News Releases Archive

June 13, 2018

FFRF urges Atlanta to abandon the supernatural

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is asking Atlanta-area residents yet again to give up their faith in the supernatural. A large (14-by-48-foot) billboard with the message “Supernatural belief — the …

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June 13, 2018

FFRF admonishes Ohio school district for Christian

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is chiding an Ohio public school district for its unabashed promotion of Christianity. A concerned student reported that during Hicksville High School’s commencement practice on …

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June 11, 2018

Secular groups oppose onslaught of bills allowing bigotry in foster care

The Freedom From Religion Foundation and several other groups representing secular values have signed a letter to state lawmakers opposing pending or passed laws that allow religious discrimination in adoption …

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June 8, 2018

FFRF asks Mississippi mayor & schools to quit officially praying

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling for the mayor and school district of a Mississippi town to officially refrain from sectarian religious behavior. The Long Beach School District recently …

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June 8, 2018

World loses ‘devout atheist’ and Nobel Laureate Paul Boyer

Among the many distinguished members of the Freedom From Religion Foundation was Nobel Laureate Paul D. Boyer, who died on Saturday, June 2, at age 99 in Los Angeles. We …

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June 7, 2018

FFRF ensures Illinois school district won’t have (a) prayer

The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s objection to an Illinois high school’s religious graduation ceremony has made certain that there won’t be any further imposition of religion in this school district. …

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June 6, 2018

FFRF condemns Ohio Senate’s discrimination toward nontheists

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is taking the Ohio Senate to task for its discriminatory invocation practices. Ohio Senate Clerk Vincent Keeran has made it clear that nontheists will not …

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June 6, 2018

FFRF urges Pompeo to invite atheists to religious freedom summit

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is asking that an upcoming State Department-organized global religious freedom conclave incorporate the nonreligious. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently announced the “first-ever Ministerial to …

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June 4, 2018

Missed opportunity: Supreme Court punts on important case, manufactures hostility toward religion where none existed

The Supreme Court missed an opportunity to strengthen the U.S. Constitution today, instead ruling that a state civil rights commission violated the free-exercise rights of the owner of a Colorado …

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