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FFRF announces 2023 BIPOC student essay winners
The Freedom from Religion Foundation is proud to announce the 11 winners and 11 honorable mentions of the 2023 David Hudak Memorial Black, Indigenous and Persons of Color Student Essay …
FFRF decries circuit court’s reprehensible mifepristone ruling
The Freedom From Religion Foundation condemns yesterday’s reprehensible U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in favor of severe abortion medication restrictions. Not only would this ruling limit abortion …
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Wis. swim team allowed to participate on Rosh Hashanah after FFRF intervenes
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has successfully convinced the Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District in Middleton, Wis. to allow the girls swim and dive team to participate in an invitational …
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BREAKING: FFRF legally intervenes to preserve its N.J. Supreme Court funding win
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is taking legal action to preserve its 2018 New Jersey Supreme Court win that halted unconstitutional official funding of church repairs. The state/church watchdog filed …
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FFRF again asks S.C. school board members to cease prayer
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is once again asking the Dorchester School District Two School Board to stop opening meetings with a scheduled prayer. In 2021, FFRF contacted the …
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FFRF denounces judge’s Southwest Airlines “religious-liberty training” order
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is decrying a U.S. district judge’s order requiring Southwest Airlines lawyers to take “religious-liberty training” from a theocratic legal group. A flight attendant sued Southwest …
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Animated music video to lift secular spirits, compliments of FFRF
In honor of one of secularism’s many talented voices, the poet Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) — whose birthday is today, Aug. 3 — the Freedom From Religion Foundation is sharing the …
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Mich. school district drops prayer after FFRF intervenes
A Michigan school district has deleted Christian prayer from its senior award ceremony after the Freedom From Religion Foundation conveyed the objection of parents to officials. A concerned Vicksburg Community …
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Texas school district to end promotion of prayer thanks to FFRF
Due to the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s efforts, Burnet Consolidated ISD will no longer promote a prayer marathon event before the start of the fall semester. A concerned complainant reported …
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