Foundation member, fixture and dear friend Kenneth Taubert, Wis., who served for nearly two decades as the Foundation’s treasurer and is known to FFRF convention-regulars as the man who ran …
Day: May 1, 2007
FFRF Tops 10,000 Members!
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, in late April, topped 10,000 current members! The Foundation added about 2,000 members since late last year, signing up 800 alone in the two-week period …
Indiana Lawsuit Grabs Headlines
The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed its tenth and newest federal faith-based challenge on May 2, challenging the creation of a chaplaincy for staff of the Indiana Family and Social …
Feds Make Ominous Argument
An indication of how ruthless the U.S. government could be in quashing future state/church challenges is demonstrated by the government’s position in a case on appeal by the Freedom From …
FFRF Talk Kicks off UCLA Student Group
Freedom From Religion Foundation co-president Dan Barker gave a talk on “Did Jesus Exist?” to the UCLA-Bruin Alliance of Skeptics and Secularists (BASS, bruinskeptics.org) on Feb. 22 in Royce Hall. …
In Their Own Words
I’ve spent a lot of my life around hookers. [Asserting, after brief pause, that faith-based initiatives can address core issues leading to prostitution.] Ex-White House faith czar Jim ToweyDuke Chronicle, …
FFRF Watches Prison Program
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, whose federal lawsuit last year halted plans by the Federal Bureau of Prisons to endow single-faith” prison programs in several federal penitentiaries, is watching Bureau …
Faith-based Funding Flood Continues
States Push Faith Funding With at least half of state governors now acceding to Pres. Bush’s demand to set up state faith-based liaisons, several states are now entertaining legislation to …
Honorable Mentions — Students Reject Religion
Below are excerpts of seven essays on being a freethinker which were deemed honorable mentions” in FFRF’s 2006 essay competition for college students. Each of these students received $100 in …
