News Releases Archive

May 20, 2020

Trump lawyer’s attacks on FFRF are badge of honor

Maybe the Freedom From Religion Foundation should consider it a badge of honor that Jay Sekulow attacked the state/church watchdog the same week he represented President Trump before the Supreme …

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May 19, 2020

Rescind religious exemption, FFRF asks its home county in Wisconsin

  The Freedom From Religion Foundation is protesting on behalf of its local members a recent countywide order in Dane County, Wis., providing an unwise exemption for religious gatherings. Soon …

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May 14, 2020

FFRF objects to forced taxpayer bailout of religion

   The Freedom From Religion Foundation is raising its voice against the Trump administration’s unconstitutional massive bailout of houses of worship. The national state/church watchdog is conveying its formal objections …

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May 14, 2020

Agnostic bible scholar Bart Ehrman on “Freethought Matters” this week

Agnostic bible scholar Bart Ehrman is the featured interview on the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s weekly “Freethought Matters” TV show this Sunday. Ehrman, a professor of religious studies at the …

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May 13, 2020

Secular groups ask FDA to ignore theocrats in coronavirus vaccine research

Prominent secular groups, led by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, are asking the Food and Drug Administration to disregard a theocratic plea for limiting COVID-19 vaccine research. In their letter …

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May 12, 2020

HHS official’s ‘God’ statement reveals religion’s dangerous role in pandemic

The evangelical hold on the Trump administration is endangering the effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. A senior official at the Department of Health and Human Services, described by the …

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May 12, 2020

Religious discrimination case gets Supreme Court hearing

The U.S. Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in a significant case pertaining to the civil rights of individuals employed with religious entities, a case in which the Freedom From …

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May 12, 2020

FFRF’s TV spot by Ron Reagan returns to ‘Rachel Maddow’

An iconic ad featuring a presidential son extolling the Freedom From Religion Foundation returns to MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” today for the next two weeks. The commercial with Ron (“unabashed …

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May 12, 2020

FFRF castigates N.M. sheriff for enabling church pandemic misconduct

The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is urging a New Mexico sheriff to quit enabling a church to breach pandemic social-distancing orders. On May 3, Sierra County Sheriff Glenn Hamilton …

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