Last week about a dozen other bloggers and myself attended Americans United For Separation Of Church And State's national meeting and 60th anniversary reception in Washington, DC. In addition to getting to meet and discuss issues with a large number of enthusiastic, committed activists, chapter leaders and bloggers there were sessions designed to hone our organizing, fund-raising and lobbying skills. Personally, it's sometimes disheartening observing the casual abuse and disregard of our first freedom in this time when religious extremism holds such sway. However the opportunity to join together with both believers and non-believers alike was a great reminder that very many people do take separation of church and state seriously and went a long way toward giving me renewed hope that this freedom that so many take for granted won't be thrown aside because AU will be there fighting for as long as it takes.

So when Beth Corbin, AU's National Field Director and proprietrix of Yikes! volunteered to host this edition of Carnival of the Liberals it was only natural to make church-state separation the theme and dedicate it to AU. Beth's edition is up now. Go read and enjoy.

CotL #52 also marks the end of Carnival of the Liberals' 2nd year. Two Wednesdays hence will be our annual best-of edition hosted by me at Neural Gourmet. I'll post/e-mail details tomorrow. Lastly, I'm now scheduling hosts for our 3rd year. Please e-mail me if you'd like to host. We reward our hosts with extra rations of rum and hard tack. As for the rest of you, the beatings will continue until morale improves.

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