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'Tis the Season for Religious Right Bullies
By Annie Laurie GaylorAn ill-spirited public relations gimmick contending Christians are being persecuted in December is being spun" by the likes of Jerry Falwell, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News Channel, the rightwing Liberty Counsel and American Family Association.The media obligingly have picked up on the More »
Assembly Plays Political Football; UW System to Adopt Policy
More Educational Pressure Needed NOW over Dorm Bible Study PolicyTwo New Pressure Points: Please Re-Contact UW System, & Contact Wisconsin Assembly Re: Next Week's Hearing on IssueGrandstanding over a policy barring paid resident assistants (RAs) from holding bible studies in their dorms at the More »
An Informational Hearing to Discuss the RA Bible Study Ban at UW-Eau Claire
Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 9-11 a.m. 412 East, State Capitol, Madison, WI Format of Hearing ONLY invited speakers. ONLY Chair can invite speakers. No public testimony allowed. What public can do Public can attend and watch hearing, and register for or against the topic. Written testimony can be submitted via More »
Talking Points
The University of Wisconsin needs to uphold neutrality. Students in dorms pay a lot of money for public housing, and deserve a neutral resident assistant and living space. Taxpayers are footing the bill for RA dorm rooms. Under the Wisconsin constitution, taxpayers are guaranteed they More »
Freethought Sign Returns to Wisconsin Capitol for Tenth Year
Sign of the Season More »
FFRF Challenges "Faith-based" Prison Ministry
Sues State of New MexicoGod always comes first, family second, and all else is secondary."A state-funded fundamentalist Christian prison ministry program ("God pod") in a women's prison in New Mexico is being challenged in federal court by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a state/church More »
FFRF Presents Impressive Line-Up for Upcoming Orlando Convention
Final Speaker Announced!Book your hotel room at the Rosen Plaza Hotel, 9700 International Dr., Orlando. Phone 1-800-627-8258 or 407-996-9700. Specify you are with FFRF and that you are booking the Rosen PLAZA Hotel (there are 2 Rosen Hotels in Orlando). More »
Department of Education Suspends Alaska Bible College Funds
New FFRF Legal Victory Saves Public Nearly Half a Million in Misused Funds Federal funds of $435,000 earmarked for Alaska Christian College, as well as remaining funds from a previous federal grant, were suspended on Oct. 7 by the U.S. Department of Education, as a More »
Call to FFRF Annual Convention in Orlando Nov. 11-13
Irreverents to Convene!For convention rate, book your hotel room at the Rosen Plaza Hotel, Orlando! Phone 1-800-627-8258 or 407-996-9700. More »
Letter to John Roberts
Chief Justice John RobertsSupreme Court of the United StatesWashington DC 20543Dear Chief Justice:On behalf of our national membership, our organization, which works to protect the constitutional separation of church and state, is writing to protest your presence at the Oct. 2 "Red Mass" held More »
FFRF Calls Red Mass "Conflict of Interest"
Days of the Theocracy?Isn't this what theocracy would look like?The Freedom From Religion Foundation has written President George W. Bush and Chief Justice John Roberts requesting that they "absent themselves" in the future from Red Masses.The Roman Catholic Church traditionally sponsors a "Red Mass" More »
FEMA Church Give-Away Sets Egregious Precedent--<br>As Usual, Churches Get Credit, Taxpayers Get th
Faith-based FEMA -- Action Alert II! FEMA's messy plan to reimburse churches is financially and constitutionally a river of no return. The watchdog Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national association of freethinkers working to keep church and state separate, is protesting the announcement of an unprecedented More »
<i>Watchdog Group Protests Bush's "Useless" Proclamation of Prayer</i>
Does Pres. Bush imagine that putting on the mantle of piety substitutes for action--or previous inaction--by his government? Statement by Annie Laurie Gaylor Co-President, Freedom From Religion Foundation Pres. George W. Bush has announced a useless proclamation, to declare Friday, Sept. 16 as More »
FFRF Legal Win: University of Minnesota Drops Faith/Health Course
University Capitulates; Drops Consortium and Course (Madison, Wis.) The national Freedom From Religion Foundation, which sued the University of Minnesota in federal court on March 25 over the university's involvement in a "faith health consortium" and proposed "faith/health leadership" course, has won a complete victory. The More »
Watchdog Foundation Blasts Promotion of "Operation Blessing" by Federal Agency
Faith-based FEMA? Action Alert!The national Freedom From Religion Foundation has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to immediately remove "Operation Blessing" from its list of endorsed charities to donate cash to for victims of Hurricane Katrina.Operation Blessing, an evangelical Christian charity, was founded More »
Watchdog Foundation Blasts Promotion of "Operation Blessing" by Federal Agency
Faith-based FEMA? Action Alert!The national Freedom From Religion Foundation has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to immediately remove "Operation Blessing" from its list of endorsed charities to donate cash to for victims of Hurricane Katrina.Operation Blessing, an evangelical Christian charity, was founded More »
Letter to FEMA
Michael D. BrownUnder Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness & ResponseFEMA500 C St, SWWashington DC 20172Dear Mr Brown:Our group, working to protect the constitutional separation between church and state, was shocked and dismayed to see FEMA promote Rev. Pat Robertson's ministry, Operation Blessing, More »
Hurricane Relief Needs People Power, Not Prayer
"Hands That Help Are Better Far than Lips That Pray" As usual, God gets the credit, never the blame. Statement by Annie Laurie Gaylor, Co-President, Freedom From Religion Foundation Is anything more useless than prayer in the face of a catastrophe? Prayers certainly didn't stop Hurricane Katrina. More »
Alaska School Funding a Religious Boondoggle
FFRF Lawsuit Challenges "Religious Pork" "The Bible will be your most valuable textbook." The Freedom From Religion Foundation's federal lawsuit over public funding of Alaska Christian College received a boost when the Department of Education sent an official there in July to investigate how the grants More »
Creationist Wolf in Cheap Clothing
Image by Richard Wheeler (www.richardwheeler.net) If Bush truly wants to "expose people to different schools of thought," will he advocate teaching Darwinism in Sunday School? Shall we insert a chapter from Origin of the Species between Genesis 1 and 2? Statement More »
<i>Rightwing Religionists Seek to Muzzle Inquiry</i>
Church Politicking Has Turned Religion into Confirmation Issue Judge Roberts, have you, or have you not, ever been a supporter of the separation of church and state? Statement by Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president Freedom From Religion Foundation "I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant More »
University of Minnesota Withdraws from Minnesota Faith Health Consortium after FFRF Lawsuit<br>FFRF
FFRF Wins Solid Legal Victory The University of Minnesota, after being sued on March 25 by the national Freedom From Religion Foundation, has withdrawn its membership in the Minnesota Faith Health Consortium. (See letter.) According to defendant Frank B. Cerra, Senior Vice President of Health More »
FFRF Receives 4-stars From Charity Navigator
Charity Navigator has awarded a 4-star rating to the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which is so far the only state/church organization to receive such a rating.Below is an excerpt of the letter from Charity Navigator explaining what this means. More »
"Anyone Who Values Religious Liberty Should be Troubled"
Scalia Goes After Atheists and Minority Religionists Statement by Annie Laurie Gaylor, Co-President The Supreme Court's contradictory decisions yesterday on the constitutionality of Ten Commandment markers on public property, instead of resolving three decades of legal disputes, serve only to confound the public, foster case-by-case mischief, More »
Texas Commandments Decision Creates Mischief
Instead of resolving nearly three decades of legal divisiveness over Ten Commandments monuments on public property, the Supreme Court, in issuing two contradictory rulings on June 27, set the scene for more confusion and bitter legal battles. Although a majority voted against a display More »
State/Church Watchdog Group Protests "Day of Prayer" Proclamations, Asks Governors to Balance with
News Release & Action Alert (Madison, Wis.) The national Freedom From Religion Foundation, the nation's largest freethought (atheist/agnostic) membership group, which works to keep church and state separation, has called on the nation's governors to issue proclamations to balance the National Day of Prayer. Pointing More »
FFRF Sues Department of Education over Massive Federal Funding of Non-degreed, Non-accredited Alaska
Action Alert (Madison, Wis.) The national Freedom From Religion Foundation, a freethought association working to keep church and state separate, filed a federal lawsuit on April 21 against the Department of Education's massive federal funding of Alaska Christian College in Soldotna, Alaska. The 3-year-old unaccredited "college" More »
Freedom From Religion Foundation Protests Wisconsin Governor's Executive Order to Lower Flags This W
Action Alert The Madison, Wis.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation expressed "dismay" over Wis. Gov. Jim Doyle's executive order to lower flags this entire week to mark the death of Pope John Paul II, a non-citizen and leader of Roman Catholicism. Calling private mourning by Catholics appropriate, More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wis., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational charity, is the nation's largest association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics), and has been working since 1978 to keep religion and government separate.
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