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FFRF challenges Indiana sheriff’s jailhouse baptism event
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is demanding that the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, based in Bloomington, immediately stop sponsoring Christian devotional events at the correctional facility, including pressuring inmates to undergo …
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FFRF castigates second House Judiciary hearing targeting SPLC
Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing targeting the Southern Poverty Law Center is the latest step in a coordinated effort to intimidate organizations challenging Christian nationalism and other forms of extremism. …
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FFRF calls out Pentagon for sidelining ‘atheists in foxholes’ and others
FFRF Lifetime Member Joseph Cunningham, a veteran who served in World War II, standing beside FFRF’s monument to “atheists in foxholes and other freethinkers.” Maintaining that there are indeed many …
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FFRF welcomes judicial check on transgender military ban
Photo by Joel Rivera-Camacho The Freedom From Religion Foundation welcomes a federal appeals court decision calling the Trump administration’s ban on transgender troops illegal for targeting service members based on their gender identity.A …
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FFRF denounces federal CHARLIE Act censorship bill
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is sounding the alarm on a federal bill that would inject ideological censorship into federally supported history and civics education programs. HR 8705, the so-called …
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New episode of ‘Secular Spotlight’ examines religious released time programs
The latest episode of the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s web series describes how to counter a religious group’s devouring of precious public school time.FFRF’s Ryan Jayne, Sammi Lawrence and Mickey …
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FFRF pushes for Ga. school district to remove unconstitutional ‘prayer box’
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is demanding that a middle school in Walton County School District (Monroe, Ga.) remove a box asking for students’ prayers.A concerned district community member informed the state/church …
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FFRF pushes back against wave of Texas Ten Commandments displays
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is objecting to a new Ten Commandments monument outside Amarillo City Hall — the second such display in Texas that it has recently confronted. The …
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La. school system heeds FFRF call to ban the Gideons
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has successfully advised a Louisiana school district to bar a religious organization from handing out bibles to its students. A concerned family member informed the state/church …
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