Missouri Supreme Court Doublespeak It was a miscarriage of justice when the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously on February 13 to uphold the constitutionality of a statute requiring a So …
Day: February 28, 2001
Hold BSA Feet To The Camp Fire
FFRF Statement on Boy Scouts of America For Immediate Release Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Boy Scouts of America is a private group which can exclude …
Linus Torvalds
“I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both. … I think we can have morals without getting …
Maarten Schmidt
“I don’t. No, no, no.” …
Wendy Kaminer
“I don’t care if religious people consider me amoral because I lack their beliefs in God. I do, however, care deeply about efforts to turn religious beliefs into law, and …
John Legend
“I grew up in a religious home, but I’m not religious right now. … I saw a lot of hypocrisy. I felt like religion, in a lot of ways, was used …
Claude Lévi-Strauss
“Personally, I’ve never been confronted with the question of God.” …
Randy Newman
“Clearly, the Newmans weren’t what you would call observant and the revelation of his Jewishness prompted in Randy a study of comparative religion that made him a devout atheist (‘except …
Sir Leslie Stephen
“I now believe in nothing, to put it shortly; but I do not the less believe in morality.” …