Name: Lisa Anne Auerbach. Where I live: Los Angeles, Calif. Where and when I was born: Born in 1967 in Ann Arbor, Mich., and grew up outside of Chicago. Family: …
Day: February 17, 2010
Belief in God Up in the Air?
The Lake Local School Board in Uniontown, Ohio, voted to remove a professed value of “belief in God” from district publications and its Web site in response to a Foundation …
College Essay Honorable Mention: My Journey from Faith to Reason: Leslie A. Zukor
This essay received an Honorable Mention in FFRF’s 2009 College Essay Competition and a prize of $250, including $50 donated by Dean and Dorea Schramm. Before I was an atheist, …
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College Essay — Honorable Mention: Why I Choose To Be ‘Other’: Victoria Mead
This essay received an Honorable Mention in FFRF’s 2009 College Essay Competition and a prize of $250, including $50 donated by Dean and Dorea Schramm. One evening I found myself …
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Freethought Radio – October 17, 2009
Topics: This weekend’s show features a conversation with the legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin, winner of many literary awards and best-known for her classic science fiction and fantasy writing. …
Controversial Bus Signs Pop Up in San Francisco
Atheists/Agnostics Urge “Imagine No Religion” Why would the nation’s largest group of freethinkers spend good money to put ads that make light of religion on buses in San Francisco? “If …
FFRF Again Asks Wis. Assembly to Stop Unlawful Prayers
Will Third Time Be the Charm? The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a state/church watchdog, sent a letter yesterday to Rep. Mike Sheridan, speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly, to ask the …
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Watchdog, Parents File Suit Against South Carolina Release- Time Credits
Grade for Practicing Religion Is Challenged in Federal Court A national state/church watchdog and two parent complainants in Spartanburg County, S.C., are filing a federal lawsuit today in U.S. District …
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FFRF’s “Praise Darwin” Billboard Stolen in Whitehall, Ohio, on Darwin Bicentennial
A billboard placed in suburban Columbus, Ohio, by the Freedom From Religion Foundation commemorating the Feb. 12 bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth was stolen only two days after it went …
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