Penn & Teller, magicians and entertainers in Las Vegas, were presented with the Emperor Has No Clothes Award by Nevada freethinkers Jennifer and Clark Adams, on behalf of the Freedom …
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Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin is living proof of the threat posed to women’s liberty by fundamentalist religion. The Bengali author and physician has been subject to a series of fatwas, or religious …
Julia Sweeney – “Freethought Comedienne of the Year” Award
Julia Sweeney came to Hollywood not as an actor but as an accountant. The oldest in a family of five children raised in Spokane, Washington, she put her interest in …
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Michael Newdow
Dr. Newdow won the most significant state/church victory of 2002 when a 3-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in his favor on June 26, 2002, that …
Steve Benson
Pulitzer Prize-winning daily editorial cartoonist Steve Benson received the Foundation’s “Emperor Has No Clothes” award at the 25th annual FFRF convention in San Diego on Nov. 23, 2002. Steve and …
Robert Sapolsky
Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg, the first “Emperor” awardee, says that although few of his scientific colleagues believe in a god, they keep their atheistic/agnostic views to themselves. But not scientist …
Emily Lyons – “Special Recognition” Award
Emily Lyons, a nurse, survived the bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1998. After months of recovery, she has dedicated her time to speaking for women’s rights …
Robert R. Tiernan
Robert Tiernan, an attorney and past president of the Denver chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, is a criminal defense lawyer and First Amendment defender. He has brought several …
Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt, poet, author and columnist of the “Subject to Debate” biweekly column in The Nation, was the second convention recipient of the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “Emperor Has No …
