send in your annual dues to AU National HQ which supplies us with the mailing labels. If you want a copy, please send us a snail-mail message, hopefully with a 34 cent stamp in it so that we can mail it to you. If you're broke and can't afford the 34 cent stamp, send us an e-mail message and give us your snail mail address and we'll mail the latest copy to you for free. (We'll do this as long as we don't get deluged with with such requests since each copy costs us close to 75 cents to print and mail.)

Please do it right away! Your dues (half of which comes back to our local chapter) helps to pay for the printing and postage. Mahalo in advance for your kokua. Check your "inbox" for a letter from AU with return envelop for your renewal. If you lost it, just send your tax-deductible $25 check directly to: Americans United, 518 C St., N.E., Washington, D.C. 2002. Do NOT send money to us. Be sure to write a note on your check that you are a Hawaii member. Otherwise, they won't send back half of it to us to help pay for our quarterly hardcopy newsletters and other AU related activities. :) I

 

Alert to members from AU National Office, Aug. 14: Rena Levin, one of the field coordinators, called this morning to request that members call U.S. Senators Akaka and Inouye to find out their views on the charitable choice and also to let them know they have a constituent (you) interested in the issue.

The local phone numbers to call are: Senator Akaka: Big Island, 935-1114; Oahu, 522-897, Senator Inouye: Big Island, 935-0844; Oahu, 541-2542

For background information on the issue, click on the National AU link. When you get a response from the Senators, please report it to Rena Levin at our national office. Her e-mail address is: levin@au.org. Do your part to help our national office protect our nation's constitution from extremists bend on destroying our country as we know it.

 

They won't quit. See today's (Aug. 7) latest news on what a biblical zealot just did: Alabama Supreme Court Justice posts Ten Commandments

 

School Board votes down Creationism as Science is front page news today (Aug. 3) in a report by Jennifer Hiller of the Honolulu Advertiser. Click Here.

Also, the Honolulu Star Bulletin's electronic "Late Breaking" link published Crystal Kua's report soon after the conclusion of the school board meeting last night (Aug. 2). Click Here

Finally, here's the Associated Press report by AP Writer Bruce Dunford that made it into today's (Aug. 3) The New York Times, Click Here

 

School Board Divided over adding Creationism Theory is front page headline in today's (Aug. 2) Honolulu Advertiser which also notes that AU member Mitch Kahle's Hawaii Citizens for the Separation of State & Churchorganization is threatening a lawsuit if the board allows teaching biblical creationism as a science in Hawaii schools. Click Here.

 

Creationism Fight Looms is the front page headline in the Aug. 1 Star Bulletin. Click Here.

Letters to the Editor in the Aug. 1 Honolulu Advertiser against teaching creationism as a science from Nick Whitney, Rev. Mike Young, Stuart Weinstein, John Shen, Daniel Chung, Pamela Magee and Jim Henshaw. Click Here.