Day: February 18, 2015

Name: Matthew Stark. When and where I was born: New York City, Jan. 27, 1930. I lived in New York until I went to school at Ohio University in Athens, …

More » from Meet a civil libertarian member: Matthew Stark

Wisconsin FFRF member Ken Proulx, who is 90, notes, “The pope was saying it’s wrong to kill in the name of God. Why, the Catholic Church got where it is …

More » from ‘Reformed’ Catholic tells off pope

FFRF urged members to get involved with state/church issues in their areas by contacting local officials to put forth the secular viewpoint: • The Clark County Board of County Councilors …

More » from Recent FFRF Action Alerts

An Ohio complainant writes to recount how it paid to complain about a religious display encountered Dec. 4 at the Louis Stokes Veterans Hospital in Cleveland: “I am a veteran …

More » from It Pays to Complain: January 2015

FFRF and its Metropolitan Chicago chapter put up 14 freethought billboards in Chicagoland in December and January, with six more scheduled to be placed in March. Eleven went up in …

More » from Freethought billboards blanket Chicago area

The National Labor Relations Board ruled against Pacific Lutheran University’s claim that it’s exempt as a religious institution from NLRB jurisdiction. The decision allows contingent faculty (non-tenure track) to unionize …

More » from NLRB rules against Lutheran college

By Jennifer Wilson My parents raised me with a profound respect for science but not with religion. My physicist taught me that there are certain laws of nature that the …

More » from Unleashing the atheist within by Jennifer Wilson

A Religious Right scheme to “plant a church in every school” was one of the topics covered in a Jan. 31 segment of MSNBC-TV’s “Melissa Harris-Perry Show,” featuring FFRF Co-President …

More » from Churches in schools debated on MSNBC