Morality & Immorality & Social Issues
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Abortion
www.roevbush.com
Center For Reproductive Rights http://www.crlp.org/
Activism Sites
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/
ArtContext http://www.artcontext.org/activism/
e-The-People http://www.e-thepeople.org/
Center For Demcracy & Technology http://www.cdt.org/action/
Consumers Union Action Center http://capwiz.com/consumersunion/home/
Organize Now http://www.organizenow.net/
Working For Change http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/index.cfm
Armchair Activism:
Petition Online http://www.petitiononline.com
The Petition Site http://www.thepetitionsite.com/
Altruism (also see Philanthropy)
Nobel Prize http://www.nobel.no/index.html
Organ Donation
Locks of Love – donate hair to make hairpieces for those with medical hairloss http://www.locksoflove.org/
Volunteering
Idealist http://idealist.com/ip/volunteerOpportunitySearch?MODULE=VOLUNTEER_OPPORTUNITY
VolunteerMatch http://www.volunteermatch.org
Network for Good http://www.networkforgood.org/volunteer/ "...using the Web to help people get more involved in their communities..."
Working For Change http://www.workingforchange.com/
Atheism
http://www.evilbible.com/
http://www.heresyhouse.com/
http://www.shipoffools.com/ "The magazine of Christian unrest"
Bioethics
The Center For Bioethics and Human Dignity http://www.cbhd.org/ A bit too Christo-centric, but has good information.
Excellent bioethics links http://www.cbhd.org/links/index.html
Buddhism
His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama home page http://www.tibet.com/DL/index.html
http://www.dalailama.com/html/
Oneness http://www.chezpaul.org.uk/buddhism/books/oneness/contents.htm an "Introduction to Buddhism" online book
Introduction to Buddhism http://www.nandawon.demon.co.uk/vihara/intro00.htm
Zen stories to tell your neighbors http://www.rider.edu/~suler/zenstory/zenstory.html
Capital Punishment
The Moratorium Campaign http://www.moratoriumcampaign.org/ and its founder, Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ http://www.prejean.org/ Equal Justice USA http://www.quixote.org/ej/index.html
ACLU Death Penalty Campaign http://www.aclu.org/issues/death/hmdp.html
Campaign to End the Death Penalty http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/
Citizens United For Alternatives to the Death Penalty http://www.cuadp.org/
Death Penalty Information Center http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
Friends Committee on National Legislation- Death Penalty http://www.fcnl.org/issues/cri/deaindx.htm
Human Rights Watch: the death penalty in the USA: http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/deathpenalty/
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty http://www.ncadp.org/
Murder Victim's Families for Reconciliation http://www.mvfr.org/
Prison Activist Resource Center http://www.prisonactivist.org/death-penalty/
Prison Talk http://www.PrisonTalk.com/
Students Against the Death Penalty http://www.studentsagainstthedeathpenalty.org/
State Organizations
AK – Alaskans Against the Death Penalty http://www.aadp.info/
AZ – Coalition of Arizonians to Abolish the Death Penalty http://www.azabolitionist.org/
CO – Coloradans Against the Death Penalty http://www.coadp.org/
CT – Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty http://www.nodp.org/cnadp/
CA – Death Penalty Focus of California http://www.deathpenalty.org/
FL – Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty http://www.fadp.org/
FL – South Florida Committee Against the Death Penalty http://www.sfcadp.itgo.com/images.html
IL – Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty http://www.icadp.org/
IA – Iowans Against the Death Penalty http://www.iadp.org/iowa.html
KY – Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty http://www.kcadp.org/
MA –Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty http://www.mcadp.org/
NM – New Mexico Coalition to Repeal the Death Penalty http://nmrepeal.org/
NY – New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty http://www.nyadp.org/
OH – Ohioans to Stop Executions http://www.otse.org/index.html
PA – Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty http://www.pa-abolitionists.org/
TN – Tennessee Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty http://www.tcadp.org/
TX – Texas Moratorium Network http://www.texasmoratorium.org/
VA – Virgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty http://www.vadp.org/
WA – Washington coalition to abolish the death penalty http://www.abolishdeathpenalty.org/index.html
Christianity
http://www.christianstudycenter.com/
Religious, primarily christian, demographics http://www.barna.org/
A good take on Christianity http://www.chezpaul.org.uk/chrstian/index.htm
The Lectionary
Religious Right
Catholiscism
Protestantism
Specific MeetingHouses
VA, Richmond
Frist Baptist Church http://www.fbcrichmond.org/
Grace & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church http://www.ghtc.org/service.htm
Grace Baptist Church http://www.gbconline.org
St. Pauls Episcopal Church http://www.stpauls-episcopal.org/
Consumer Advocacy
Public Citizen http://www.citizen.org/ "a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy org.. represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts"
Creationism v. Evolution
http://www.talkorigins.org/
http://www.talkdesign.org/
http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/other-links.html Excellent links!
National Center for Science Education http://www.ncseweb.org/
Criminal "Justice"
Death Penalty Information Center http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
The Innocence Project http://www.innocenceproject.org/ From 1992 to 2004, at least 149 innocent people
New York Civil Liberties Union on the Death Penalty http://www.nyclu.org/leg_aa_dp1_060602.html
Environment
Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.ucsusa.org/
World Resources Institute http://www.wri.org/
Transportation alternatives, supporting biking, walking, public transit http://www.transalt.org/
Recycling Resources
Recycling in general http://www.earth911.org/
Cell phones www.cellforcash.com www.trademyphone.com
Textbooks
Freecycle - a network of people to give things to http://www.freecycle.org/ Has chapters nationwide
Ethics
Religion and Ethics http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/index.html
Freedom of Inquiry
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/
Humanitarian Issues/Humanitarian Sites
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/
Human Rights Campaign http://www.hrc.org/
International Red Cross http://www.icrc.org/
Immorality – some very scary and sick sights
Alliance Defense Fund http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/ "God ordained marriage to be between one man and one woman."
American Family Association http://www.afa.net/ "America's Largest Pro-Family Action Site"
American Family Radio http://www.afr.net/newafr/default.asp Primary objective is homophobia
American Nazi Party http://www.americannaziparty.com/
American Patriot Friends Network http://www.apfn.org/ Graphics of Bald Eagles and billowing Stars & Stripes dons't make them patriotic
Ann Coulter http://www.anncoulter.org/
Aryan sites
Campaign for California Families www.savecalifornia.com/
Concerned Women for America http://www.cwfa.org/main.asp
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/main_faq.cfm These guye are funded by the food industry
Exodus International http://www.exodus-international.org/ "Question homosexuality. Change is possible."
Focus on the Family http://www.family.org/index.cfm "homosexuality is preventable and treatable" and "Marriage is a sacred union…between one man and one woman."
Family Foundation of Virginia http://www.familyfoundation.org/index.htm
Family Research Council http://www.frc.org/ "Marriage is the union of…a man and a woman."
Heritage Foundation http://www.heritage.org/ "Redefining marriage ... 'threatens the very coherence and stability of marriage as a social institution'" HopeForHomosexuals.com http://www.familypolicy.net/hope/
Jesus Save Us http://objective.jesussave.us/ (actually, we need salvation from sites such as this) Quoth:
Jimmie Swaggart Ministries http://www.jsm.org/ "...if a gay man looks at him the wrong way, he will kill [him] and 'tell God he died'..."
Kingdom Identity Ministries http://www.kingidentity.com/ "...God's chosen race (true Israel, the White, European peoples)."
Liberty Counsel http://www.lc.org/
Maggie Gallagher http://www.marriagedebate.com/ also http://www.maggiegallagher.com/
Missouri Baptist Convention http://www.mbcpathway.com/
Moral Law http://www.morallaw.org/ This is the site of Alabama Justice Roy Moore – email Roy: mailto:info@morallaw.org
National Alliance and Nat'l Vanguard http://www.natall.com/ and http://www.nationalvanguard.org/ ...just another racist group
No Gay Marriage http://www.nogaymarriage.com/
One Million Moms http://www.onemillionmoms.com/ "A Project Of The American Family Association"
Operation Save America http://www.operationsaveamerica.org/index.html
Paige Patterson http://www.swbts.edu/faculty/ppatterson/index.cfm Working hard to keep Baptists in the 6th century
Pastor(?) James Wickstrom http://jameswickstrom.com/ http://www.posse-comitatus.org/ How do you spell R-A-C-I-S-T?
Paul M. Weyrich http://www.freecongress.org/
Phyllis Schlafly http://www.eagleforum.org/
Presidential Prayer Team http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/
Reverend Fred Phelps www.godhatesfags.com
Save The Males http://www.savethemales.ca/index.html "Exposing feminism and the New World Order"
Southern Baptists http://www.sbc.net/ "...marriage is the unity of one man and one woman..." and "...pastoral leadership is assigned to men..."
[Southern] Baptist Press http://www.bpnews.net/
Traditional Values Coalition http://traditionalvalues.org/
TrueCatholic http://www.truecatholic.org/ ("God's One and Only Church")
True Christian http://www.truechristian.com/index.html "Somebody please put a bullet into [Michael Moore's] head!"
Morality – Perhaps a better approach to things
Against marriage amendment http://www.dontamend.com/
http://www.religioustolerance.org/
Another HRC site: http://www.millionformarriage.org/ "Support Marriage Equality for ALL!"
Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/ "Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community"
The Council for Secular Humanism http://www.secularhumanism.org/
From Where I Stand http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/fwis/ The weekly column of Sister Joan Chittister, OSB
Peace
Anti-Defamation Legue http://www.adl.org/
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace http://www.ceip.org/
Community for Peace http://communityforpeace.net/
Council on Foreign Relations http://www.cfr.org/
Feminist Peace Network http://feministpeacenetwork.org/
Peace Action http://www.peace-action.org/
http://www.masturbateforpeace.com/stickers.html
http://www.peacexpeace.org/
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
World Peace http://worldpeace.org.au/index.asp
Good sete of peace metalinks http://www.openheart.com/heartlinks/peaceindex.html
The War in Iraq
Iraq body count http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
another body count http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/USfatalities.html
Iraq Coalition Casualty List http://icasualties.org/oif/
http://www.winwithoutwarus.org/
http://www.bushrecall.org/petition/
http://nationalpriorities.org/ not specifically antiwar, but I like it
http://www.costofwar.com/
http://www.whereisthemoney.org/ nearly parallel to the cost of war
http://www.war101.com/
http://www.ips-dc.org/iraq/costsofwar/index.htm Paying the Price: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War Not just monetary
International Committee of the Red Cross http://www.icrc.org/eng
Geneva Conventions http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/WebCONVFULL!OpenView
Geneva Conventions (alternate view) http://www.globalissuesgroup.com/geneva/texts.html
Uniform Code of Military Justice http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj.htm
United States Institute of Peace http://www.usip.org/"Promoting peaceful resolution of international conflicts."
Anti-war metalinks: http://www.costofwar.com/whoweare.html
Philanthropy
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation http://www.hewlett.org/Default.htm
Evaluating charitable organizations http://www.charitablegift.org/resource/05_t3_eval_charities.shtml
Gifts In Kind http://www.giftsinkind.org/
Religion
BeliefNet http://www.beliefnet.com/ Good coverage of all major religions & fanaticisms
Online ordination http://www.spiritualhumanism.org/
http://www.godchecker.com/ mythological deities from all cultures
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy http://www.vicpp.org/
Another good interfaith resource http://www.chezpaul.org.uk/interfth/index.htm
http://www.datarat.net/DR/FramesLexGloss.html"The Internet's Largest On-Line Theological Glossary !"
Religious Texts: Bible, Qur'an, Vedas, etc. http://www.sacred-texts.com/
CultBusters
Rick A. Ross Inst. of NJ http://www.rickross.com/ A DB of info on cults, controversial groups and movements.
Tracenet http://www.tracenet.org Championing Psychological Freedoms in Cults, Corporations, Nations, and Families
Warfare
International Law of War Assn http://lawofwar.org/ dealing with Geneva Conventions, prisoner abuse, more
Center for Defense Information http://www.cdi.org/
Nuclear threat
Nuclear Threat Initiative http://www.nti.org/
http://www.terrorismanswers.com/home/
http://www.globalsecurity.org/index.html
Nuclear Weapons FAQ http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq0.html
The Nuclear Weapon Archive http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/ A Guide to Nuclear Weapons
Institute for Defense Analysis http://www.ida.org/IDAnew/Welcome/index.html A think-tank for tank-heads
Women's Issues – Related: Feminism
www.womenforwomen.org