Mercer County Schools took action in response to FFRF’s lawsuit A school district in West Virginia has suspended its “Bible in the Schools” classes next school year following FFRF’s lawsuit …
Day: June 13, 2017
FFRF confronts religious Ala. police department
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is charging that an Alabama police department’s intensely religious behavior is unlawful. The city of Wetumpka reportedly hosts a “CJ Deputy Summer Program” at the …
Wisconsin bill limits voucher accountability
A new Wisconsin bill will further hide the state’s voucher schools in a cloak of secrecy. On Friday, June 9, the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Education voted 4-3 to approve …
Paul J. Gaylor Memorial Student Activist Scholarship: By Peter Opitz
Jesus Lunch teaches wrong kind of division Peter Opitz received a $1,000 scholarship from FFRF endowed by Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor in memory of her father, Paul J. Gaylor, who …
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Why Millennial women are embracing atheism: By Kyle Fitzpatrick
This article first appeared on Popsugar.com on May 5, and is reprinted with permission. By Kyle Fitzpatrick Danielle Schacter never thought she would become an un-Christian. “I slowly became more …
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FFRF dissects Trump’s Liberty U speech
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is appalled at President Trump’s extreme pandering to evangelicals and his degrading treatment of nonbelieving Americans at his commencement speech at Liberty University on May …
Douglas Brassil leaves FFRF generous bequest
FFRF Member Douglas J. Brassil, 77, of Toledo, Ohio, died March 24, 2017, of acute lymphoma. Doug retired from Libbey-Owens-Ford in Toledo and was a lifetime resident of Maumee and …
Crankmail
Here is your June/July installment of some of the correspondence FFRF receives on the negative end of the spectrum. These come to you as received, unedited. Leave school kids alone: …
Secular Invocation: Ed Sweeney
Ed Sweeney Upper Arlington, Ohio, City Council May 8, 2017 FFRF Member Ed Sweeney gave the following secular invocation that he said was met with kind words from citizens, city …
