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The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “Freethought Matters” show this Sunday talks about the spectacular rise of the “Nones” — those of us with no religious affiliation. The interview guest Ryan Burge, a professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University, specializes in religious demographics. He’s… More »
Public school football baptisms are severe violations of public school neutrality toward religion, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is informing an Oklahoma school district. A number of student football players were baptized on Broken Arrow High School property last month. Brian Preston, student director at… More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is cheering the news that Texas’ draconian six-week abortion ban has been temporarily halted. However, the threat is far from over as religious extremists take steps to undo this latest move. On Wednesday, Oct. 6, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman… More »
The evangelical group Focus on the Family is yet again proselytizing public school students across the country by organizing Thursday’s “Bring Your Bible to School Day.” “Bring Your Bible to School Day” claims to be a student-led movement. In reality, students are not calling the… More »
The Roman Catholic Church has abused more than 300,000 French children since 1950, according to an explosive report that an independent commission has just released. The Freedom From Religion Foundation applauds the work of the investigators and once again urges the U.S. Department of Justice… More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is urging Union County Public Schools to cease starting its board meetings with Christian prayers. A concerned school district community member has informed FFRF that the Union County Board of Education allows various Christian clergy members to deliver a prayer… More »
Amid the perilous state of abortion rights in the United States, there is some cause for celebration. The Biden administration has reversed a draconian Trump-era policy that prevented major reproductive health organizations from receiving federal funds for family planning. Known as the domestic gag rule,… More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has put up side-by-side billboards in Houston urging churchgoers, including Joel Osteen followers, to stay home. The 14-by-48-foot bulletins, featuring a stained-glass window motif, offer advice to “Sleep in on Sunday” and “Enjoy life now — there is no afterlife”… More »
The Supreme Court began its fall term two days after tens of thousands of citizens marched to signal to the court their support for abortion rights, and as a new poll reveals plummeting public approval of the institution after it failed to block a clearly… More »
The nonbelieving community in Central Florida is asking Polk County commissioners to finally be civil and considerate toward freethinkers in their monthly meeting tomorrow. Sarah Ray, director of Atheist Community of Polk County, was given the opportunity in May to deliver an invocation before the… More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling on the North Carolina lieutenant governor to step down over his intemperate, bigoted, unpatriotic and un-American remarks. This past weekend at the North Carolina Faith & Freedom Coalition’s “Salt & Light Conference,” Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson made several… More »
Get rid of your Faith Advisory Council, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is recommending to an Ohio school district. Poland Local Schools has initiated a Faith Advisory Council and advertised this council on the school website on a page titled “September 2021 Faith Advisory Council Newsletter.”… More »
The U.S. Supreme Court today continued an ominous trend in agreeing to take an appeal regarding a demand that a Christian flag be flown over Boston City Hall. The high court announced that it will hear the case, Shurtleff v. City of Boston, which will… More »
One of the nation’s foremost writers, freethinkers and feminists is the guest on the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “Freethought Matters” TV show this Sunday. Katha Pollitt has been writing a National Magazine Award-winning column for The Nation since 1995. She’s the author of several books,… More »
A national association of freethinkers is asking New York Governor Kathy Hochul to stop treating her “bully pulpit” like an actual church pulpit and tone down the religious rhetoric over Covid-19 vaccinations. In Hochul’s “sermon” on Sunday at the Christian Cultural Center, she cited… More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is renewing its urgent request to Madison and Dane County authorities to require proof of fully vaccinated status to engage in indoor dining, bars, nightclubs, gyms, theaters and other such events. In a follow-up to its August 13 letter to… More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a state/church watchdog based in Madison, Wis., has written to its home school district thanking it for requiring employees to be vaccinated, but warning that a religious exemption is counterproductive. The association of freethinkers now numbering over 35,000 nationwide is also… More »
Expand and rebalance the federal judiciary, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is appealing to the U.S. Senate. The Senate is holding a hearing tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 29, about the infamously anti-abortion Texas law, which the Supreme Court failed to enjoin, and the Supreme Court’s recent… More »
The blatant misuse of police powers and lack of secularism in a California police department must end, asserts the Freedom From Religion Foundation. A concerned local resident has informed the state/church watchdog that the Covina Police Department provides counseling or emotional support via a chaplaincy… More »
A preacher’s blatant proselytizing at a public high school needs to be halted at once, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is urging a West Virginia school district. A concerned Hardy County Schools parent has reported to FFRF that students were encouraged to attend a… More »