This article is adapted from the acceptance speech for the 1999 Freethought Heroine Award, presented to author Barbara Ehrenreich by the Freedom From Religion Foundation in San Antonio on November …
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Ruth (Dixie) Jokinen Award In 1996, Pelham High School senior Adam Butler of Alabama requested the right to form a freethought club at his high school, right in the middle …
April 1998 The following correspondence documents a Civil-Rights victory. See story on page 1. October 23, 1997 Dear Mr Kopp: We are writing to inform you that, under the Civil …
April 1998 By Annie Laurie Gaylor This speech was given on March 14, 1998, from the pulpit of the historic Sixteenth Avenue Baptist church in Birmingham Alabama. The occasion was …
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Freethought Today, April 1998 By Dan Barker In 1980, I was right in the middle of my swing from fundamentalist minister to atheist, moving out of evangelcalism. The reason I …
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Ruth (Dixie) Jokinen Memorial Graduate student Chris McDougal became the first recipient of the annual Student Activist Award/Ruth (Dixie) Jokinen Memorial, at the 20th annual Freedom From Religion Foundation in …
None of the lawsuits taken by the Freedom From Religion Foundation has been frivolous. Had the courts strictly adhered to the separation of church and state, all should have been …
April 1996 By Annie Laurie Gaylor Waynesboro, PA Complaint Following illegal distribution of New Testaments last fall by Gideons International in elementary schools in Waynesboro, PA, a father there is …
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What Is A Freethinker? By Dan Barker free-think-er n. A person who forms opinions about religion on the basis of reason, independently of tradition, authority, or established belief. Freethinkers include …
