Taslima Nasrin received FFRF’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award at our 2015 National Convention. She has been living under a death fatwa for blasphemy by Bangladesh imams since 1993. She …
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Steven Hewett
Steven Hewett will be honored with FFRF’s Atheist in Foxhole Award. The former police officer and Afghanistan war veteran returned home with a Combat Action Badge and Bronze Star, only …
Thomas Sheedy – Richard and Beverly Hermsen Student Activist Award
Thomas Sheedy, 17, will receive FFRF’s Richard and Beverly Hermsen Student Activist Award of $5,000. Thomas is a senior at Ward Meville High School, East Setauket, N.Y. He is founder …
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Ernie Chambers
Senator Ernie Chambers, the longest serving state senator in Nebraska, will receive the Emperor Has No Clothes Award. He challenged his legislature’s payment to ministers to open sessions in Marsh …
Anita Weier
Anita Weier was be honored as Freethought Heroine for introducing a historic ordinance to make “nonreligion” a protected class in Madison, Wis. Her first of its kind ordinance passed with …
Brooke Mulder
Brooke Mulder received a Nothing Fails Like Prayer Award for her secular invocation (to balance religious invocations) before the city council in Glendale, Ariz. Brooke is a native Floridian who’s …
“Doe 4” – Richard and Beverly Hermsen Student Activist Award
This student is known as Doe 4 in the FFRF Vs. Connersville case. Doe 4 was an anonymous complainant in this case and FFRF is keeping their identity confidential. Learn …
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“Doe 1” – Richard and Beverly Hermsen Student Activist Award
This student is known as Doe 1 in the FFRF Vs. New Kensington case. Doe 1 was an anonymous complainant in this case and FFRF is keeping their identity confidential. …
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Morrigan Turner – In Memory of Tony Ross Student Activist Award
For our first three years of high school, we had often discussed how the Pledge of Allegiance made us uncomfortable. We had joked and made vague plans for how, when …
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