The Cleveland Plain-Dealer today ran a timely feature story recapping the current controversy over “God Bless America,” quoting the Freedom From Religion Foundation, among others. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, …
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Is Texas Governor the George Wallace Wannabe of the Illegal-Prayer-in-School Movement?
"Zero Tolerance" Urged for Theocratic Politicians The Freedom From Religion Foundation is protesting a "cabal of self-serving politicians" for using the public schools for "religious self-aggrandizement," following a story in …
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Madison Principal Collects Names of Non-Pledging Elementary School Students
Teachers to “Rat” on Dissenting Students? The principal of Glenn Stephens elementary school, Madison, WI, in her staff bulletin for the week of Oct. 15 instructed teachers to reveal the …
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State/Church Watchdog Group Condemns Irresponsible Congressional Resolution
“Joe McCarthy Lives!” The U.S. House of Representatives, in thoughtlessly passing a trouble-making resolution promoting the use of the slogan “God Bless America” in public schools, is contributing to an …
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Gaylor, Foundation Call for Madison Superintendent to Resign
Group Alleges District Policy Violated Annie Laurie Gaylor of the Madison, Wis.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation called today for the resignation of Art Rainwater, Superintendent of the Madison Metropolitan School …
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Letter to Gov. Scott McCallum
Governor Scott McCallum Office of the Governor 115 E State Capitol Madison WI 53702 Dear Gov. McCallum: We are dismayed at your insensitivity to the separation of church and state, …
Foundation Dismayed at Wisconsin Governor’s Jingoism
Labels Dissenters, Unbelievers “Oddballs” The Freedom From Religion Foundation has written a letter of complaint to Wisconsin Gov. Scott McCallum over the insensitivity of his October 9 statements, belittling the …
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Foundation Urges National Anthem, Not Pledge, Be Offered in Wisconsin Public Schools
“Choose Most Secular, Least Coercive Alternative” The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national association based in Madison, Wis., has called upon the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction, as well …
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Acts of Terrorism the Ultimate “Faith-Based Initiative”?
Statement on September 11 Terrorism This statement was released by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Madison, Wis.-based national association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics) working to protect the constitutional …
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