News Releases Archive

March 6, 2023

FFRF joins 200-plus advocates in abortion appeal to the United Nations

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has joined hundreds of rights advocates in an urgent appeal to U.N. officials to hold the United States accountable for its wrecking of abortion rights. …

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March 3, 2023

FFRF appreciates State Department reward for freethinker Avijit Roy’s killers

On the eighth anniversary of his assassination, the Freedom From Religion Foundation appreciates that the State Department is still determined that the killers of Bangladeshi-American freethinker Avijit Roy be brought …

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March 3, 2023

Look for ‘unabashed atheist’ spot on ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ this month

The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s irreverent ad featuring Ron (“unabashed atheist, not afraid of burning in hell”) Reagan will run on every “CBS Sunday Morning” episode in March, beginning this …

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March 3, 2023

FFRF applauds Biden’s repeal of religious discrimination rule

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is celebrating the Biden administration’s decision to repeal a Trump administration-era rule that allowed federal contractors to discriminate in the name of religion. The Trump …

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March 2, 2023

National Prayer Breakfast dissected on FFRF’s Sunday TV show

A leading investigative reporter skewers the quasi-official National Prayer Breakfast on the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Sunday “Freethought Matters” TV show. Jonathan Larsen is not only an investigative reporter and …

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March 2, 2023

Minnesota county Ten Commandments display averted — thanks to FFRF

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national state/church watchdog, has successfully prevented a Ten Commandments display from going up in a courthouse in Kanabec County, Minn. A concerned community member …

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March 1, 2023

Mayor Adams: You’re the servant of the people, not ‘God’

Take back your unconstitutional God-obeisant statements, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is asking the New York City mayor. During a New York Library interfaith prayer breakfast yesterday, Mayor Eric Adams …

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February 28, 2023

Disband religion-pandering committee, FFRF urges Okla. education superintendent

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is strenuously objecting to the Oklahoma state superintendent of public instruction’s recent political prostration before religious ministers. Superintendent Ryan Walters received a letter from several Oklahoma …

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February 28, 2023

Our rights do not come from ‘God,’ Gov. DeSantis

One of the favorite claims of Christian nationalists is the bogus assertion, most recently repeated by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, that “our rights come from God, not government.” DeSantis pointed …

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