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The Freedom From Religion Foundation is pleased to announce that its secular studies endowment to Pitzer College is being tapped this spring to offer a one-of-a-kind course on African American humanism. A year after FFRF’s funding of a $300,000 secular studies endowment at Pitzer College, Sikivu… More »
Religiously inspired anti-abortion legislators are ramping up their efforts nationwide to deny women abortion access — with denizens of the Peach State leading the latest attack. Anti-choice legislators in Georgia have introduced a bill that would ban the delivery of abortion pills by mail. This… More »
As the biblical maxim goes, “Ask and ye shall receive.” Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin asked recently for parents and individuals to report “divisive practices in the schools” via a tipline, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation has obliged. Youngkin’s controversial move has been branded as a… More »
Watch the teaser here. A prominent member of the Congressional Freethought Caucus is the guest on the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “Freethought Matters” TV show on Sunday. Rep. Hank Johnson is in his eighth term representing Georgia’s 4th District, which includes Atlanta’s eastern suburbs. He… More »
The Freedom from Religion Foundation continues to see progress being made as more and more members of Congress abandon the National Prayer Breakfast. Thanks to extensive reporting from Jonathan Larsen of TYT Investigates, we are seeing more information about how destructive the National Prayer Breakfast… More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation welcomes Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement and calls on President Biden to nominate a replacement who will be faithful to the constitutional separation between state and church. Breyer has a mixed record on state/church separation. He has often taken a… More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has successfully taught school boards around the country about the importance of adhering to the Constitution, recently halting the unconstitutional practice of prayer at three different school districts. Multiple concerned parents reported to the state/church watchdog that the Yancey County… More »
With the future of abortion rights grim, the Freedom From Religion Foundation has joined hundreds of other groups in asking the Senate to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act. This historic piece of legislation would codify and protect the right to an abortion in all… More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has been (almost) rendered speechless by a Georgian mayor’s offering of communion at his recent swearing-in ceremony. Immediately following his swearing-in on Jan. 10, broadcast on Fairburn’s official Facebook page and over Zoom, Mayor Mario Avery “led the crowd —… More »
Watch the teaser here. This Sunday’s edition of “Freethought Matters,” the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s weekly public affairs show, features a brave out-of-the-closet Utah senator. State Senator Derek Kitchen, a former Mormon, explains why he changed his mind about religion, ran for public office and… More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is expressing its concern to the Delaware governor about religious exceptions to his recently enacted mask mandate. Amid a spike in Covid-19 cases led by the Omicron variant, Gov. John Carney has signed a new mask mandate on Monday, Jan.… More »
This Saturday, Jan. 22, marks 49 years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic ruling that access to abortion is a constitutional right. The 7-2 Roe v. Wade decision was a momentous game-changer for the rights and lives of American women. The Supreme Court… More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is tickled to announce that its iconic ad featuring Ron Reagan is scheduled to air this weekend for the first time ever on a primetime feature TV series. The spot was to run during all four of the January broadcasts… More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is not “okay” with Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor’s recent troubling remarks suggesting that America is governed by “God the creator.” Following the attorney general’s controversial remarks at a Rotary Club luncheon, the national state/church watchdog sent a prompt Jan.… More »
The dismaying Christian flag case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court today will have an unclear impact for future cases, the Freedom From Religion Foundation warns. The high court this morning heard the case of Shurtleff v. City of Boston, involving a demand by a… More »
At a time when secularists and the world in general are in dire need of good news, the Thomas Paine Memorial Association (TPMA) is providing something to cheer about! The new Paine association announces an exciting matching gift offer to kick off fundraising for that… More »
The US Supreme Court once again has signaled its intent to wreak havoc upon the constitutional principle of separation between state and church by accepting an outlier appeal from a religious litigant — in this case today accepting a challenge from prayerful Coach Joe Kennedy.… More »
Amid a relentless onslaught of anti-abortion bills at the state level, the Freedom From Religion Foundation celebrates passage of a positive piece of reproductive rights legislation. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday, Jan. 13, signed a bill into law that enshrines abortion rights in… More »
The U.S. Supreme Court today issued two decisions on vaccine mandates, unfortunately one of which will have adverse effects on our nation’s ability to stem the deadly pandemic. In two separate rulings, the high court blocked a “vaccination-or-test” rule for large employers, while upholding a… More »
Click here to watch the teaser. One of the legends in Establishment Clause law is the guest on this week’s edition of “Freethought Matters,” the weekly public affairs talk show of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Ellery Schempp, a distinguished retired scientist, recounts how, as… More »