Barbara Ehrenreich was given a “Freethought Heroine” award because of her forthright willingness to identify herself is a “none” in many nationally-circulated columns, and her life-long commitment to promoting rationalism. …
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Steve Benson – Freethought in the Media “Tell It Like It Is” Award
Steve Benson, the first grandson of the late head of the Mormon Church, Ezra Taft Benson, had been an editorial cartoonist with the Arizona Republic for 18 years at the …
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Steven Weinberg
Prof. Steven Weinberg, the first official recipient of the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award, accepted the award in person on November 1999, at the Foundation’s annual …
MaryKait Durkee
In April 1998, a 15-year-old student made national headlines for refusing to stand for the religious pledge of allegiance in her California classroom. Since then, MaryKait Durkee, with the support …
Floyd Olson, Mary Porath, Alan Porath, and Esther Mattson
Floyd Olson, Mary and Alan Porath, and Esther Mattson were plaintiffs in the Freedom From Religion Foundation's lawsuit against Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, to enforce a federal court ruling against government …
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Ann Druyan
Ann Druyan is an author, lecturer and TV and motion picture writer/producer whose work is largely concerned with the effects of science and technology on our society. She co-wrote the …
Michael Chandler
Michael Chandler challenged numerous illegal religious practices in the public school when he was assistant principal in Dekalb County, Alabama. Aided by the ACLU, he brought a lawsuit in 1996 …
Rachel Bauchman
Rachel Bauchman spoke at the nineteenth annual convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin, on October 12, 1996. At that time, she was a 17-year-old senior in …
Kristin Lems
Singer and songwriter Kristin Lems received the “Charline Kotula Freethought Heroine Memorial Award,” accepting her award in person at the 1996 national convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation in …
