News Release Archive
Health & Human Services Suspends Funds to Faith-based Mentoring Group Being Sued by Watchdog Foundation
December 20, 2004 The Department of Health and Human Services has suspended "the drawdown of federal funds" to MentorKids USA, which is slated to receive $225,000 in public funds through 2006....
Freethought Sign Returns to Wisconsin State Capitol
December 2, 2004 The Freedom From Religion Foundation's gilt "Winter Solstice" sign is back in the first-floor rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capitol for the month of December...
Freethought Watchdog Group Sues over HSS Funding of Arizona Faith-based Mentoring Program in First-of-its-Kind Legal Challenge
November 26, 2004 The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national association of freethinkers working since 1978 to keep state and church separate, is suing to halt direct funding by Health and Human Services...
Timely New Books Promote Freedom from Religion
November 3, 2004 Since the best defense is a good offense, the Freedom From Religion Foundation has published two timely freethought "classics" this month, sounding the alarm bell about the dangers of a growing union between religion and government...
Foundation Wins Second Lawsuit on Faith-Based Funding in its Montana "Parish Nursing" Case
October 27, 2004 The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which won the first lawsuit against faith-based funding under the Bush administration, won its second faith-based lawsuit today...
Congressional Vote on Pledge Degrades National Debate
September 24, 2004 Yesterday's vote in the House of Representatives approving legislation ostensibly protecting the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance from court review, shows how degraded the national debate...
27th National FFRF Convention Honors Freethinkers, Writers & Activists
September 14, 2004 The 27th annual national convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation will gather in Madison, Wis., Oct. 29-31. Outgoing Foundation President Anne Gaylor, 77, who has led the national watchdog group of freethinkers since 1978, will be recognized with a tribute for her 26 years of activism...
Watchdog Group Protests Harassment of Wisconsin 13-Year-Old at School
September 9, 2004 A 13-year-old 'A' student new to West Bend's Silverbrook Middle School (Wis.) has been deprived of her constitutional rights by her principal and singled out for harassment...
FFRF's Pacific Northwest Mini-Convention Meets July 9-10, 2004
June 24, 2004 The Freedom From Religion Foundation's Pacific Northwest "Mini-Convention" meets on the weekend of Friday, July 9, and Saturday July 10, at the Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue in downtown Seattle...
Freethought Watchdog Group Takes First Challenge of White House & Cabinet Faith-Based Offices
June 17, 2004 The Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed an unprecedented challenge of Pres. George W. Bush's creation of federal offices for faith-based initiatives...
Challenge of 'God' in Pledge of Allegiance Not Over Yet
June 14, 2004 The Freedom From Religion Foundation congratulated First Amendment plaintiff Michael Newdow for raising national consciousness about the secular origin of the Pledge...
FFRF Wins Challenge of Religious Instruction ("Scopes II") Before Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
June 7, 2004 The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit today upheld a federal court ruling in favor of the Freedom From Religion Foundation's challenge of religious instruction in three county schools in Rhea County...
Freedom From Religion Foundation Joins "Scouting for All" Protest
May 18, 2004 The Freedom From Religion Foundation will join "Scouting for All" and other critics of bigotry by Boy Scouts of America in protests held during the BSA's National Council Conference in Chicago on May 19-21, 2004...
Freedom From Religion Foundation Wins La Crosse Ten Commandments Lawsuit (Again)
February 3, 2004 Federal District Judge Barbara B. Crabb issued a 47-page opinion today, her second decision in six months favoring the challenge by the Freedom From Religion Foundation and its 22 plaintiffs in La Crosse, Wis...