News Releases Archive

October 28, 2015

FFRF: Consequences of Wisconsin statewide voucher expansion showing

The recent statewide voucher expansion in Wisconsin is starting to reveal its harm to public school districts and secular education, according to the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The Wisconsin Department …

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October 21, 2015

FFRF’s ‘Pray to Play’ expose still making waves, pushing schools in right direction

Virginia Tech is no longer giving preferred access to the school’s football bowl games to religious advisers following the “Pray to Play” exposé by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. For …

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October 19, 2015

Texas school district makes changes after FFRF complaint

A Texas school district will no longer allow the high school principal to preach to students at a student-led prayer event or set up a religious after-school club after the …

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October 15, 2015

FFRF urges Wash. school district to hold firm against praying coach

Bremerton High School football coach Joe Kennedy appeared with the Liberty Institute’s deputy chief counsel Hiram Sasser on Fox & Friends this morning. The Freedom From Religion Foundation is asking …

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October 14, 2015

FFRF debuts first-ever ‘atheist marquee’

Photo above: FFRF’s new ‘atheist marquee.’   Below: The marquee was the idea of FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie. Photos: Andrew Seidel. While almost every Christian church in the United States — …

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October 14, 2015

Nonbelief Relief gives grant to Doctors Without Borders, seeks donations from nonbelievers

Nonbelief Relief, a new humanitarian agency for “atheists, agnostics, freethinkers and their supporters to improve this world, our only world,” is announcing its first grant: $20,000 to Doctors Without Borders …

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October 13, 2015

FFRF ends longtime Portland schools Grotto violation

Portland, Oregon, public schools will no longer be performing during a holiday chorale concert at a Catholic shrine after the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter alerting the district …

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October 12, 2015

FFRF, Univ. of Fla. agree to add Thomas Paine quote to Heavener Hall

Following a complaint by the Freedom From Religion Foundation over an Old Testament verse inscribed at the newly-erected Heavener School of Business, the University of Florida at Gainesville has added a quote …

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October 12, 2015

FFRF protests Ky. city’s water tower cross

The Freedom From Religion Foundation strongly objects to the display of a cross sitting atop the Wilmore, Ky. water tower. “It is unlawful for Wilmore to display a patently religious …

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