FFRF filed this brief with the California Court of Appeals on April 22, 2014 in support of a local atheist who opposed the city council opening their meetings with prayers. …
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Freethought Radio – March 22, 2014
In The News: “A Tale of Three Cities.” FFRF complains about mixing religion and government in Green Bay (WI), Birmingham (AL), and Sand Point (ID). We welcome spring with music …
Freethought Radio – February 22, 2014
In The News: FFRF removes bibles from another state-owned hotel room; and successful student activists in North Carolina. Hear Annie Laurie interviewed by Sean Hannity about the Iowa State victory. …
Needed: Board of Clergy Examiners (November 2002)
Clerics have been guilty of literally thousands of felony rapes of minors within the past 30 years (a minor cannot give consent to sexual intercourse). Reasons for voting for a …
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On the Trail of Bogus Quotes (November 2002)
This essay excerpts research currently under review for publication by the journal German Studies Review. We often hear accusations that “Adolf Hitler was an atheist and look what he did!” …
Learning Under God (November 2002)
On June 25, 2002, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that the “one nation under God” phrase of the Pledge of Allegiance represents an …
Congress Shall Make No Law (November 2002)
“In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.” Thus ruled Associate Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark in 1963. Yet today …
Education Under God (November 2002)
“There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state, as religion. Let it once enter our civil …
Judge Alfred T. Goodwin and Thomas Jefferson: Guarding the Wall (November 2002)
How fitting that Judge Alfred T. Goodwin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit should write the opinion declaring “under God” unconstitutional in the 200th year …
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