News Releases Archive

May 29, 2003

Statement by Freethought Today editor Annie Laurie Gaylor

Hugging the Chains that Bind Sultaana Freeman took her legal fight to keep her head veiled for the photograph on her driver’s license to court this week. Freeman was pictured …

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May 13, 2003

Statement by Foundation President Anne Gaylor

Clergymen Share Culpability for Mother’s “Sacrifice” of Children This statement was released following news reports that fundamentalist mother Deanna LaJune Laney, of Tyler, Tex., has been charged with killing two …

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April 22, 2003

Time to Put Pressure on Paige

Secretary of Education Should Resign over Christian Bias (Madison, Wis.) The Freedom From Religion Foundation has called upon U.S. Secretary of Education Ron Paige to resign over recent remarks made …

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April 18, 2003

Foundation Calls for Compliance over Illegal Good Friday Closings in Wisconsin

(MADISON, WIS.) The Freedom From Religion Foundation has contacted several Wisconsin municipalities, schools and counties to remind them they must comply with the 1996 ruling in the FFRF vs. Thompson …

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April 17, 2003

Phone or Fax Office of Chaplain to Complain Today

FFRF Asks Pentagon to Cancel Franklin’s Good Friday Sermon (Madison, Wis.) The Freedom From Religion Foundation has written Army Col. George Campbell Jr., asking that he cancel a scheduled Good …

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April 2, 2003

Freedom From Religion Foundation Targets Bus Pass

Madison Metro Boosts Catholicism (MADISON, WI) As a watchdog group for state/church separation, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is protesting Madison Metro’s decision to place a picture of Mother Teresa …

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March 27, 2003

Oppose Day of “Fasting and Prayer”

Congress Entertains More Religious Window-Dressing (Madison, Wis.) The Freedom From Religion Foundation opposes a Congressional move to designate a “national day of prayer and fasting.” House Resolution 153, which passed …

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March 20, 2003

U.S. House Sells Out Constitution in “Under God” Vote

Seven Who Vote “Nay” Deserve Thanks (Madison, WI) The Freedom From Religion Foundation praised the integrity of the seven members of the U.S. House who opposed today’s House vote condemning …

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March 20, 2003

U.S. House Sells Out Constitution in “Under God” Vote

Seven Who Vote Nay” Deserve Thanks (Madison, WI) The Freedom From Religion Foundation praised the integrity of the seven members of the U.S. House who opposed today’s House vote condemning …

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