After FFRF stepped in, Alabama’s Blount County Schools has stopped having students read a bible verse over the PA each morning. “A daily bible reading, even by a student, violates …
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Anita Weier was be honored as Freethought Heroine for introducing a historic ordinance to make “nonreligion” a protected class in Madison, Wis. Her first of its kind ordinance passed with …
Thomas Sheedy, 17, will receive FFRF’s Richard and Beverly Hermsen Student Activist Award of $5,000. Thomas is a senior at Ward Meville High School, East Setauket, N.Y. He is founder …
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Rita Swan received a Lifetime Achievement Award. Swan, who has a Ph.D., speaks and writes about child abuse and neglect related to religious or cultural practices. After losing their son …
Ron Reagan, the “unabashed atheist, not afraid of burning in hell,” who kindly recorded a recent much-censored TV commercial for FFRF, is the liberal son of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. …
Taslima Nasrin received FFRF’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award at our 2015 National Convention. She has been living under a death fatwa for blasphemy by Bangladesh imams since 1993. She …
Douglas Marshall will receive a Freethinker of the Year Award as the plaintiff in FFRF’s recent federal court victory, forcing the town of Warren, Mich., to let him put up …
Steven Hewett will be honored with FFRF’s Atheist in Foxhole Award. The former police officer and Afghanistan war veteran returned home with a Combat Action Badge and Bronze Star, only …
Senator Ernie Chambers, the longest serving state senator in Nebraska, will receive the Emperor Has No Clothes Award. He challenged his legislature’s payment to ministers to open sessions in Marsh …
