Douglas Marshall will receive a Freethinker of the Year Award as the plaintiff in FFRF’s recent federal court victory, forcing the town of Warren, Mich., to let him put up …
Day: November 13, 2015
Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin received FFRF’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award at our 2015 National Convention. She has been living under a death fatwa for blasphemy by Bangladesh imams since 1993. She …
Rita Swan – Lifetime Achievement Award
Rita Swan received a Lifetime Achievement Award. Swan, who has a Ph.D., speaks and writes about child abuse and neglect related to religious or cultural practices. After losing their son …
Thomas Sheedy – Richard and Beverly Hermsen Student Activist Award
Thomas Sheedy, 17, will receive FFRF’s Richard and Beverly Hermsen Student Activist Award of $5,000. Thomas is a senior at Ward Meville High School, East Setauket, N.Y. He is founder …
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Anita Weier
Anita Weier was be honored as Freethought Heroine for introducing a historic ordinance to make “nonreligion” a protected class in Madison, Wis. Her first of its kind ordinance passed with …
Sharing the crank mail
Was it too early to crank up our annual War on Christmas? Definitely, wrote quite a few of our correspondents, their comments printed as received. Freedom: Your religion is of …
Honorable mention: Diversity discouraged in religious communities by Jazmyn Glause
Diversity discouraged in religious communities FFRF awarded Jazmyn $200. By Jazmyn Glause As a minority and nonbeliever in a small town in rural Wisconsin, I feel like others are constantly …
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Honorable mention: Staying strong in a world of believers by Taressa Straughter
Staying strong in a world of believers FFRF awarded Taressa $200. By Taressa Straughter “What? You’re an atheist? Why?” Those are the questions that I always hear when I tell …
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Honorable mention: Enlightenment from the horrors of the bible by Telexius Wilson
Enlightenment from the horrors of the bible FFRF awarded Telexius $200. By Telexius Wilson It started when I was in elementary school and my mom and I went to a …
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