Taking advantage of heightened news interest this week during the Democratic National Convention, the Freedom From Religion Foundation will be airing Ron Reagan’s “unabashed atheist” ad on MSNBC and CBS.
The ad appears on tonight’s “Rachel Maddow Show” and next Monday’s show and will air on CBS’s “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” tonight through Thursday. “Colbert” will be live this week, and his high-profile guests will include Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, and Pete Buttigieg.
FFRF has also placed a 14 x 48-foot billboard saying “Keep Freedom Alive — Stop Project 2025” in the line of traffic from O’Hare Airport to the site of the DNC convention. The billboard is on the Kennedy Expressway (I-90/94) west of Edens on I-94. Congressional Freethought Caucus Co-Chair Rep. Jared Huffman has called the Heritage Foundation-concocted plan “a dystopian plot that’s already in motion to dismantle our democratic institutions, abolish checks and balances, chip away at church-state separation, and impose a far-right agenda that infringes on basic liberties and violates public will.”
In FFRF’s iconic 30-second commercial, Reagan, who is the outspoken son of President Ronald and Nancy Reagan, says:
Hi, I’m Ron Reagan, an unabashed atheist, and I’m alarmed, as you may be, by the intrusion of religion into our secular government. That’s why I’m asking you to join the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the nation’s largest and most effective association of atheists and agnostics, working to keep state and church separate, just like our Founders intended. Please join the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Ron Reagan, lifelong atheist, not afraid of burning in hell.
Reagan, who has previously received FFRF’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award for his lifelong identification as an atheist, will give the Friday evening keynote at FFRF’s 47th annual national convention in Denver meeting Sept. 27–28. It will be his third appearance at a FFRF convention.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with 40,000 members across the country. It protects the constitutional separation between state and church and educates about nontheism. FFRF advertising is made possible by kind contributions from members. Donations to FFRF are deductible for income-tax purposes.
