FFRF member Dan Courtney, for his historic invocation before the town board in Greece, N.Y., site of the prayer litigation resulting in this year’s unfortunate Supreme Court decision. …
Day: October 30, 2014
Amanda Novotny
Amanda Novotny is president of Siouxland Freethinkers, East River media representative for the South Dakota Coalition of Reason and treasurer of the Brookings Freethinkers. She became an active, vocal atheist …
Susan Galloway & Linda Stephens
“The View from Under the Bus” SUSAN GALLOWAY is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has worked most of her career in long-term care, specifically with people …
Sean Carroll
SEAN CARROLL is a theoretical physicist with the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He earned his undergraduate degree from Villanova University and his P.D in Astrophysics from …
Donald C. Johanson
DONALD C. JOHANSON is an internationally known paleoanthropologist who discovered the fossil of a female hominid australopithecine known as “Lucy” in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974. He …
Erwin Chemerinsky – Champion of the First Amendment Award
“The Vanishing Wall Separating Church and State” ERWIN CHEMERINSKY is the founding dean of the University of California-Irvine School of Law and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, with a …
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FFRF raises multiple constitutional issues in Okla. school district
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national state/church watchdog, has contacted Skiatook Public Schools, Okla., to protest several state/church violations reported by a district family. Among the allegations: District schools …
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Sixth place (tie): Michael Hakeem Memorial College Essay Contest by Anvita Patwardhan
Refusing to shut up and believe Anvita received $400 for her essay. By Anvita Patwardhan One day in class as we were discussing the afterlife and salvation, I asked my …
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Sixth place (tie): Michael Hakeem Memorial College Essay Contest by Aaron McLaughlin
Witnessing door to door no more Aaron received $400 for his essay. By Aaron McLaughlin Acts 17:11, in which the inhabitants of Berea are praised for examining the evidence before …
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