FFRF Lifetime Member Hank Kocol made his “Final Exit” on April 20, 2013, in Roseville, Calif. He is survived by his wife, Cleo, also a Lifetime Member, and sons, Henry …
Day: July 12, 2013
Letter brings Oklahoma commandments down
An Oklahoma school district learned a valuable lesson thanks to FFRF and its student complainant. On May 1, FFRF sent a letter to Muldrow Public Schools Superintendent Ron Flanagan asking …
School apologizes for ‘shaming’ assembly
A student at Chelsea High School in Chelsea, Ala., contacted FFRF about a school assembly speaker named Siran Stacy manipulating and shaming students. At an April 5 assembly, Stacy preached …
FFRF Legal Victories
School: No prayer, no graduation The Riverside School District Board in Lake City, Ark., voted May 6 to cancel its May 23 sixth-grade graduation ceremonies at two elementary schools after …
FFRF complaint removes commandments in Kentucky
Numerous framed postings of the Ten Commandments have come down in Breathitt County Schools in Jackson, Ky. Staff Attorney Patrick Elliott wrote a complaint letter April 5 to Larry Hammond, …
No preaching visitors allowed on New Hampshire school property (July 12, 2013)
Thanks to the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a woman who prayed aloud and promoted her religion daily to the students at a New Hampshire public high school will no longer …
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Atheists guaranteed cootie-free – Dawn Brittain
During the April 4 City Council meeting on the Vietnam War memorial in Mingus Park [in Coos Bay, Ore., a monument with a Latin cross about which FFRF has formally …
5 years later: My memorable atheist mom – Diana Read
The following memory of FFRF member Anne Hodge is reprinted with the author’s permission. It was first published on Daily Kos on April 7, 2013. My mother, Anne Garner Hodge, …
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‘Facing the Giants’ falls flat on its face – Sarah Eucalano
FFRF Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel spent part of a day recently stopping “Facing the Giants” from being shown to a captive audience of middle schoolers in a New Mexico school. …
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