Action Alert
FFRF: Mayors overstep bounds hosting prayer breakfasts
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is busy this week protesting all kinds of National Day of Prayer-related entanglements between government and religion, including violations occurring in two separate states involving mayoral-arranged prayer breakfasts observing the day of prayer. FFRF, which represents more than 18,000 nonreligious…More »
Weigh in on church's lack of financial accountability
FFRF sent a memo to U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, weighing in on 17 issues regarding the financial status of churches in our country. We need your help to drive our message home. On Nov. 5, 2007, Grassley and the Senate Committee on Finance More »
Congratulations, Jessica!
The Freedom From Religion Foundation congratulates Jessica Ahlquist, 16, for prevailing in a heated state/church lawsuit challenging a prayer banner at her high school in Cranston, R.I. Yesterday, the school board there took the right, rational and fiscally responsible action, by voting not to More »
Tell Brown County Board to work, not pray
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has formally urged the Brown County Board to cease "unnecessary" and "inappropriate" prayer before government meetings. County Board meetings currently open with an overtly Christian prayer that often includes specific references to "Jesus." FFRF Senior Staff Attorney Rebecca Markert called attention More »
Catholic bishops go after women's right to contraception
During church services on the last Sunday in January, Catholic hierarchy read what CBS News called a "blistering letter," assailing the Obama administration for an "assault on religious liberty." (Read a version of the bishops' letter proclaimed in every Catholic Church, urging Catholic congregants More »
Pennsylvania bible resolution is 'sinfully' unconstitutional
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is protesting an unconstitutional resolution naming 2012 the "Year of the Bible," unanimously passed (193-0) in the Pennsylvania General Assembly this week. House Resolution 535 arrogantly exhorts citizens to "study and apply the teachings of the holy scriptures.” What More »
Make public comment against federal Jesus shrine
Dear FFRF'er: We need your continued help to remove a shrine to Jesus from Big Mountain on Flathead National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service, at FFRF's request, had agreed not to renew a no-cost lease to a Catholic group to erect a statue to Jesus More »
Protest Michigan's green light on religious bullying
The Michigan State Senate on Tuesday passed what looks like a commendable bill to reduce bullying in the public schools, which includes a provision that would appear to exempt bullying in the name of religion: "This section does not prohibit a statement of a sincerely More »
Protest ‘In God We Trust’ vote in U.S. House
The U.S. House of Representatives is playing political football with religion. Yesterday, in a 396 to 9 vote, the U.S. House approved Rep. J. Randy Forbes' pandering resolution "reaffirming 'In God We Trust' as the official motto of the United States and supporting and encouraging More »
FFRF to Forest Service: Remove Montana Jesus shrine
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has contacted the chief of the US Forest Service asking him to remove a Catholic shrine atop Whitefish Mountain, and overrule an underling's decision to take public comments on whether the federal government should host the religious display. FFRF is More »
FFRF complaint to move Jesus statue from Montana mountain
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has persuaded the U.S. Forest Service not to renew an unconstitutional lease with a Catholic group to erect a statue to Jesus on Big Mountain in the Flathead National Forest. A prominent painted stone statue of Jesus has been More »
Alabama city police chief tries to reform inmates in church
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent a strong letter of protest on behalf of a local complainant to Bay Minette, Ala. judges, regarding an off-the-wall proposal from Bay Minette Police Chief Mike Rowland to have first-time offenders attend church services in lieu of More »
Letter to President Barack Obama Re: 9/11 Anniversary Prayer Proclamation and Remarks at 9/11 Memo
If you wish to contact the President: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact You can also call or write to the President: The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Please include your e-mail address Phone Numbers Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414 FAX: 202-456-2461 TTY/TDD Comments: 202-456-6213 Visitors Office: 202-456-2121 September 15, 2011 The Honorable Barack Obama White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: 9/11 More »
Thank Mayor Bloomberg for refusing to cater to religionists
It's important for FFRF members, as advocates of state-church separation, to support New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's effort to keep religion out of the city's commemoration of the upcoming 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Bloomberg is taking incredible heat for his refusal More »
FFRF asks DeSoto Supt. to retract defamatory comment & to educate, not proselytize
After reading FFRF’s follow-up letter (below), you may wish to contact Supt. Milton Kuykendall to reinforce FFRF’s legal complaint. After FFRF complained about the District’s practice of hosting prayers, mostly Christian, over loudspeakers to begin school sports events, the school board voted Tuesday to More »
Iowa school to pay for church renovations
The board of education of Cedar Falls, Iowa, approved $61,940 on Aug. 8 to remodel space inside Kaio Church. The district plans to lease space from the church, which is next door to Southdale Elementary School, for two preschool classrooms, but the building will More »
FFRF renews call to Minnesota Legislature: Drop prayer
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, on behalf of its 16,500 members including 400 in Minnesota, has renewed its formal objections to opening the Minnesota House or Senate sessions with prayer — any prayer, nondenominational or not — after the divisive appearance and prayer by More »
Board resolution pushes prayer in public schools
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent a strong letter of complaint to officials in Philadelphia after the City Council unanimously passed a resolution March 10 that violates the constitutional boundary between state and church. The resolution, introduced by council member Jannie Blackwell, calls for More »
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