Emory University received a $1.5 million federal grant from Health and Human Service, announced in October 2002, to support faith-based community health programs across the country. Emory’s Interfaith Health Program …
Day: January 11, 2005
FFRF Challenges Funding of MentorKids (January 11, 2005)
The lawsuit sought a court order to HHS to discontinue funding MentorKids, as well as an order to enjoin HHS from “further disbursement of funding to faith-based mentoring groups until …
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Undiplomatic Relations
Vatican’s Anti-gay Politicking Calls for Abolishing Ambassadorship Statement by Freethought Today editor Annie Laurie Gaylor It’s time to abolish the U.S. ambassadorship to the Vatican. The Freedom From Religion Foundation …
U.S. Congress Sells Out Again over Pledge
State/Church Watchdog Group Asks Its Members to Protest Pledge Votes (Madison, WI) The Freedom From Religion Foundation condemned the “shallow religious opportunism” of the U.S. Senate in passing a second …
Bush’s Faith-Based Funding Proposal Would Ring in Faith-Based Discrimination
“Do Ask. Don’t Hire?” The Salvation Army’s proposed “deal” with the Bush Administration, exposed by the Washington Post yesterday, should be ringing alarm bells–not donation bells–according to the Freedom From …
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Lawsuit Goes After Bush-Endorsed Agenda
Watchdog Group Files Constitutional Challenge to Public Funding of Pervasively Sectarian, “Faith-Based” Welfare Reform Program The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based national organization working to defend separation of church …
“Irreverent Bunch” Gathers To Honor Freethought, First Amendment
Unconventional Convention–St. Paul, Sept. 15-17, 2000 For immediate release The 23rd annual national convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation will gather at the St. Paul Radisson Inn on the …
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Hector Berlioz
“I believe nothing.” …
Ellen Key
“But the most dangerous of all educational mistakes in influencing humanity is due to the fact that children are now taught the Old Testament account of the world as absolute …
