The Freedom From Religion Foundation awarded 15-year-old Honolulu student Kenji Ornellas a $1,000 student activist award in 2002. Kenji was a plaintiff in a lawsuit against his school, McKinley High, …
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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 …
Darrell Lambert
Darrell Lambert, who had been a Scout for ten years, more than half of his life, was expelled at age 19 from his troop in Washington State in November 2002 …
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 …
Blake Trettien
Ruth (“Dixie”) Jokinen Memorial As a high school student, Blake Trettien wrote a letter to county commissioners asking them to remove a Ten Commandments monument from Memorial Grounds Park in …
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 …
