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“God Told Me To Do It”
Church bloodbath. Seven church members, including the minister and his teenage son, were gunned down and killed, and four others wounded in a bloodbath by congregation member Terry Ratzmann during …
The Doctor-Killer Reads His Bible
by Philip Appleman Heretics may be justly slain.” –St. Thomas Aquinas “The defendant’s attorney argued that the killing of those who performed abortions was ‘consistent with biblical truth.’ “—The New …
High Court Hears Decalog Case
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on March 2 in one of two appeals it has accepted over the constitutionality of Ten Commandments postings on public property. The case …
La Crosse Decalog Case Ends in Partial Victory
The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in late February refused a request by the Freedom From Religion Foundation for a full panel (en banc) review of a decision by …
FFRF Pursues Right to Sue White House “Faith-based” Office
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national state/church watchdog group, is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit to reinstate the Foundation’s legal challenge over creation of …
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No Judicial Utility in Ten Commandments
Hon. M. Ashley McKathanCovington County Courthouse1-K North Court SquareAndalusia AL 36420-3995 Dear Judge McKathan: Press reports on the decalogial embroidery of your judicial costume claim you did it because the …
Excerpt of FFRF Amicus Brief in Van Orden Case: James A. Friedman and James D. Peterson
This is an excerpt of the thorough, 23-page “friend of the court” brief filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation before the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Thomas Van …
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Seventh-day Adventist to Atheist: Martin Boyd
By Martin Boyd, M.D. “With Special Forces Training Group at Ft. Bragg, N.C., around 1968-69.” I’m the eldest of five children born in Albuquerque, N.M., to a Seventh-day Adventist couple. …