News Releases Archive

April 3, 2015

FFRF secular display returns to Daley Plaza for Easter balance

 The nation’s largest association of atheists and agnostics and its Chicago chapter are placing a patriotic red-white-and-blue secular display to counter a large Catholic Easter display at Daley Plaza in …

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April 2, 2015

FFRF asks Conn. and Va. governors to repeal own state RFRAs

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling on the governors of Connecticut and Virginia to take the lead in repealing their states’ versions of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. While …

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April 2, 2015

FFRF’s In Reason We Trust display stolen from Wis. Capitol

  A Freedom From Religion Foundation “In Reason We Trust” sign was stolen March 28 from the first floor Capitol rotunda in Madison, Wis. The sign features Thomas Jefferson with …

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April 1, 2015

Hip, hip hooray for the Madison City Council and Anita Weier

In the face of the cascade of state laws being adopted letting religionists discriminate, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is delighted to announce some good news: that the Common Council …

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April 1, 2015

Atheist inspirational book no April Fool’s joke

Dan Barker’s newest book, debuting today, Life Driven Purpose: How an Atheist Finds Meaning, challenges the Rev. Rick Warren. Rev. Rick Warren’s best-selling Christian book, Purpose Driven Life, begins with the sentence, …

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March 31, 2015

FFRF objects to evangelist’s speech at Mich. school

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent a letter of complaint and records request to Iron Mountain Public Schools in Iron Mountain, Mich., after the school district allowed speaker Bob …

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March 31, 2015

Stop the hate, #boycottindiana, overturn RFRA laws everywhere

Statement by Annie Laurie GaylorFFRF Co-PresidentFreedom From Religion Foundation When my mother-in-law Pat Barker’s eyes were opened to religion after a lifetime of devout fundamentalist belief, she poignantly told my …

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March 27, 2015

FFRF expels ‘Bible Man’ from Tenn. school

An evangelist known as “Bible Man” will no longer be permitted to lead religious classes at Coalmont Elementary School in Altamont, Tenn., after the Freedom From Religion Foundation lodged a …

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March 27, 2015

FFRF condemns passage of RFRA law in Indiana

Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed the “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” into law yesterday, which gives religious citizens and corporations freedom to break laws that they feel go against their religion. …

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