News Releases Archive

September 13, 2013

“Constitution Day” ad to appear Sunday in Bloomington paper

Click HERE to see the high resolution image.   The Freedom From Religion Foundation is celebrating Constitution Day, Sept. 17, marking the 226th anniversary of adoption of the U.S. Constitution, …

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September 12, 2013

Updated FFRF Statement on Coos Bay

Earlier this week, a person or persons identifying themselves as representing nonreligious veterans claimed responsibility for two explosions involving the cross memorial in Mingus Park and the Bay Area House …

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September 12, 2013

New York ‘Sukkahs’ need to stop obstructing pedestrians

The Freedom From Religion Foundation opposes the illegal construction of temporary structures called sukkahs that are annually placed on Brooklyn, N.Y., public sidewalks each year for the Jewish holiday Sukkot. …

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September 11, 2013

FFRF gears up for national convention

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is holding its 36th national convention Sept. 27-29 in its home base of Madison, Wis., where the annual gathering of atheists, agnostics and freethinkers is …

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September 5, 2013

Tennessee school caught in illegal shift

The Freedom From Religion Foundation started objecting in 2012 to illegal prayer at South Pittsburg [Tenn.] High School at football games, where the prayer blared over the public address system, …

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September 3, 2013

We don’t trust in god, or Hobby Lobby: How accurate was Hobby Lobby’s July 4th Ad?

The Christian trinket-purveyor Hobby Lobby places religious holiday ads in national newspapers reaching in some cases more than 47 million readers. Hobby Lobby’s July 4, 2013 ad features quotes from the …

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August 28, 2013

Thousands donate food, skip Mass

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has been hard at work for the past few years ensuring attendees at several annual festivals in Milwaukee do not need to attend Catholic Mass …

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August 26, 2013

FFRF Statement on Mingus Park Cross

The Freedom From Religion Foundation was dismayed and shocked to learn of an explosion in Coos Bay, Ore., late last week at a public park where FFRF has formally objected …

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August 26, 2013

FFRF wins standing to sue IRS over Form 990

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which has three historic lawsuits in federal district court over preferential treatment of churches and ministers by the Internal Revenue Service, says it now has …

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