Pacific Justice Institute

The Pacific Justice Institute is a Christian legal defense organization in California, USA.[1][2][3]

Overview

The Pacific Justice Institute was founded in 1997.[3] It is headquartered in Sacramento, California.[4] Its president is Brad Dacus, who received an honorary Doctorate of Religious Freedom and Family Rights from California Baptist University.[5][6]

They have supported Christian religious freedom in America schools,[2][6][7][8][9][10][11] homeschooling,[12] the enforcement of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act against anti-religion efforts by local governments,[13] and the recognition of the Ten Commandments as one of America's founding texts.[14]

It has been characterized as belonging to the Christian right.[10]

References

  1. ^ Campus Reform
  2. ^ a b John Philip Habib, 'Eeew, cooties!: Cootie shots, a play about tolerance, has kicked up a ruckus in public schools in Northern California, The Advocate, April 16, 2002 [1]
  3. ^ a b Ann Southworth, 'Lawyers of the right: professionalizing the conservative coalition', Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2008, p. 30 [2]
  4. ^ Official website, Contact us
  5. ^ Official president biography
  6. ^ a b David Limbaugh, Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christians, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2003, p. 210 [3]
  7. ^ Georgiana Preskar, Diversity Addiction: The Cause and the Cure, Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2007, p. 248 [4]
  8. ^ Joel Turtel, Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie to Parents and Betray Our Children, Liberty Books, 2005 [5]
  9. ^ Robert Murray Thomas, God in the classroom: religion and America's public schools, Praeger, 2007, p. 178 [6]
  10. ^ a b Cynthia Burack, Sin, sex, and democracy: antigay rhetoric and the Christian right, State University of New York Press, 2008, p. 166 [7]
  11. ^ Janet Parshall, Craig Parshall, The Light in the City: Why Christians Must Advance and Not Retreat, Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 2000 [8]
  12. ^ Karen Taylor (ed.), The California Homeschool Guide, Bloomington, Indiana: Trafford Publishing, 2006, 2nd edition [9]
  13. ^ Dr. Benjamin Hooks, Freedom: keys to freedom from twenty-one national leaders, Main Street Publications, 2008 p. 42 [10]
  14. ^ William J. Federer, The Ten Commandments & Their Influence on American Law - A Study in History, Amerisearch, Inc., 2002, p. 7 [11]

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