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2020 National Convention Canceled — Join us in Boston in November of 2021
Due to the coronavirus pandemic and related safety concerns, the FFRF 2020 convention scheduled for San Antonio this November has had to be postponed. Our annual meetings of the membership …
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FFRF condemns HHS rule explicitly allowing anti-LGBTQ discrimination
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced a final rule declaring that it will no longer recognize anti-LGBTQ discrimination as an instance of sex discrimination, effectively …
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FFRF praises historic Supreme Court decision in LGBTQ Title VII case
The U.S. Supreme Court today issued a historic ruling upholding civil rights protections for LGBTQ Americans. In a 6-3 decision issued today in Bostock v. Clayton Co. (with Justice Neil Gorsuch …
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No siphoning of public funds for vouchers, FFRF urges Congress
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is urging Congress to include safeguards in the second stimulus bill to thwart public money from being diverted to private school voucher programs. FFRF …
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FFRF awards $9,500 to 2020 winning law student essayists
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is proud to disburse $9,500 in scholarship money to this year’s winners of the law student essay competition, the second such annual contest. Law …
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FFRF has Gideons barred from Ga. school district
A Georgia school district has stopped the Gideons from distributing bibles in a number of schools after the Freedom From Religion Foundation raised several objections. Many parents reported to the …
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Texas Lt. Gov. offers absurd religious diversion
In a time of national turmoil, it’s more than dismaying to see the second-highest Texas state official peddle religious snake oil. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick took to Fox News to …
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Illinois city erases cross from mural after FFRF protests
An Illinois city has removed a Christian cross from a city-owned mural primarily viewed by public school students after the Freedom From Religion Foundation objected to it several times. …
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Congress, Christian Nationalist judges, and COVID: Dispatches from Mark Dann, FFRF’s rep on Capitol Hill
Congress is back in session. You’d think that the Senate majority’s highest priority would be helping Americans survive the coronavirus pandemic. But its imperious objective instead is to confirm Christian …
