Georgia Southern University ordered a proselytizing professor to stop promoting religion in his classroom after a complaint by the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science prompted …
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FFRF sues Walker administration over open records violation
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed its first lawsuit over a violation of open records law, after a track record of taking more than 60 Establishment Clause lawsuits. In a suit …
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FFRF puts clamps on coach prayer (November 17, 2014)
Long Beach High School in Long Beach, Miss., has ended two school-sponsored prayer rituals at football games. Staff Attorney Sam Grover wrote the district Sept. 26. Traditionally, a student led …
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FFRF halts coach prayer (November 17, 2014)
A coach in the Wimberley Independent School District in Texas will no longer pray with students or endorse students’ prayers. Staff Attorney Sam Grover wrote Wimberley’s superintendent Sept. 25, detailing …
FFRF complaint stops coach prayer (November 17, 2014)
FFRF originally contacted Middletown City Schools in Ohio last spring about high school football coach Chris Wells leading students in prayer and inviting them to his church. The district assured …
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FFRF answers Ala. coach’s prayers with complaint (Nov. 17, 2014)
Anniston High School’s football coach will no longer organize and lead his team in prayers after receiving a letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. A local news report noted …
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Religious brochures removed in Tennessee (November 17, 2014)
FFRF’s complaint letter prompted prompted the Blount County Sheriff’s Office in Maryville, Tenn., to remove a box of religious brochures from the waiting room.The brochures depicted Jesus, included a prayer …
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FFRF ensures Civil Rights Act compliance at Mizzou (Oct. 17, 2014)
The University of Missouri agreed that a church bulletin discount offered as part of a volleyball ticket promotion was inappropriate, after receiving an Oct. 16 letter of complaint from the …
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FFRF ends coach prayer at Del. high school (Oct. 17, 2014)
Football coaches at Cape Henlopen High School in Lewes, Del., will no longer lead their players in prayer or participate in students’ prayers, after receiving a letter from the Freedom …
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