Friday, July 29, 2011

Wisconsin Website Links To Christian Pregnancy Centers Are Protested

According to yesterday's Madison (WI) Isthmus, the Freedom from Religion Foundation has written Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker complaining about a link on the state's website to Care Net Pregnancy Centers. (Full text of July 14 letter.) The link appears on the Family Services page of the website along with other links, most of which are to government agencies. In its July 22 press release announcing the letter, FFRF said:
Care Net promotes a rabid evangelical Christian agenda, and is hostile to nonbelievers, non-Christians and nonevangelicals, as well as the feminist principle of a woman’s right to reproductive self-determination. Care Net proclaims that it has adapted a statement of faith from the National Association of Evangelicals. The NAE's professed government-relations goal is “Bringing biblical values to the political sphere.” No state government office should have any affiliation with a group that has a “statement of faith”....