Important legal successes include:
- Winning the first federal lawsuit challenging direct funding by the government of a faith-based agency
- Overturning a state Good Friday holiday, Good Friday plaintiffs included Foundation staff and state employees.
- Winning a lawsuit barring direct taxpayer subsidy of religious schools
- Removing Ten Commandments monuments and crosses from public land
- Halting the Post Office from issuing religious cancellations
- Ending 51 years of illegal bible instruction in public schools
- Winning the first court order to a U.S. Cabinet revoking federal funds to a pervasively sectarian agency
- Halting federal funds to a bible school offering no academic classes
- Ending “parish nursing” faith/health entanglements at two state universities
- Halting a government chaplaincy to minister to state workers
Foundation complaints have:
- Halted prayer at public schools, institutions, and public financing of nativity pageants and Easter services
- Stopped direct subsidy to religious schools
- Stopped Job Corps trainees from being assigned to work on a Catholic shrine
- Ended a 122-year abuse of commencement prayers at a Top Ten University
- Declared unconstitutional the creation of a state post to “assist clergy”
Other court victories include:
- Winning a legal challenge ending 51 years of illegal bible instruction in rhea county (dayton, tennessee) schools
- Declaring unconstitutional the creation of a state post to “assist clergy” to save marriages
- Stopping school subsidy of child evangelism
- Removing a nativity scene from the entrance of a city hall
- Forcing a mayor to suspend sponsorship of a day of prayer
To read about these lawsuits, victories and ongoing litigation, as well as FFRF’s substantial accomplishments ending state/church violations without going to court, see the links at right, “In This Section.”
