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Because eternal vigilance is still the price of liberty, the Seventh-day Adventist Church State Council works diligently in courts, legislatures, and through public education to promote your religious freedom. What do we do?

  • File briefs in important state and Federal cases involving significant religious liberty principles.
     
  • Monitor legislation throughout the five western state territory of California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Hawaii, that may impact on religious freedom.
     
  • Help employees obtain religious accommodation from their employer, especially those with job schedules that conflict with religious observances, such as the Seventh-day Sabbath and those who have religious objections to labor unions.
     
  • Assist people with a wide variety of religious liberty problems.
     
  • Produce Freedom’s Ring, a weekly radio broadcast in partnership with the North American Religious Liberty Association
     
  • Produce public service radio spots communicating the values and principles   
    of religious freedom across the United States
     
  • Conduct radio interviews across the country
     
  • Publish articles and brochures on religious liberty issues.
     
  • Speaking and preaching at churches, clergy groups, community groups and wherever the opportunity opens to champion the cause of religious freedom.
     
  • Provide leadership to the interfaith community on religious liberty issues

    To read our brochure on the Church State Council including our statement of principles, who we are and what we do, click on the pamphlet above. It is an Adobe Acrobat document. You will need acrobat reader. If you do not have the free acrobat reader go to www.adobe.com and download the free reader utility.
     
 
 

Alan J. Reinach, Esq.
President
Seventh-day Adventist
Church State Council
Box 5005
Westlake Village, CA 91359 
Phone: 805-413-7398
Fax: 805-495-2644
ajreinach@churchstate.org

Alan J. Reinach, Esq., serves as the President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church State Council. He is an attorney and a Seventh-day Adventist minister. A graduate of the State University of New York, in New Paltz, with special honors in history, in 1984, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Law, in 1987.

Reinach represents employees who have suffered religious discrimination, and has filed briefs in religious liberty cases in state and Federal courts, and in the California and United States Supreme Court.

When he’s not in court, Alan maintains an extensive speaking schedule, hosts the weekly radio program, Freedom’s Ring, and appears regularly on radio interviews throughout the nation. He also regularly publishes articles on religious freedom. Alan is a passionate advocate of liberty of conscience.

As a young man coming of age in the 70s, he struggled to know God, examining the religious teachings of various traditions. He saw friends taken captive to religious cults, and was wary of getting into something that he couldn’t get out of. God’s gracious commitment to respecting human freedom made it possible for him to experience Christian conversion without fear of being trapped or conned. He has dedicated his life to serving God, and to championing an understanding of God’s character – i.e., that a loving God gives freedom, and does not coerce the conscience.

 

Dr. Bradford C. Newton
Vice President &
Government Relations Director
Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
1228 N Street, Suite 1
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-446-2552
Fax: 916-446-6543 
bcnewton@churchstate.org

Dr. Bradford Newton serves as the Vice President & Directs the Government Relations program for the Council. (Screening legislation for 1st Amendment issues).  He represents the Council's religious liberty interests to the California legislature with visits to legislators, staff, as well as writing and testifying regarding proposed legislation.  Bradford aids individuals with workplace religious freedom problems. (Sabbath accommodation, union membership exemption).   He also lectures on religious liberty issues to church and community groups.  As an ordained Seventh-day Adventist minister, he holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI and has extensive experience as local church pastor.

 

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