For our first three years of high school, we had often discussed how the Pledge of Allegiance made us uncomfortable. We had joked and made vague plans for how, when …
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Day: July 15, 2015
Anne Gaylor, FFRF principal founder, dies
1975, 2015 Anne Nicol Gaylor, 88, the principal founder of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, died just before midnight on Sunday, June 14, at a hospice in Fitchburg, Wis. …
FFRF criticizes sermonizing Fla. sheriff
Screenshot from First Baptist Church on the Mall website. The Freedom From Religion Foundation today sent a letter to Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd in protest of the sheriff delivering …
Christian film nixed at middle school (June 15, 2015)
Nevada’s Clark County School District will update its teacher handbook and reinstruct teachers not to promote their own sectarian beliefs to students. On May 21, a teacher at Victoria Fertitta …
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Virginia ‘release time’ punishment barred (April 15, 2015)
Nottoway, Va., Public Schools students who do not attend religious “release time” will no longer be forced to clean rooms or do extra homework. At least one student at Blackstone …
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Florida students support FFRF bible verse protest (April 15, 2015)
Gator Freethought and Humanists on Campus, two student groups at the University of Florida in Gainesville, sent a letter to university President W. Kent Fuchs in support of FFRF’s April …
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FFRF raises alarm in Green Bay over Walker voucher scheme
Watch FFRF ad. (Scroll down to view second ad.) Green Bay citizens are being urged to take alarm and vigorously oppose Governor Scott Walker’s proposal to open the floodgates on …
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FFRF criticizes Okla. AG’s school ‘religious freedom’ initiative
The Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter today to Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who is offering support to Oklahoma schools to “defend religious freedom”—which is what he calls making sure people can …
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Georgia teachers can sit out pledge (April 15, 2015)
The principal at Greenbrier Elementary School, Evans, Ga., will no longer make teachers participate in the Pledge of Allegiance to “set an example” for students. “The Supreme Court ruled over …
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