FFRF awarded Lynn a $1,000 scholarship. The night of May 8, 2012, my young daughter and I awaited the election results of North Carolina’s proposed constitutional amendment. Most of the …
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Is it time for our public school children to repay the debt of the Republican party to the Religious Right? Newt Gingrich has been pushing for an amendment to the …
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Following release of the results of a federally-subsidized study on prayer in late April, the Freedom From Religion Foundation renewed its call to the Office of Alternative Medicine not to …
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Humankind has always had a begging relationship with god. Prayers are sent skyward with the hope that some blessing will derive from the effort. Children beg for bikes, teenagers for …
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“Under our system the choice has been made that government is to be entirely excluded from the area of religious instruction. . . . The Constitution decrees that religion must …
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She contributed a common word, “maudlin,” to the English vocabulary. Two British colleges, one at Oxford, one at Cambridge, are named for her. Often naked, covered only by her long, …
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Professor Jerry Coyne accepted FFRF’s Emperor Has No Clothes Award with this speech Oct. 8, 2011, in Hartford, Conn. It has been edited for print. By Jerry Coyne Thanks very …
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For many people, surviving a traumatic injury prompts a religious devotion or a sense of having been “saved” by a higher power. Yet, growing up with a third-degree burn had …
Our Constitution is in peril, and in peril mainly because its foremost antagonists now sit on the federal bench or are being nominated to it. Attorney Pamela Sumners This speech …
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