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FFRF Files Lawsuit Against Rio School District and Wisconsin Department of Instruction
April 25, 2008 The Madison, Wis.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national organization of freethinkers working to keep church and state separate, today filed a lawsuit in Dane County Court seeking to force the school district in Rio, Wis., to charge rent to the Child Evangelism Fellowship Group ...

State/Church Watchdog Makes $1,200 Bid on Holmen "Star Hill" Site
April 25, 2008 The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national state/church watchdog based in Madison, Wis., has formally offered $1,200 for a 990-foot bite of land on what is known as the "Star Hill" cross site in Holmen, Wis. ...

Repelled by Expelled
April 24, 2008 Statement by Annie Laurie Gaylor, Co-President of the Freedom From Religion Foundation: I ruined a perfectly good spring evening to see "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," a so-called documentary by rightwing gadfly Ben Stein ...

FFRF Bids on Holmen "Star Cross" Site
April 21, 2008 The Freedom From Religion Foundation , a national state/church watchdog based in Madison, Wis., has formally offered to purchase what is known as the "Star Hill Cross Site" in Holmen, Wis. ...

FFRF Objects to Sheriff Dept.-Sponsored Prayer Breakfast featuring Justice (Elect) Gableman
April 18, 2008 A Wisconsin county sheriff has been asked to cease and desist his eighth annual sponsorship of a prayer breakfast by the Burnett Sheriff Department ...

"Faith Forum" Outright Religious Test for Public Office
April 16, 2008 Nearly a year ago, when CNN broadcast a presidential faith forum last June, the Freedom From Religion Foundation issued a statement condemning the imposition of a religious test for public office ...

FFRF Halts Christian Vending at Madison VA
April 10, 2008 Acting on a complaint from a patient at the Madison VA Hospital, the Freedom From Religion Foundation today protested the presence of Christian vendors setting up shop at the main entrance, through which every patient and employee must pass ...

Memorialize 11-Year-Old Madeline by Removing Faith Exemption
March 28, 2008 The death of an 11-year-old child from illness is always tragic, but what puts Madeline Kara Neumann's death last Sunday in a different class is that it is unforgiveable. Madeleine's long descent into diabetic ketoacidosis was unnecessary, preventable and the result of willful negligence on the part of her bible-believing parents ...

"Beware of Dogma" Billboard Design Wins Addy Award!
February 29, 2008 A "Beware of Dogma" billboard designed with a stained-glass motif last fall for the Freedom From Religion Foundation won an "Addy" award for Adams Outdoor Company in late February . . . "

Hateful Response to "Imagine No Religion" Message Shows Its Power
February 12, 2008 It is hard to credit how one little freethought billboard could create such insecurity by religionists! The Freedom From Religion Foundation's pretty billboard, with its wistful, John Lennon-inspired message, "Imagine No Religion," has been attacked by not just one, but two billboards in Chambersburg, Penn. ...

"Imagine No Religion" Billboard Debuts in Columbus, Ohio
February 1, 2008 A 14x48-foot "stained glass" billboard bearing the message, "Imagine No Religion," is going up Saturday morning, February 2, for the month of February on the southeast corner of East Broad St. and Lancaster Ave, Reynoldsburg ...

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