News Releases Archive

December 30, 2009

Court: FFRF Can Sue Over S.C. School Religious Education

A U.S. District Court in South Carolina has ruled that a Freedom From Religion Foundation lawsuit against the Spartanburg County School District may proceed to the discovery process and to …

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December 29, 2009

Judge: Michigan County Can Ban Median Manger

A federal judge agreed with the Macomb County Road Commission that it could deny a permit for a Christian nativity scene on the median of an eight-lane highway in Warren, …

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December 24, 2009

Charleston Brouhaha Over FFRF’s Lighted Cross, Nativity Complaint

A Freedom From Religion Foundation complaint on behalf of the Foundation’s South Carolina members about a Christian nativity scene and Latin cross at Charleston Fire Station No. 12 had the …

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December 23, 2009

School to Coaches: Prayer Out of Bounds

A seventh-grade basketball coach in Bunker Hill, Ind., had no business offering prayers at practices and games along with advice on stopping opponents’ drives along the baseline. That was the …

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December 18, 2009

After FFRF Complaint: Long Island Fire Board Grudgingly Removes Creche

     A Christian nativity scene at the entrance to a municipal fire station in Huntington Station, N.Y., was removed after the Freedom From Religion Foundation notified the Board of Fire …

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December 18, 2009

FFRF to Place “No Gods” Banner at Loudoun Co. Courthouse

To counter a half-century state/church violation in Loudoun, Co. Va., the Freedom From Religion Foundation, with local members, will place a banner proclaiming "There are no gods" in front of …

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December 18, 2009

After FFRF Complains Ohio School Suspends ‘Belief in God’

The Uniontown, Ohio, school district’s professed value of “belief in God” appears to be going the way of “23 skidoo” after action Dec. 14 by the Lake Local Board of …

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December 16, 2009

Freedom From Religion Has Busy Legal Year

The year 2009 was a busy one for the small staff at the Freedom From Religion Foundation. At times it seemed that whenever we pushed one of organized religion’s grasping …

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December 14, 2009

Ohio Village’s Nativity Scene Down After FFRF Letter

A Christian nativity scene on village property in the Cincinnati suburb of Addyston, Ohio, vanished (some say almost miraculously) soon after a letter of complaint was sent by the Freedom …

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