Thomas Jefferson Student Activist Award Matthew LaClair was a 16-year-old junior whose American history teacher has acted more like a preacher than a teacher. Matthew’s actions to protest religion in …
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Ruth “Dixie” Jokinen Student Activist Award In 1997, Freedom From Religion Foundation Board Member Richard Mole generously endowed an annual Student Activist Award, in the memory of Ruth “Dixie” Jokinen. …
O’Connor, Ginsburg Assail Extremists
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, at a March 9 speech at Georgetown University, warned of the dangers of dictatorship in the United States. The sole reporter present, Nina …
In Brief
Agnostic Heads Chile Michelle Bachelet, who is openly nontheist, was sworn in as Chile’s first female president in mid-March. Bachelet, a former torture victim, is a doctor and single mother. …
In Religion’s Name
Pastor Blames Demons A mistrial in the murder trial of a religious woman who fatally cut off her baby daughter’s arms was declared on Feb. 25. Dena Schlosser, 37, of …
In Their Own Words
Rejecting Islam is insulting God. We will not allow God to be humiliated. This man [Christian convert Abdul Rahman] must die. Cut off his head! We will call on the …
Study: Atheists Most Discriminated Minority
America’s increasing acceptance of religious diversity does not extend to atheists, according to a national survey released in late March by the University of Minnesota’s department of sociology. A telephone …
Gaylor Calls for Tourists to “Bypass South Dakota”
Anne Gaylor Anne Gaylor, founder and president emerita of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, as volunteer administrator of the charitable Women’s Medical Fund, was the first to call on tourists …
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Oshkosh Complaint Commands Headlines
Several full pages of letters in The Oshkosh Northwestern were devoted to the Foundation’s complaint in March. Headlines tell the story: “Memorial Creates Controversy” (3/8/06) “Mayor called Park Angel ‘Done …
