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 …
Day: February 18, 2015
‘Reformed’ Catholic tells off pope
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 …
Meet a civil libertarian member: Matthew Stark
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, …
States’ godly preambles are relics of another time by James A. Haught
By James A. Haught Did you know that nearly all 50 states have religious preambles affixed to their state constitutions, in brazen violation of the First Amendment’s decree that government …
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No more staff-led prayer at Kan. school (Dec. 18, 2014)
After the Freedom From Religion Foundation lodged a complaint, staff at the Haskins Learning Center in Pratt Unified School District will not lead students in prayer. FFRF received a report …
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FFRF objects to Va. professor’s promotion of Islam in classroom
A Virginia professor’s “Introduction to Islam” course crosses the line from objective religious teaching to proselytization, says the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The national organization of atheists and agnostics, based …
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Cop emails go secular (November 18, 2014)
A University of Colorado police officer at the Colorado Springs campus removed a religious email signature after Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel’s Sept. 25 complaint letter to the university. “For he …
Freethought Radio – October 18, 2014
Life Beyond Belief. After state/church news in South Dakota, Georgia, Ohio, and Oklahoma, we hear from science-fiction writer Ursula K. LeGuin, and listen to part of Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Peace …
Bart Erhman
Bart Ehrman, FFRF’s newest recipient of its Emperor Has No Clothes Award, is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. …
