Bans on gender-affirming care, especially for minors, have dominated much of the recent discourse surrounding trans rights. While these bans, with names like “Save Adolescents From Experimentation Acts,” are framed …
Day: May 16, 2024
FFRF Opposes Drag Bans
Much like bans in public schools on learning about the existence of LGBTQIA+ people and communities, bills banning minors from viewing drag performances rely on the presumption that drag is …
FFRF Opposes Sports and Bathroom Bans
“Protecting women’s sports” has become a major rallying cry by religiously motivated opponents of transgender people, especially transgender youth. This issue is completely manufactured: School and professional athletic associations have …
FFRF Supports Anti-discrimination Laws and Ending Religious Exemptions
Legal protections for LGBTQIA+ individuals vary widely from state to state, and in some states, from city to city. Anti-discrimination laws may cover any number of areas, from education to …
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FFRF Supports Bans on Conversion Therapy
Frequently associated with religious organizations, conversion therapy — also sometimes known as “anti-gay” or “reparative therapy” —is widely agreed to be unscientific and outright dangerous to the people subjected to …
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity/Expression
Sexual Orientation: Religious support for LGB rights varies across different groups. Many conservative sects, such as the Roman Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), …
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FFRF Issues Home
The separation of state and church should matter to you. It matters to the health of our democracy. It matters to the promise that everyone regardless of religious belief or …
Lawmakers unveil statue of Billy Graham in US Capitol
Religion News Service By Jack Jenkins …
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FFRF criticizes passage of three theocratic bills in Tennessee
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is excoriating a theocratic bill signed into law in Tennessee that makes a version of the bible an “official state book.” House Bill 1828, which …
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