News Releases Archive

August 24, 2011

FFRF asks Terre Haute to ‘Imagine No Religion’

A 14×48-foot billboard emblazoned with a John Lennonesque message, “Imagine No Religion,” and a stained-glass window backdrop, went up in Terre Haute, Ind., this week near the fairgrounds. The billboard, …

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August 23, 2011

FFRF ends football prayers in Mississippi, Kentucky schools

Recent letters of complaint by the Freedom From Religion Foundation have ended longstanding violations in DeSoto County, Miss., and Bell County, Ky., involving illegal prayer before school football games. The …

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August 17, 2011

Care Net gone from wisconsin.gov

The state of Wisconsin appears to have removed a link to a religious anti-abortion group from its website after receiving a letter of objection from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. …

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August 12, 2011

Sand Springs City Council: ‘First Amendment does not apply to us’

Background Sand Springs, Okla., a city near Tulsa, has become embroiled in a familiar state/church controversy — a resident has asked the city council to stop praying on government time, …

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August 11, 2011

FFRF protests graduation, athletic prayers

The Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter of complaint on behalf of concerned parents and other Mississippi FFRF members to DeSoto County Schools in Hernando. The Aug. 10 letter …

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August 11, 2011

Principal pushed school prayer

The Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter of complaint Aug. 10 about illegal school prayer to Superintendent Wayne Rodolfich of the Pascagoula [Miss.] School District. FFRF, a state-church watchdog …

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August 10, 2011

We protested Perry in 100-plus heat and survived!

Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy. — Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce’s words kept going through my …

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August 2, 2011

Billboard scrutiny leads tax man to Ohio church

An Ohio pastor’s insistence that a Freedom From Religion Foundation billboard be moved off church property in Columbus appears to have backfired. Shortly after Columbus atheist Dylan Galos’ “Coming Out …

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August 1, 2011

Gaylor writes Cong. Rangel appeal to remember secular Americans

SENT VIA US MAIL AND FAX (202)225-4365 Congressman Charles B. Rangel 2354 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515 Dear Congressman Rangel: On behalf of members of our national association …

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