Following a Foundation protest, the city of Batavia, New York moved a nativity scene to private property in 2000. …
Legal Advocacy Victories
Red Rocks Easter Service Subsidy Ended
The Denver chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, represented by attorney Robert R. Tiernan, in 1999 protested the low rent (sometimes no rent) charged to the area ministerial association …
Discount for Catholics Ended
Protracted legal letters halted a religious discount at a grocery store in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1998, where the Catholic owner gave out "free milk" coupons to anyone showing a Catholic …
De Facto Sports Chaplaincy Stopped
After tenacious complaints and requests for public documents, the Foundation persuaded the University of Wisconsin-Madison to end a de facto Catholic chaplaincy for the University of Wisconsin Badgers (1994). (The …
Creationism Removed from City Zoo
A Foundation challenge removed a creationist display in a children's building at the city zoo in Madison, Wisconsin, including biblical references to Adam and Eve, and Noah (1994). …
Illegal Public Help Halted “Our Lady of the Rockies”
A complaint to the U.S. Secretary of Labor halted subsidy of "Our Lady of the Rockies" by the federal Job Corps in Montana. Job Corps recipients were being ordered to …
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Bible Proclamation Rescinded
The Foundation persuaded the governor of Missouri to rescind a bible proclamation (1994). …
School Boy Scout Subsidy Stopped
After learning that the school board of Madison, Wisconsin, was not charging Boy Scouts rent to meet in public classrooms, while all other kids' groups were charged rent, the Foundation …
Post Office/Catholic Entanglement Ended
First complaining (successfully) about religious artifacts on display at the Post Office in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin (a community entirely made up of nuns), the Foundation got the U.S. Post Office to …
