FFRF Staff Attorney Stephanie Schmitt has written three letters of complaint about posting of religious material in the office of Tax Commissioner Susan Kersey in Jeff Davis County in Hazlehurst, …
Day: November 29, 2012
Credits for release time OK’d by court
The 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals refused to accept a petition for en banc review filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, after a three-judge panel approved academic credit …
Chick-fil-A drops church discount
A Chick-fil-A restaurant in Chapel Hill, N.C., dropped a church discount scheduled for each Monday in June after an FFRF member complained. George White noticed an online calendar promoting Church …
FFRF asks what’s the deal with religious seals
An FFRF complaint over the depiction of a chapel with a cross atop it on the new city seal in Steubenville, Ohio, initially had the city agreeing to change the …
Appleman interviewed by Bill Moyers
FFRF After-Life Member Philip Appleman, distinguished poet, scholar and freethinker, appeared on “Bill Moyers Journal” on July 8 on PBS. The powerful interview and transcript is online at billmoyers.com/segment/the-poetry-of-philip-appleman/. There …
‘Nones’ gain as more drop religious habits
America’s “Nones” — the nonreligious — are at an all-time high, now comprising nearly one in five Americans (19%), according to a new study by the Pew Center for the …
FFRF, ACLU prevail in Giles County, Va.
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Urbanski accepted a settlement July 3 and ended the lawsuit between a Giles County, Va., parent and student and the Giles County School Board. Attorneys …
Meet a Member: Patricia Jones
Name: Patricia Jones. Where I live: I live on a plateau in rural middle Tennessee. Where I was born: I come from Michigan and never thought I’d be living in …
The ‘God particle’: One less place to hide – Dan Barker
I guess now that the “God particle” has been discovered -— or very nearly confirmed by a majority of physicists — I need to decide what church to join. We …
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