The Triangle Freethought Society, FFRF’s chapter in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., co-hosted a Richard Dawkins meet and greet with the Duke University Secular Alliance on Oct. 2. “About 60 of us met …
Day: December 17, 2010
Convention ends on high note
Melody Moore, an opera singer who lives in San Francisco, dropped by Nov. 1 to say hello at Freethought Hall in Madison, Wis. Moore was a 1998 recipient of a …
FFRF Colorado Day of Prayer decision appealed
The Freedom From Religion Foundation and four of its more than 400 Colorado members sued Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. in state court in November 2008 for officially proclaiming May 1, …
FFRF chosen to memorialize Professor C. Edwin Baker
The Freedom From Religion Foundation received a $5,000 bequest in October in memory of C. Edwin Baker. While all such remembrances and bequests are touching, hugely appreciated and significant, there’s …
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They said what??
We do have a policy that avowed gays and atheists are not allowed to be a registered leader or member of Boy Scouts of America. It’s a longstanding policy. Pat …
FFRF membership survey: Who we are
The Freedom From Religion Foundation surveyed its 15,500 members in late spring, with nearly 4,000 members participating. Here’s what we found: The typical member is a highly educated, white, married …
FFRF Legal Victories
School halts classroom bible distributions Staff Attorney Patrick Elliott sent a letter Oct. 19 to Perkins-Tryon Public Schools (Perkins, Okla.) to object to Gideons International distributing bibles in classrooms to …
Amicus briefs filed in FFRF’s favor
Oral arguments in FFRF v. Barack Obama will take place Dec. 2 before the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago. In October, several groups submitted …
It Pays to Complain: November 2010
‘Our Father,’ who art on hold FFRF Staff Attorney Patrick Elliott wrote the Greenwood Township supervisors in Atlantic, Pa., in September about inappropriately opening meetings with sectarian prayer and listing …
