The Freedom From Religion Foundation is delighted to announce the publication of lyricist Yip Harburg’s Rhymes for the Irreverent (January 2006). Harburg, whose lyrics include “Over the Rainbow,” “Paper Moon,” …
Day: January 1, 2006
Appeals Court Upholds FFRF’s Right to Sue over Bush’s Faith-based Office
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, in a Jan. 13 decision, handed a significant victory to the Freedom From Religion Foundation in its quest to challenge the …
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FFRF Appearances — Idaho and Milwaukee
Dan Barker, Foundation co-president and public relations director (in suit, front row), participated in a debate at the University of Idaho in Moscow on October 18 against Calvinist theologian Douglas …
Evolution Ups & Downs, and In Their Own Words–Evolution
With poetic justice, the citizens of Dover, Penn., voted on Nov. 8 to throw out eight of the nine Board members who had mandated that intelligent design” (creationism) be taught …
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Alito–A Fifth Catholic on High Court? and Overheard Re: Alito
If Samuel Alito, a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, he would become the court’s fifth conservative, male Roman Catholic–joining …
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Before and After FFRF Complaint
Before and After FFRF Complaint A complaint by the Freedom From Religion Foundation a year ago about a plaque (top) at a city-hosted museum in Moorhead, Minn., resulted in the …
Infidel Info
Godfree Europe? More than a third of citizens in 12 major European countries never or practically never attend church (World Values Survey, 2000), with 60% of the French boycotting church. …
In Their Own Words
In Their Own Words I’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan. And I did, and then God would …
Let Us Advance
By Robert G. Ingersoll I did not really appreciate the infamies that have been committed in the name of religion, until I saw the Thumbscrew–two little pieces of iron, armed …
