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Show Briscoe attends meeting Raymond G. Briscoe of Bountiful Boun-tiful joined some 200 attorneys, clergy, scholars and other citizens from across the country at the 43rd national conference of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, held near Washington, D.C Sept 22-25. Briscoe, researcher for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, is a member of-tteJ Americans United National Advisory Council (NAf) the organization's 125 -member policy-making body. The theme of the 1990 conference con-ference was 'Religious Liberty and a Changing World." NAC members and other conferees con-ferees discussed the future of religious liberty at home and abroad as American society becomes more religiously diverse and new governments emerge in formerly totalitarian Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Topics discussed included the activities ac-tivities of the Religious Right, the role of religion in public schools, tax aid to religious schools, abortion and the Supreme Court's role in protecting religious liberty. In addition to organizational and officers' meetings, the conference featured a special session to announce an-nounce the release of an ' American United report surveying church-state problems throughout the country over the past year. Rep. Pat Williams of Montana addressed the annual Religious Liberty Awards Banauet. |
