News Releases Archive

July 28, 2025

Office of Personnel Management religion-workplace changes shockingly unconstitutional

The Freedom From Religion Foundation deplores as outrageous and unconstitutional a memo the Office of Personnel Management released today that purports to protect religious expression in the federal workplace but …

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July 28, 2025

FFRF renews opposition to extremist bible study at highest levels of U.S. government

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is raising a red flag over the resurgence of a bible study group featuring senior U.S. officials, including members of President Trump’s cabinet. Capitol Ministries, …

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July 24, 2025

Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial venue has Ten Commandments display during centennial

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling for the removal of a Ten Commandments plaque from the historic Rhea County (Tenn.) Courthouse — the site of the famed 1925 Scopes …

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July 22, 2025

FFRF slams Florida education commissioner’s religious letter to parents

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is strongly criticizing an inappropriate and exclusionary letter that Florida’s education commissioner has recently dispatched statewide. On July 14, Commissioner of Education Anastasios Kamoutsas sent …

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July 17, 2025

Court should deny parent’s religion-fueled attempt to veto school policy, says FFRF amicus brief

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the Secular Student Alliance in a case before the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals defending a New York …

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July 15, 2025

FFRF slams Trump for ridiculing atheists and advancing religious agenda at CEO lunch

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is strongly condemning President Donald Trump’s latest effort to entangle religion and government through a White House event rewarding wealthy business leaders for promoting religion …

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July 15, 2025

FFRF rebukes Speaker Johnson’s attack on Johnson Amendment and state/church separation

Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling out Speaker of the House Mike Johnson for misrepresenting the history of state/church …

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July 14, 2025

Oklahomans challenging nation’s first religious public school declare victory, end lawsuit

Declaring victory in the legal effort to block what would have been the nation’s first religious public school, a group of Oklahoma faith leaders, public school parents and public education …

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July 10, 2025

FFRF opposes DoD’s coercive bible study classes at Walter Reed Hospital

Photo by Diego González on Unsplash  The Freedom From Religion Foundation is urging the Defense Health Agency, the Department of Defense and staff at Walter Reed Hospital to end coercive religious programming and activities. A Walter …

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