The Freedom From Religion Foundation has asked the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn a federal district court decision approving a shrine to Jesus on public land near …
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Day: April 15, 2014
Church intervenes in FFRF pulpit politicking suit
A court decision allowing an obscure Milwaukee-area church to intervene in FFRF’s nationally significant lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over church politicking has placed the litigation “on the front …
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FFRF ousts bibles at 2nd public university hotel
Building on its success removing bibles from University of Wisconsin hotel rooms in December in Madison, the Freedom From Religion Foundation scored another victory for secularism on an Iowa public …
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Meet an Activist Member: Luther G. Weeks
Name: Luther G. Weeks. (The “G” stands for Gaylord, long ago translated from the French “Gaillard.” Who knows if a descendant of some common ancestors dropped the “d.”) Where I …
Meet FFRF’s 20,000 th Member: Ken Knighton
Name: Ken Knighton. Where I live: Bountiful, Utah. Where and when I was born: Clovis, N.M., 1952, when my father was in the Air Force. Family: I’m the oldest of …
Vermont native lauds state’s top spot on ‘infidel index’ by Sam Grover
Is state pride considered a deadly sin? If so, I’m going to burn for it. I became very proud of my home state of Vermont recently when I read the …
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Memorializing Clifford Donald Richards, 1943–2014 by Annie Laurie Gaylor
I received a heartbreaking letter Dec. 20 from Cliff Richards, a member of FFRF from Washington state, informing me that he was naming FFRF as a beneficiary on his Fidelity …
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The truth about funerals: Follow the money by Barbara G. Walker
When you think about it, there is nothing really logical or necessary about people gathering together after a death, to talk about the deceased, witness the mourning, or even peer …
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FFRF halts inappropriate Thanksgiving program; religious icons, bibles removed from elementary school (April 15, 2014)
Oakwood Elementary School in Peoria, Ariz., will no longer allow religious icons, bibles and proselytizing “gifts.” This is not the first violation from Peoria School District that FFRF has acted …
