The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Greater Sacramento Chapter has returned to the California Capitol with a display representing nonbelievers.
The chapter put up a Bill of Rights “nativity” display on the Capitol grounds last week. A sign attached to the tongue-in-cheek display, featuring three Founders and Lady Liberty gazing at a “baby” Bill of Rights in a manger, reads:
At this season of the Winter Solstice
Join us in honoring the Bill of Rights, adopted on December 15, 1791, which reminds us there can be no religious freedom without the freedom to dissent.
Keep religion and government separate!
Pictured volunteers who helped put up the display include (from left to right): FFRF Greater Sacramento Chapter Vice President Angela Garvie, Board President Erin Louis, Treasurer Rae Howard and Board Member Judy Roberson. The additional picture features Roberson in front of the display.
The FFRF chapter first put up the exhibit in 2016 as a counter to religious displays on government property.
“The month of December doesn’t just belong to Christians,” comments FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “FFRF is proud to stand as a resource for secular Americans to find community during the solstice season.”
Gaylor notes that today is Bill of Rights Day and Sunday is the 2025 Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year marking the return of the sun, celebrated for millennia in the Northern Hemisphere with festivals of light, gift exchanges and feasting long before Christianity.
FFRF thanks its chapter members and volunteers for putting up the display.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with 42,000 members and several chapters across the country, including over 5,200 members and two chapters in California. Its purposes are to protect the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
