On May 13, a public school district in Muldrow, Okla., confirmed it had permanently removed Ten Commandments plaques posted in classrooms. The whistleblower was 16-year-old student Gage Pulliam, who is …
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Nicole M. Jacobsen
Nicole Jacobsen lives in Iowa and is completing her studies toward certification as a pharmacy technician. The case she writes so eloquently about is John Doe, Mary Roe and the …
2012 – Calli Miller
Calli Miller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student, is the recipient of a $1,000 Catherine Fahringer Memorial Student Activist Award from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The scholarship recognizes Calli’s extraordinary …
Scalia Hypes Dead Constitution (April 2001)
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a judicial version of a bible literalist, according to Foundation president Anne Gaylor, who, with other Foundation staff members, recently picketed Scalia when he …
Taxpayers Subsidize Proselytizing of Quake Victims? (April 2001)
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has called on the U.S. Agency for International Development to investigate allegations that a federally funded quake relief project in El Salvador is overtly proselytizing. …
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No Equal Protection for Unbelievers in Missouri (April 2001)
It was a miscarriage of justice when the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously on February 13 to uphold the constitutionality of a statute requiring a “So help me God” oath …
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Michigan School Mixes, Nixes Church and State (April 2001)
A complaint by the Freedom From Religion Foundation has halted an entanglement between a Methodist church and the public school district in Clio, Michigan. The city had agreed to donate …
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Colonel Bob Wilderness Area – Washington State by Annie Laurie Gaylor (April 2001)
“Are you aware that the Col. Bob Wilderness area on the Olympic Peninsula of the State of Washington is named after our Great Agnostic? Also Ingersoll Peak?” So queried a …
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A Feast of Freethought by Catherine Fahringer (April 2001)
During a period of three weeks, in this bastion of Catholicism, there were three different types of freethought entertainment. The two local stage productions were previewed and reviewed as what …
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