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 …
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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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Faith-based Initiative a Bad Idea by John S. Compere (April 2001)
The current administration’s proposed legislation to grant money from federal tax coffers to “faith-based organizations” to help provide services to various needy groups should be studied carefully . . . …
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What Made Me Turn To Atheism by Carl Zimmerling (April 2000)
It really started over sixty years ago in (Nazi) Germany where I was born and where I spent my childhood and youth, while I was raised by moderately Christian (Lutheran) …
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Steven Weinberg: Free People From Superstition
Professor Steven Weinberg prefaced his acceptance speech as the first Emperor Has No Clothes awardee by saying, “I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn’t start with an invocation!” Weinberg …
