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Causes: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Voter Education & Registration, Voting Rights
Mission: Americans United was founded in 1947 by a distinguished group of political, religious and educational leaders seeking to defend the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom. AU's primary task is educating the American public about the importance of religious liberty through the separation of church and state and defending that crucial constitutional principle against attacks by extremist Religious Right groups such as the Christian Coalition. Americans United currently represents more than 60,000 individuals nationally with about 1000 in Georgia, as well as 3,000 cooperating churches and other religious bodies. Americans from many different faiths-and some who profess no particular religious affiliation-have joined together to promote full religious freedom for all.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.