News Releases Archive

December 19, 2014

‘Reason’s Greetings’ by nonbelievers goes up in N.Y. park

A freethought display will go up today in VFW Park in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., to counter two religious holiday displays traditionally hosted in the park, a Catholic church’s nativity scene and …

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December 19, 2014

Nebraska Statehouse crèche balanced by “no god” sign (briefly)

  When Scott Braly, a local Lincoln freethinker, read a disturbing news article that the Roman Catholic Thomas More Society had placed a nativity in his state Capitol for the …

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December 17, 2014

Georgia U reprimands creationist prof.

Georgia Southern University ordered a proselytizing professor to stop promoting religion in his classroom after a complaint by the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science prompted …

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December 17, 2014

FFRF sues Walker administration over open records violation

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed its first lawsuit over a violation of open records law, after a track record of taking more than 60 Establishment Clause lawsuits. In a suit …

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December 16, 2014

Friendly atheists featured on 11 billboards in Chicago this month

  Eleven friendly and thought-provoking billboards featuring members of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and its chapter, the FFRF Metropolitan Chicago Chapter, are going up this week in Chicagoland in …

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December 16, 2014

FFRF sues Indiana county over its nativity display

The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a federal lawsuit today against Franklin County, Ind., which annually places a prominent nativity display in front of the Franklin County Courthouse in Brookville. …

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December 15, 2014

FFRF adds 18 plaintiffs to school board prayer suit in Chino, Calif.

Nearly 50 Chino residents have contacted the Freedom From Religion Foundation in support of FFRF’s lawsuit against the Chino Valley Unified School District School Board, Calif, since the state/church watchdog filed a …

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December 15, 2014

FFRF case rests in second Pa. Ten Commandments case

The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed for summary judgment Friday, Dec. 12, in its federal lawsuit against a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of New Kensington-Arnold School District’s Valley …

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December 12, 2014

FFRF lawsuit ends grad prayer in S.C. school district

A federal lawsuit first filed in June 2012 by the Freedom From Religion Foundation on behalf of graduating seniors subjected to graduation prayer — who were forced to vote on …

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