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 …
Day: December 17, 2010
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 …
State-church litigant stood with FFRF
Steve Van Zandt, now an Idaho resident, was the principal plaintiff in Van Zandt v. Thompson, in which he and FFRF sued Illinois Gov. James Thompson for implementing a state …
The palest shade of pink
I was raised by a Roman Catholic mother and a father who believed (and still does, I think) in God, but always refused to step inside a church. They were …
Florida district halts faculty involvement in student religious activities
Faculty and staff at Clay County Schools [Green Cove Springs, Fla.] were instructed to refrain from participation in student-initiated religious activities, and prohibited from promoting religion in their official capacities …
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The Indiana student who stopped school prayer: Eric J. Workman
Eric Workman, who addressed FFRF’s 33rd national convention in Madison, Wis., on Oct. 30, writes: “I had an amazing, exceptional experience at this convention that far surpasses that of any …
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Football prayers are offensive lines for nonbelievers: Bill Dunn
SODDY-DAISY, Tenn. — Before the excited cheerleaders shook their pompoms and the quarterback put his hands under center, the loudspeaker blared a prayer. Then it was like, dude, in Jesus’ …
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