lobbies

In this interview by Bill Maher, Jeff Sharlett discusses an illegal lobbying organization called The Family, a Christian fundamentalist organization which apparently controls many members of the US government. I'm not certain how much stock to put into this, but it's rather scary. Anyway...

Wow, I never thought I'd see the day that a group representing atheists would actually have an active lobby on Capitol Hill. I think this is something that atheists, agnostics, non-theists, freethinkers, etc should definitely get behind. Here's more info... Secular Coalition for America...

What would you think if the government formed a lobby group to lobby the government to enact new laws? What would you think if the work for the lobby group was done by government employees on government time? What would you think if some of the government employees received government grants...