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 …
Day: November 13, 2015
Ron Reagan – Unabashed Atheist Award
Ron Reagan, the “unabashed atheist, not afraid of burning in hell,” who kindly recorded a recent much-censored TV commercial for FFRF, is the liberal son of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. …
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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Honorable mention: Education can lift veil of religious ignorance by Hannah Dolan
Education can lift veil of religious ignorance FFRF awarded Hannah $200. By Hannah Dolan I have sinned. I have no chance of salvation. I am going to hell. Or so …
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