Happy Birthday to composers Edward Elgar and Charles Strouse! This week we hear an update on the Ball State professor who is preaching creationism in the classroom. Then we talk …
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FFRF’s “Colorado Day of Prayer” victory appealed to state Supreme Court
The Colorado Supreme Court announced earlier this month that it will hear an appeal by Gov. John Hickenlooper of the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s victory in the appeals court declaring …
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Church hosting school concert is unholy mix of church and state
The Freedom From Religion Foundation remains concerned at a Texas school districts role in organizing tonight’s performance at a high school auditorium which was paid for by a Baptist Church. …
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Freethought Radio – May 25, 2013
Nonbelievers in the news! Tornado victim interviewed on CNN says she is an atheist, while Ricky Gervais sends money, not prayers, to Oklahoma relief. An Arizona representative delivers a secular …
FFRF banner in Wilkes-Barre: Nothing Fails Like Prayer
Wilkes-Barre student Justin Vacula, in conjunction with the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has just arranged placement of a colorful banner saying “Nothing Fails Like Prayer” in Public Square in downtown …
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Boy Scouts of America still practices discrimination
Statement by Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker FFRF Co-Presidents We congratulate Boy Scouts of America for lifting its longtime, hurtful ban on gays being members. BSA has taken a …
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Sailors forced to hear shipboard prayer
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has renewed its objections to constitutional violations occurring aboard U.S. Navy ships. In a May 20 letter to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, FFRF …
Elementary school religious music program ‘drastically altered’
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Madison, Wis-based state/church watchdog, stopped presentation of a fifth-grade religious musical program in Lindale, Texas. FFRF was contacted by a concerned parent about a …
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Saluting two nonreligious newsmakers
Statement by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie GaylorFFRF Co-Presidents While President Obama was counseling “faith in the Almighty” and prayer in the wake of the devastating Oklahoma tornado …