Timely news updates include FFRF’s reports to the IRS of illegal politicking by 501(c)(3) tax-exempt churches. We report some Bible Belt victories against blatant promotion of religion in public schools. …
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FFRF reports electioneering churches to IRS
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has reported several allegations of unlawful pulpit politicking to the Internal Revenue Service so far this year. FFRF, a national state/church watchdog based in …
FFRF protests many police chaplains nationwide, including in Orlando
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national state/church watchdog, sent a letter and open records request to the Orlando Police Department (Fla.) on Nov. 3, objecting to the department’s chaplain program. The …
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FFRF combats ‘pervasive religious endorsement’ in Texas school district
A national state/church watchdog has lodged a formal complaint over “pervasive religious endorsement” by the Mt. Vernon Independent School District in Texas. The Freedom From Religion Foundation contacted the district …
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Freethought Radio – November 1, 2014
In The News: football baptisms, proselytizing teachers, Fox & Friends lecturing FFRF on “culture of the South,” and USA Today acknowledging FFRF’s accomplishments. Then we talk with John Figdor, Humanist …
FFRF nixes religion in online curriculum
FFRF sent a letter Sept. 2 to Joseph Olchefske, president of Calvert Education Services in Hunt Valley, Md., about inclusion of religious material in mandatory assignments used in public schools’ …
Religious monument to be modified/removed
The Freedom From Religion Foundation appears to have scored another victory for secularism in a public high school, after Madison County School District in Danielsville, Ga., announced it will either …
Pastors again dare IRS to enforce the law
FFRF, which was at the center of a high-profile lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over illegal church electioneering, warned that the seventh-annual “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” that was held Oct. …
FFRF calls for bible-class moratorium in N.C. schools
The Freedom From Religion Foundation told the Rowan-Salisbury [N.C.] School System it must immediately drop unconstitutional elementary school-level bible classes. FFRF is awaiting response to an open records request to …
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