FFRF sent an Action Alert to members April 17 asking them to set AARP magazine straight about its February/March article entitled “The Paradox of Prayer: A Pilgrimage.” Commenting on the …
Day: May 20, 2015
Activist Ahlquist: Wag more, bark less by Jessica Ahlquist
Sam Erickson, FFRF student intern: Jessica Ahlquist has already done more to protect state/church separation than many of us do in a lifetime. When she was 17, a judge ruled …
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Unique art finds home in new FFRF library: The evolution of ‘Mr. Darwin’
“Mr. Darwin,” the lifelike creation of talented artist Csam Wheatley, Louisville, Ky., now graces the Joel B. Landon and Wanda Y. Beers Freethought Library on the third floor of Freethought …
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Legal victories shore up wall of separation
FFRF gets sexist posters removed Lincoln High School in Manitowoc, Wis., took down sexist prom posters sponsored by a Catholic health care provider and a “crisis” pregnancy center after FFRF …
What I learned fighting public school bible distributions by Andrew Seidel
FFRF Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel’s column below was first published May 5 by Hemant Mehta’s Friendly Atheist as a guest post. By Andrew Seidel When bibles were distributed in Orange County, …
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‘Nones’ increasing, Pew poll shows
The Associated Press reported May 12 on a 2014 Pew Research Center poll that says 56 million Americans are religiously unaffiliated. Between 2007 and 2014, the number of Americans who …
It paid to complain
The Michigan Association of Civil Rights Activists (MACRA), founded by Mitch Kahle and Holly Huber, FFRF Life Members, had another success in April when a substitute teacher at Hart High …
Freethought ‘church’ protests bank’s bias
Nevada Bacon Prophet John Whiteside led an April protest by secular groups, including Whiteside’s United Church of Bacon, taking Wells Fargo Bank to task for refusing to notarize a church document. …
38th annual national convention, Oct. 9-11, Madison, Wis.: Atheist Reagan also not afraid to revel in Madison
Ron Reagan, the “unabashed atheist, not afraid of burning in hell” who recorded FFRF’s much-censored TV ad, will keynote its 38th national convention at Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center …
