News Releases Archive

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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February 28, 2023

FFRF demands Pa. school district end partnership with local church

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is insisting that the Canton Area School District immediately end its partnership with a local church. FFRF received a complaint from a concerned member of …

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February 27, 2023

LGBTQ population growth demonstrates even more why bigoted bills must be opposed

A demographic sea change is occurring in the United States. The number of adults identifying as LGBTQ has almost doubled in the last decade, from 3.5 percent in 2012 to …

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February 24, 2023

Feminist atheist author, still feisty at 92, on FFRF’s Sunday TV show

Watch the teaser here. A feisty pioneering freethinking feminist author is the guest on the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “Freethought Matters” TV show this Sunday. Barbara G. Walker, originally known …

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February 23, 2023

FFRF stops Christian class at Ohio primary school

  A legal complaint by the Freedom From Religion Foundation has halted an unconstitutional sectarian Christian class at an elementary school in Leipsic Local School District in Leipsic, Ohio. Leipsic …

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