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"Do Ask. Don't Hire?" The Salvation Army's proposed "deal" with the Bush Administration, exposed by the Washington Post yesterday, should be ringing alarm bells--not donation bells--according to the Freedom From Religion Foundation, whose federal lawsuit will be the first to be adjudicated in the nation More »
Direct Subsidy to Parochial Schools Unconstitutional A 3-judge panel for the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled on Friday, April 27, in favor of a lawsuit by the Freedom From Religion Foundation challenging direct subsidy to religious schools. The appeals court upheld More »
Scopes II? A lawsuit to halt pervasive illegal religious practices in public schools in Rhea County, Tennessee was filed in the courtroom of Chief Judge Edgar, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, on Thursday, April 26 by the Freedom From Religion More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has written President George W. Bush pointing out the Christian origins of the anti-Semitism that led to the Holocaust, in response to Bush's recent remarks implying atheism was responsible for the Holocaust. More »
Governor Advised: "It's Unconstitutional" The Freedom From Religion Foundation sent the following letter to the Governor of Alabama regarding a proposal to amend the Alabama State Constitution to permit Ten Commandments to be posted in public buildings. The amendment, Senate Bill More »
Taxpayers Subsidize Proselytizing of Quake Victims? A national watchdog organization working to keep church and state separate has called on the US Agency for International Development to investigate allegations that a federally funded quake relief project in El Salvador is overtly proselytizing. According to an expose More »
In Honor of International Women's Day (March 8) and Women's History Month The untold story of the feminist movement is that it was sparked by women without superstition, by religious nonconformists, freethinkers, atheists, agnostics, and skeptics. Indeed, any woman before the late 19th century who More »
Missouri Supreme Court Doublespeak It was a miscarriage of justice when the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously on February 13 to uphold the constitutionality of a statute requiring a So help me God" oath on a tax form. The Freedom From Religion Foundation and our Missouri More »
Bush-Whacking the Separation of Church and State The following statement was released by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Madison, Wis.-based national association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics) working to protect the constitutional More »
Jesus Is NOT "King" of Our Country The Freedom From Religion Foundation, representing 4,000 atheist and agnostic members throughout the nation, as well as the views of some 29 million Americans who are not religious, is calling upon the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose the More »
Jesus Is NOT "King" of Our Country The Freedom From Religion Foundation, representing 4,000 atheist and agnostic members throughout the nation, as well as the views of some 29 million Americans who are not religious, is calling upon the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose the More »
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is putting pressure on Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist to forswear religion when he presides at George W. Bush's presidential oath-taking. The Madison, Wis.-based watchdog group earlier wrote Bush asking that he not make religious ad libs to the precise More »
A Different Kind of December Tradition A winter solstice message from the Freedom From Religion Foundation was erected today at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, for the fifth year in a row. The Madison-based Foundation, a national watchdog group for state/church separation, obtained a permit More »
Unconventional Convention--St. Paul, Sept. 15-17, 2000 For immediate release The 23rd annual national convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation will gather at the St. Paul Radisson Inn on the weekend of Sept. 15-17, 2000. The convention's diverse speakers include: a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, an award-winning More »
Watchdog Group Files Constitutional Challenge to Public Funding of Pervasively Sectarian, "Faith-Based" Welfare Reform Program The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based national organization working to defend separation of church and state, filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging public funding of an upstart More »
Wouldn't She Be Happier Working At a Christian College? The Freedom From Religion Foundation is charging officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with stonewalling the Foundation's request to investigate what may be an illegal religion question posed to prospective UW Women's basketball recruits. Among the facts More »
Foundation Protests Troubling Violation Divorcing parents in Washington County, Wisconsin, are being ordered by the Court Commissioner to take a seminar conducted by Catholic Charities, and to pay a $25 fee to the Catholic organization. This abuse of state/church separation is being protested by the Wisconsin-based More »
Scopes II? On behalf of a family in Dayton, Tennessee, the national Freedom From Religion Foundation is protesting pervasive religious influence in the town's public schools, including: Bible study in the classroom, conducted during school hours by an outside group of fundamentalist More »
Sue Porter Superintendent, Rhea County Schools 250 California Ave. Dayton TN 37321 Dear Superintendent Porter, We are writing to you on behalf of a family which has children in the Rhea County School system, and on behalf of members of our organization who live in your area who honor More »
Letter to Lieberman U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman c/o Gore 2000 601 Mainstream Dr Nashville TN 37228 Fax (615)340-3295 Phone (615)340-2000 Re: Remarks at Fellowship Chapel, Detroit, Aug. 27, 2000 Dear Senator Lieberman: You are wrong to claim "that the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion." Our More »