Below is the testimony today of Staff Attorney Patrick Elliott: Wisconsin Assembly Bill 244 would create a religious and exclusionary Wisconsin license plate. Elected officials should not use their government …
Day: September 24, 2013
FFRF stops school-sponsored prayer group at Tennessee elementary (September 24)
The Freedom From Religion Foundation stopped a prayer group co-sponsored by a Baptist church and school officials that walked through the hallways of Hardy Elementary School in Chattanooga, Tenn. This …
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Freethought Radio – August 24, 2013
We celebrate the 93rd anniversary of Women’s Equality Day and the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. We talk about FFRF’s state/church activism, including this …
FFRF seeks to stop mayor’s proselytizing
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is asking a Kentucky mayor to quit using her civic ‘bully pulpit’ as an actual pulpit. Mayor Rita Stephens of Hawesville, Ky., writes a column …
FFRF runs ad challenging BSA ban on atheists
The Freedom From Religion Foundation ran a prominent quarter-page ad in yesterday’s New York Times Sunday Review section, challenging Boy Scouts of America’s continuing exclusion of nonreligious boys. “We’re …
FFRF banner in Wilkes-Barre: Nothing Fails Like Prayer
Wilkes-Barre student Justin Vacula, in conjunction with the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has just arranged placement of a colorful banner saying “Nothing Fails Like Prayer” in Public Square in downtown …
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Boy Scouts of America still practices discrimination
Statement by Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker FFRF Co-Presidents We congratulate Boy Scouts of America for lifting its longtime, hurtful ban on gays being members. BSA has taken a …
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Sailors forced to hear shipboard prayer
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has renewed its objections to constitutional violations occurring aboard U.S. Navy ships. In a May 20 letter to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, FFRF …
Ohio Prayer Breakfast breaks ties with city government (April 24, 2013)
Thanks to the Freedom From Religion Foundation, the city of Columbus, Ohio, will no longer promote, finance or plan an annual prayer breakfast.Columbus’ Mayor Michael Coleman and a city office …
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