Name: John Senter Compere.Where I live: Chandler, Ariz.Where and when I was born: Ellisville, Miss., Oct. 17, 1934. When I tell people I grew up in Mississippi, I usually add, …
Day: September 20, 2012
Mirthful Montana myth
Each Good Friday, the Miles City Ministerial Association sponsors “Walk With the Cross,” during which Christians gather at a church at one end of Main Street and march a large …
Yahoo! Answers: How to save your child from atheism
Yahoo! Answers lets readers online ask questions which other readers respond to.Q. What is the best way to stop your child from becoming an athiest [sic]? I don’t want any …
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FFRF’s latest legal victories
Colin Mueller, a junior at Walton High School, Marietta, Ga., was denied approval from his school in April to start a new student group titled Freethinkers for Cooperation Acceptance and …
FFRF cries ‘Mayday!’ on multiple public prayer events
Pious mayors, governors and other public officials prayed in record numbers in early May across the land for national and state Day of Prayer events and local prayer breakfasts. FFRF’s …
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Help us save a preacher
FFRF announces fund to aid nonbelieving clergy FFRF has announced a fund to help “save a preacher,” in coordination with the Clergy Project, created to help clergy who have become …
Hysteria in Rhode Island over FFRF cross complaint
FFRF’s routine letter of complaint April 13 to Mayor Leo Fontaine, Woonsocket, R.I., over a Latin cross at city Fire Station No. 2 has provoked near-hysteria. Rhode Island Attorney General …
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Virginia judge sends commandments suit to mediator
U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski, Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, heard oral arguments May 7 in a case brought by a student and parent over a school Ten Commandments …
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Equal Treatment
FFRF Co-President Dan Barker was one of the performers March 31 at Rock Beyond Belief, the first-ever nontheist festival on a U.S. military base. “We’re sending a message,” said Justin …