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Freethought Radio - June 1, 2013 Broadcast
Happy Birthday to composers Edward Elgar and Charles Strouse! This week we hear an update on the Ball State professor who is preaching creationism in the classroom. Then we talk with Victor Stenger...
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There’s no reason to keep hating
Oh no! "Pulpit Freedom Sunday" is back! The Orwellian-named "Alliance Defending Freedom" typically hosts the annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday in the fall, encouraging pastors around the country to openly...
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Freethought Radio - June 8, 2013 Broadcast
There is no reason to keep hating. Women's rights, Roe v. Wade, and the current "marriage equality" cases before the U.S. Supreme Court are this week's topics. We hear Roy Zimmerman's hilarious song...
View ArticleBigoted U.S. reps say no to equality in military
There are plenty of foxhole atheists, but religionists on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee made sure this week that none will be allowed to serve as secular representatives in the chaplain...
View ArticleWisconsin voucher expansion scheme alarming
FFRF Statement "Forward" may be the official motto of Wisconsin, but Wisconsin's governor has made an alarming deal with legislative leadership that will take our state educational system backward....
View ArticleFederal Immigration Office discriminates against nonbelievers
Read the letter of complaint to the Houston USCIS
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Celebrate 50 years of freedom from religious ritual in public schools
Monday, June 17, marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Abington v. Schempp.Ellery Schempp began protesting morning devotions as a 16-year-old junior in...
View ArticleFFRF sues Orange County schools over literature discrimination
The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit June 12, 2013, in U.S. District Court in Florida against the Orange County School Board in Orlando for censoring distribution of freethought...
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Celebrate Our Godless Constitution
Click to enlarge Join FFRFFree Information Make a Donation Sources, with scans of some of the originals Thomas Paine “Whenever we read the Obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and...
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Does the pope rule Ireland . . . and Wisconsin . . . and Texas . . . and . . . ?
Annie Laurie Gaylor and Taslima Nasrin at Atheist Ireland's Empowering Women Through Secularism Conference By Annie Laurie GaylorCo-PresidentFreedom From Religion Foundation I had a bad case of déjà...
View ArticleLetter brings Oklahoma commandments down
An Oklahoma school district learned a valuable lesson thanks to FFRF and its student complainant. On May 1, FFRF sent a letter to Muldrow Public Schools Superintendent Ron Flanagan asking for removal...
View ArticleHank Kocol, 1937–2013
FFRF Lifetime Member Hank Kocol made his “Final Exit” on April 20, 2013, in Roseville, Calif. He is survived by his wife, Cleo, also a Lifetime Member, and sons, Henry Kocol and Steven Hall. Born on...
View ArticleJohn Tomasin, 1924–2013
John Tomasin, 88, West New York, N.J., died Feb. 20, 2013. He was born May 28, 1924. After graduating from high school in 1942, he served three years in the Navy during World War II. He attended John...
View ArticleRose Alice Zerwick, 1918–2013
Freedom From Religion Foundation Life Member Rose Alice Zerwick, age 95, died as she had wished, at home in Madison, Wis., surrounded by her four children on April 10, 2013. She was born March 6,...
View ArticleAtheists guaranteed cootie-free
During the April 4 City Council meeting on the Vietnam War memorial in Mingus Park [in Coos Bay, Ore., a monument with a Latin cross about which FFRF has formally complained], I was flanked on either...
View ArticlePriest’s JFK sermon turned her from church
Name: Cheryl Kolbe. Where I live: Portland, Ore. Where and when I was born: Boston in 1946. Family: I’ve been married for 43 years to Ed, and we have two daughters. Lisa lives in Orange, Calif., with...
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Evangelicals resist new Scouts proposal A proposal by the Boy Scouts of America would let gays join but continue to bar gay adults from serving as troop leaders. The decision, announced April 19 by the...
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Board member resigns over meeting prayer Leonard Pryor resigned May 3 from the Rockingham County Board of Education in Eden, N.C., citing the board’s consideration of opening its meetings with a...
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