Freethought Today 2007 Archives
December 2007:
FFRF Suit Challenges Green Bay Creche -- FFRF's Winter Solstice Display Educates Visitors at Wisconsin Capitol for 13th Year -- "The Ugliest Nativity Scenes in the World" -- Theocracy Alert -- Good State/Church News -- Support "The Golden Compass" Movie and Books -- FFRF's Billboards Make Statements in Georgia, Pennsylvania -- Those Heathen "Christmas" Trees by Dan Barker -- Getting Acquainted with An Atheist in a Foxhole by John Scripp III -- Peace on Earth? Keep Religion Separate by Dan Barker -- Presenting Julia Sweeney by Julia Sweeney -- Why I Do Not Need Religion To Be Moral by Mahesh Murali -- From Within by Sarah Wells -- In Their Own Words -- FFRF Campus Tour: Texas and Michigan -- Cartoons by Don Addis -- Co-Prez Speaks to Spokane Chapter
November 2007:
Billboards Greet Atlanta, Rural Pennsylvania -- Newdow, FFRF Launch "Under God" Challenge in New Hampshire Pledge of Allegiance Case -- "Golden Compass" Movie Challenges Belief -- Secularists Chide Gov. Perdue for His Prayer Service to Pray for Rain -- Michael Newdow Issues "Solstice Classic" CD -- Theocracy Alert -- State/Church Bulletin -- It's All About Honesty by James A. Haught -- A Champion of the First Amendment by Ellery Schempp -- Death by Barbara G. Walker -- Cartoons by Don Addis -- Wronged by the Court's Fine Print -- Overheard -- Dan's California Secular Student Alliance Tour -- Clara's Solstice Card, Other New Solstice Cards from FFRF
October 2007:
Colorado School District Urges Churchgoing -- Reaching Out to the UnMassed Masses -- FFRF's Upbeat 30th Annual Convention Attracts Record 750 Registrants to Gala in Madison, Wis. -- FFRF's National Radio Venture -- Theocracy Alert -- State/Church Bulletin -- Protesting "One Nation Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance by Emma Martens -- "You Belong In Hell" by Matthew LaCLair -- Religious Tests for Public Office by Robert Weitzel -- Getting Acquainted with Jacques LeFresne by Jacques LeFresne -- A Troubling Court Ruling by Linda Allewalt -- Habecker Appeal Heard in September by Robert R. Tiernan -- Overheard -- In Their Own Words -- Cartoons by Don Addis -- Infidel Info
September 2007:
Freethought Radio Goes National in October! -- First-Ever Nontheist Billboard Goes Up! -- Indiana Officially Drops Chaplain Post -- FFRF Protests Jesus Flyers Sent Home with Schoolchildren -- FFRF Objection Nixes Prayer at Remembrance -- In the News -- FFRF:VA Is Largest Faith-based Healthcare Provider -- FFRF Awards $4,900 in Scholarships to College-Bound High School Seniors -- FFRF Awards $4,100 to Winning College Essayists -- Solstice Card Contest Winners Announced -- The Color Purple by Dan Barker -- The Problem of Evil by Barbara G. Walker -- The Evolution of an Outlaw, or How I Became a Freethinker by Danielle Jones-Pruett -- Veritism by Morgan Grossman-McKee -- Rescuing the Perishing by Mary Peterson -- Christian Schools for the Damned by Carrie Louise Nutt -- Thou Shalt Not Confuse Religion With Morality by Olga Galchenko -- Religion: An Unnecessary and Contradictory Ingredient to Morality by Amy Ionadi -- Marquee Madness -- Cartoons by Don Addis -- In Their Own Words -- FFRF Presence at Fighting Bob Fest -- Overheard
August 2007:
Indiana Eliminates State Chaplain Post -- In the News -- Theocracy Alert -- State/Church Bulletin -- Bush's church-state mess takes liberties with ours (Blumner) -- The Supreme 5: Only Congress can be sued, not White House (Salter) -- Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. (Shipka) -- Our Story (McBurney) -- The Jesus Myth (Walker) -- Morality Without Religious Interference (Whitehouse) -- Wouldn't It Be Nice? (Samuelson) -- Critical Thinking: The Foundation of Morality (Trauenicht) -- Hein: Judicial Review at Stake -- 777 Rock Against Religion -- In Their Own Words -- Overheard -- Lake Hypatia Lallapalooza 2007
June/July 2007:
Court Insulates Executive Branch Violations -- Imperial Presidency Can Now Promote Religion -- Justice Souter's Powerful Dissent -- In the News -- Theocracy Alert -- Designing the American Burqa (Brazill) -- Imagine If All the Candidates Were Atheists? (Habecker) -- The Making of a Skeptic (Walker) -- "Champion of the First Amendment" Dies -- Freethought Activist Clark Adams 1969-2007 -- Overheard -- In Their Own Words -- Cartoons by Don Addis
May 2007:
Feds Make Ominous Argument -- Indiana Lawsuit Grabs Headlines -- State/Church Bulletin -- Theocracy Alert -- What's Wrong with the National Day of Prayer(Fahringer) -- "It's About Time!" (Sultan) -- D.M. Bennett: The Nineteenth Century's Most Controversial Publisher and American Free-Speech Martyr (Bradford) -- An Inquiry Into Intelligent Design Education (Anthony) -- Fish Out of Water (Payne) -- A Charmed, Freethinking Weekend in New York (Gaylor) -- Is Dayton, Tennessee Now Everywhere, USA? (Gaylor) -- FFRF Tops 10,000 Members! -- Best Wishes to Our Ken -- Student Activist Award Available -- Jerry Falwell Overheard -- Overheard, In Their Own Words
April 2007:
FFRF Sues over New Indiana State Chaplain -- Rep. Pete Stark Makes History -- State/Church Bulletin -- Faith-based Funding Flood Continues -- FFRF Watches Prison Program -- The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine (Sloan) -- The Christianization of the Military (Weinstein) -- Honorable Mentions: Students Reject Religion -- Of Pandas and Panderers: The Risks of Appeasing the Religious Right in the Intelligent Design Controversy (Marcellus) -- A Step Backward (Ginart) -- Cartoons by Don Addis -- In Their Own Words -- Overheard -- Marquee Madness -- FFRF Talk Kicks off UCLA Student Group
March 2007:
FFRF's Supreme Court Case Makes Headlines -- Combative Argument Reveals Divided Court -- FFRF Brief to the U.S. Supreme Court & Amicus Briefs in Support -- Legal Case a Media Bonanza -- Highlights of Supreme Court Trip (Gaylor & Barker) -- The Rise of Christian Nationalism (Goldberg) -- Religious Proselytizers As Lab Rats: Faith = Claim Of Psychic Ability (Grey) -- Intelligent Design vs. Intelligent Education (Pyburn-Wilk) -- Cartoons by Don Addis
January/February 2007:
Supreme Court Faith-based Case Briefed; Oral Arguments Feb. 28 -- FFRF to Appeal VA Religion Ruling -- State/Church Bulletin -- In the News -- Biggest Study: Prayer Harmful to Patients -- Funding Hypocrisy (Wiechecki) -- Darwin Is My Hero (Gosling) -- Scientists Must Counter Fundamentalism (Darrow) -- Let the Halls of Power Resound (Lee) -- Protesting Forced Prayer at Senior Center (Bulger) -- Blind Faith (Sloan) -- Behind Intelligent Design: Christian Apologetics and the "Science" That Isn't (Cox) -- Cartoons by Don Addis -- Quilt Honors FFRF's Anne Gaylor as "Troublemaker" -- Overheard -- Infidel Info/In His Own Words