FFRF’s TV ad featuring Ron Reagan was censored by the major news networks. After celebrating the birthday of freethinking botanist Luther Burbank and hearing “Bread & Roses” in honor of …
Day: March 7, 2015
Freethought Radio — February 7, 2015
After commenting on religious violence around the globe, we talk with Rachel Harger about the upcoming Texas Secular Convention in Austin. We hear actor/novelist Stephen Fry denounce the “wicked” god …
Nothing fails like a National Prayer Breakfast
Statement by Dan BarkerCo-PresidentFreedom From Religion Foundation The reactions of outrage to President Barack Obama’s remarks at the so-called National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Thursday show once again that …
Death with dignity quest personal for Barbara Mancini
Lisa Strand, FFRF operations director, introduced speaker Barbara Mancini on October 24, 2014, at FFRF’s national conference in Los Angeles: How many of you caught our next speaker on “60 …
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College essay contest honorable mentions
FFRF awarded each recipient $200. Essays were edited for space. Intellectual freedom By Blake Allen For 12 years, I believed everything I was taught as a young Catholic. I suppose …
Florida secular invocation irks commissioners
Four elected officials in Lake Worth, Fla., walked out in protest Dec. 2 before atheist Preston Smith, 34, started his invocation to open the city commission meeing. Commissioner Christopher McVoy …
Meet a juggling member: Robert McClain
Name: Robert McClain. Where I live: Brunswick, Ohio. Where and when I was born: Johnstown, Pa., 1959. Family: Pamela, my wife, and sons, Sean, 19, and Corvus, 16. Education: Some …
FFRF ‘no gods’ sign in Rhode Island statehouse
FFRF member and Rhode Island freethought activist Debbie Flitman (above left), assisted by FFRF member Tony Houston, for the second year in a row erected FFRF’s “no gods” winter solstice …
No speech, free or paid, for FFRF in Pitman, N.J.
FFRF was denied space by Clear Channel Outdoor to place light-hearted billboards promoting freethought in Pitman, N.J., after being censored by Pitman city officials. Although FFRF had a contract with …
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