In the wake of the ongoing armed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a direct consequence of President Trump’s encouragement, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling on Congress (once …
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The “We Dissent” podcast this month discusses a difficult but impossible-to-avoid subject.On Episode 37, FFRF Deputy Legal Director Liz Cavell and Americans United Legal Director Rebecca Markert process the recent election …
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 …
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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This speech was delivered on December 6, 1997, at the 20th annual convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Tampa, Florida.Sometimes, when I speak of the great Mother Goddess …
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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By Barbara G. Walker Of the millions of species that have ever lived on this planet, human beings probably are the first to have a clear understanding that death is …
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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“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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