Founder, Alabama Freethought Association The Cleveland family was recognized by FFRF with their very own Emperor Has No Clothes Award for their uncommon activism, generosity and outspoken freethought advocacy in …
Day: November 12, 2013
The name’s the same
William van Druten, principal founder of Lake Superior Freethinkers, a chapter of FFRF in Duluth, Minn., and his daughter recently visited Druten, a city in the eastern Netherlands. …
Elliott: Why not obey the law?
Staff Attorney Patrick Elliott ably represented FFRF at the South Carolina School Boards Association conference on school law Aug. 24 in Charleston. Elliott was a featured presenter and spoke to …
Schempp salutes McCollum at FFRF convention
Ellery Schempp (left), celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling in his favor in Abington v. Schempp, which removed bible recitations and the Lord’s Prayer from public schools, …
America’s toxic ‘Christian nation’ claim – By Anna Kelly
Anna received $1,000 for her essay. Like any debate that begins without clearly defined terms, the discussion of whether the U.S. is a Christian nation is erratic and nonsensical, a …
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Some founders were Christian; nation is not – Nicole White
Nicole received $2,000 for her essay. With America’s beginnings founded on the desire for religious freedom, it is a disconcerting irony that the majority of Americans today believe the U.S. …
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Freethought Radio – October 12, 2013
This week we celebrate “Freethought Day,” the anniversary of the October 12, 1692 end of the Salem Witch Trials, and the October 12, 1872 birthday of freethinking English composer Ralph …
Updated FFRF Statement on Coos Bay
Earlier this week, a person or persons identifying themselves as representing nonreligious veterans claimed responsibility for two explosions involving the cross memorial in Mingus Park and the Bay Area House …
New York ‘Sukkahs’ need to stop obstructing pedestrians
The Freedom From Religion Foundation opposes the illegal construction of temporary structures called sukkahs that are annually placed on Brooklyn, N.Y., public sidewalks each year for the Jewish holiday Sukkot. …
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