Ellery Schempp, an FFRF Lifetime Member and recipient of its Champion of the First Amendment award, is an accomplished Ph.D. physicist. He was a plaintiff in Abington School District v. Schempp, …
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Thomas Jefferson Student Activist Award Matthew LaClair was a 16-year-old junior whose American history teacher has acted more like a preacher than a teacher. Matthew’s actions to protest religion in …
Remarks by Annie Laurie Gaylor, Foundation co-president: Our office has enjoyed Stephanie Salter’s op-ed columns for the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle for many years, and has corresponded a few …
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Ruth “Dixie” Jokinen Student Activist Award In 1997, Freedom From Religion Foundation Board Member Richard Mole generously endowed an annual Student Activist Award, in the memory of Ruth “Dixie” Jokinen. …
Introductory remarks by Annie Laurie Gaylor, Oct. 7, 2006. The bravest people in the world today, in my opinion, are the women raised in Islam who publicly reject religion or …
Michael L. (“Mikey”) Weinstein filed suit in federal court in October 2005 against the Air Force to end illegal proselytizing and evangelizing. The lawsuit was recently thrown out on standing. …
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Philip Paulson was a Vietnam-era US military veteran, who served as a combat paratrooper, light-weapons infantryman and point man. He was an active member of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Association …
A son of Santa Rosa, Calif., and a product of the St. Louis public school system, Mike Keefe, editorial cartoonist for the Denver Post, now lives in Evergreen, Colo., at …
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Introduced by Dan Barker Did you know that Julia Sweeney came to Hollywood not as an actor but as an accountant? Julia Sweeney is the oldest in a family of …
