View Tulsa billboards View Columbus billboards Tulsa, Okla., and Columbus, Ohio, are the third and fourth locations for FFRF’s national “Out of the Closet” billboard campaign to introduce local nonbelievers …
Day: August 12, 2011
Sand Springs City Council: ‘First Amendment does not apply to us’
Background Sand Springs, Okla., a city near Tulsa, has become embroiled in a familiar state/church controversy — a resident has asked the city council to stop praying on government time, …
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Fowler receives FFRF award for stellar student activism – Damon Fowler
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has inaugurated two annual $1,000 student activist awards, one in memory of Catherine Fahringer, the other endowed by a generous West Coast couple. Although FFRF …
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Wordplay: Onward, Christian Pollsters! Kate Musgrave
Archbishop of Can’tremarry: The English prelate who categorically forbids royal remarriages and then sits back and enjoys watching the breakdown of practically everyone else’s unions. Belt with a bible: To …
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Meet a legal intern: Kristen Fox
Name: Kristen Fox. When I was born: In 1982, after which I spent my early childhood in the tiny rural town of Marshall in the Ozark region of Arkansas before …
Meet one very nonbiblical Adam: Adam Lee
Name: Adam Lee. Where I live: New York City. Where and when I was born: New York City, March 13, 1982. Family: A mother, a father and a younger brother, …
Religion as the root of sexism – Barbara G. Walker
The central premise of Christianity is that human beings are to be allowed into heaven, only because God demanded, and got, a blood sacrifice of his allegedly beloved son, to …
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Cities that pray together fare no better – Darrell Barker
At 6 p.m. sharp on Tuesday, April 26, with Alabamans comfortably seated for the Tuscaloosa City Council meeting, the mayor asked everyone to rise for the “Call to Order” prayer: …
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Meet a twice-baptized member: Bobbie Howard
Name: Bobbie Howard. Where I live: Scottsdale, Ariz., (but I’m not one of those anti-everybody-who-isn’t-a-WASP wackos). Where and when I was born: New Haven, Conn., 1942. My parents lived in …
