All one thousand and fifty U.S. mayors presiding over cities with populations of 30,000 or more, are being asked by the Freedom From Religion Foundation to issue two secular proclamations …
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit on September 1 in federal court in Madison, challenging Wisconsin’s unconstitutional Good Friday law, which uniquely mandates that all citizens “worship” and …
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has written the city commissioners of Stuart, Florida, to oppose its recent 3-2 vote to permit a fundamentalist group to erect a cross in a …
If someone in a restaurant whipped out a comb from pocket or purse and began vigorously combing his or her hair, would you as an observer think with delight, “Oh, …
The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s campaign to counter intimidation of public school officials by the Religious Right is off to a resounding start. So far public school administrators in Mississippi, …
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“Unbelief, . . . is primarily the rejection of belief in miracles and divine revelation, in life after death, and in any supernatural beings–gods, devils, [etc.].”[1] It should be noted …
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Footnotes 1 Paul Edwards, forward to THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNBELIEF xi (Gordon Stein, Ph.D., ed. 1985). 2 Id., quoting St. Thomas Aquinas’ SUMMA THEOLOGICA. 3 Id. 4 Paul Boyer and …
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Is religion getting a fair shake on television? That question was addressed at a June UCLA conference in Santa Monica, California: “Religion And Prime Time Television.” Participants included executives, producers, …
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President Clinton released this memo on July 12, 1995, directing Attorney General Janet Reno and Secretary of Education Richard Riley to convey this information to every public school by the …
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