A Colorado university will no longer distribute bibles to nursing school graduates as part of their “pinning” ceremony after the Freedom From Religion Foundation and another group sent letters of …
Day: November 18, 2015
House idiocy puts zealotry above women’s lives
By Annie Laurie GaylorCo-PresidentFreedom From Religion Foundation Today’s 241-187 vote along party lines by the U.S. House to strip Planned Parenthood of $500 million in federal family planning funds for …
Judge orders Walker administration to produce open records (August 18, 2015)
The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit Dec. 17, 2014 in Dane County Circuit Court, Wis., charging that Wisconsin open records law was violated by Theodore Nickel of the …
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Freethought Radio — July 18, 2015
After reporting on an FFRF state/church victory removing Christian crosses from a Texas county building, we hear “Blood Brothers,” the song Dan Barker wrote right after leaving the ministry. What …
Teacher’s bible quotes erased in class (June 18, 2015)
Pender County Schools in North Carolina will put a stop to the classroom display of bible quotes. A Topsail Middle School teacher in Hampstead wrote bible quotes on a dry-erase …
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Freethought Radio — April 18, 2015
Find out why the pious Attorney General of Oklahoma is on the warpath against FFRF, why vouchers – ouch – hurt our public schools, plus other recent FFRF activism, then …
FFRF ends prayer at Ohio athletics (March 18, 2015)
The St. Clairsville High School spring sports banquet in St. Clairsville, Ohio, did not include prayer, unlike its fall banquet, thanks to a Jan. 5 complaint letter from Staff Attorney …
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Hand soap Jesus off school bottles (Feb. 18, 2015)
Bennett Elementary School in McKinney, Texas, removed hand sanitizer bottles that displayed the Lord’s Prayer and the logo of a church. “Religion is a divisive force in public schools,” wrote …
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Meet a member: James Downard
Name: James Downard. Where I live: Spokane, Wash. Where and when I was born: Spokane, Sept. 22, 1952. Family: Two sisters and a brother still living, plenty of nieces and …