Members of the Yale-New Haven community can express their views on such topics as censorship in school and public libraries, school prayer, abortion, and separation of church and state at a national teleconference titled "Freedom of Conscience and the Radical Right" on Saturday, Sept. 14.
The University Chaplain's Office is cosponsoring the live-via- satellite event, the first United Church of Christ Teleconference. U.S. Representatives Pat Schroeder, D-Colorado, and Maxine Waters, D- California, will join National Public Radio's Ray Suarez for the panel discussion, which will be moderated by Ambassador Andrew Young. During the telecast, the panelists will take questions and comments from participants across the nation by phone, e-mail and fax .
The goals of the teleconference, say its organizers, are: "looking at how the radicial religious right is active in local, state and national elections," "finding out what Christians who want to raise a different voice can do" and "putting faith into action through election and the political process."
Those interested in participating in the teleconference should gather in Davies Auditorium, Becton Applied Science Center, 15 Prospect St. The event begins promptly at 1 p.m.