We were proud of the fact that in December 1976, we even inspired a group of 1,000 fundamentalists and Catholics to pray for us! <-Previous Next -> …
Day: August 21, 2019
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I, as part of the early group, had stopped prayers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison graduations, ending a 122-year abuse. Anne as plaintiff had already filed her first successful lawsuit. …
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Anne’s complaints stopped public school sponsorship and financing of the annual nativity pageant at the Wisconsin capitol. <-Previous Next -> …
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In 1978, Anne was asked to go national with the Freedom From Religion Foundation, in part because of the Foundation’s early major successes: Anne had stopped prayers in public schools …
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We got terrific press coverage on this and virtually every other early action, due to my mother’s inspired press releases and pithy remarks. She was doing “sound bites” before there …
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“Whenever I hear people suggest that if there were no ‘religion,’ and no fear of God’s wrath, there would be no morality, I wish they could meet Anne Gaylor, her …
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Anne Treseder notes: “Soon after I moved back to San Francisco, I received a letter from Anne. She told me that after much soul-searching she had concluded that a woman’s …
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“We debated the issue on radio & TV every chance we could. Anne was a genius at requesting ‘equal time’ and getting us ‘gigs.’ We served together on the NARAL …
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“In those early days, those of us in the U.S. who were campaigning for safe, legal abortion knew or knew of, each other–there weren’t that many of us! “I functioned …
