A Catholic priest, who has been leading pre-game and post-game locker room prayers for the Wisconsin Badgers football team, may no longer be allowed to accompany the team on its …
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Finding Freethought In The Bible Belt by Beth Perry (March 1994)
I live in Jacksonville, Florida, where the Duval County School Board is infamous nationwide for banning 60 books within the past two years, including the child’s book of wonderful poetry, …
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The Not-At-All Scientific Creationists by Delos McKown, Ph.D. (March 1994)
Some people are content to let religious faith be faith. Other people are not content until they convince you and me that what they have faith in is factual. In …
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Football Prayers Clearly Impermissible by Michael Hakeem (March 1994)
The following is a letter from Michael Hakeem, Foundation Executive Council member and UW professor emeritus (sociology), to the chancellor over the policy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to permit …
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“Culture Of Disbelief” Spells Trouble For Unbelief by Annie Laurie Gaylor (March 1994)
The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious DevotionStephen L. Carter, BasicBooks, 1993 After President Clinton plugged Stephen Carter’s book, Culture of Disbelief, at a “White House …
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Creationism– Science or Religious Charade? by Russell Lee Ellsworth (March 1994)
“One of the most important things to teach in the educational establishments of a democracy is the power of weighing arguments, and the open mind which is prepared in advance …
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Hair Is To Wipe With: Three Women In One by Robert Gorham Davis (March 1994)
She contributed a common word, “maudlin,” to the English vocabulary. Two British colleges, one at Oxford, one at Cambridge, are named for her. Often naked, covered only by her long, …
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Praise . . . The Weismans! (Jan/Feb 1994)
The Loudoun School board, Virginia, dropped its 9-month fight to pray at graduation ceremonies in January by a 7-3 vote. The board members agreed not to appeal a ruling in …
Freedom From Religion! by Hank Shiver (Jan/Feb 1994)
My activism with the Freedom From Religion Foundation began in January, 1989. I contacted Annie Laurie Gaylor with a complaint of child labor violations that I witnessed at the Alabama …
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