Under terms of a lawsuit settlement March 20, child care agencies that contract with the state of Kentucky will be forbidden to discriminate against children based on religion or to …
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Secular students succeed at Ripon
Ripon College’s Secular Student Alliance chapter in Ripon, Wis., has successfully petitioned the administration to confine religious speech and prayers to the school’s optional baccalaureate ceremony. No more prayers will …
Evolution-bashing schools head backs off
An Oklahoma school district superintendent instructed teachers not to promote religion in classrooms after correspondence with the Freedom From Religion Foundation. A concerned family in the Wynnewood Public Schools District …
FFRF action gets polls moved from church
With the help of activist member Kurt Bocksenbaum, FFRF has gotten a polling place in Brown Deer, Wis. moved from St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church to a new community center. …
Sonnet 18 ½
Who, me? Compare you to a summer’s day? Heck, no, it’s hot and sweaty here — and hey, The days are getting shorter anyway. Summer can’t be counted on to …
Newdow, FFRF challenge ‘In God We Trust’
The Freedom From Religion Foundation and 19 other plaintiffs are suing the U.S. Treasury for stamping “In God We Trust” on currency in defiance of the godless and entirely secular …
Survey: 20% in U.S. say ‘no religion’
American religious affiliation is at its lowest point since tracking started in the 1930s, according to analysis of new survey data by researchers from the University of California-Berkeley and Duke …
State rep attacks FFRF suit, plaintiff rights
Pennsylvania state Rep. Tim Krieger has introduced a bill in the General Assembly directly in response to current litigation by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which would have a chilling …
Ohio ACLU, FFRF rebuff school’s Jesus ‘switcheroo’
A month after the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the ACLU of Ohio sued the Jackson City School District over a portrait of Jesus in a middle school, the district …
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