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Freethought-Now We at the Freedom From Religion Foundation are focusing on an egregious theocratic Trump administration-organized event this Sunday — though not at the cost of ignoring other matters. FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor has had an op-ed decrying the faith-ful shindig published in the prestigious publication The Hill. “The White House is inexcusably busy encouraging…
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Freethought-Now Religious leaders pictured with Donald Trump for the 2025 National Day of Prayer. This Sunday, May 17, top Trump administration officials will be speaking on the National Mall as part of the “Rededicate 250” prayer and worship event. Pastors and politicians will join together to promote a revisionist narrative that America was founded as…
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Freethought-Now Events keep on happening at a head-spinning pace, but we at the Freedom From Religion Foundation are keeping up and making ourselves heard. One of the country’s most prominent publications highlighted our response to a specious Trump administration task force. “President Donald Trump’s task force to investigate ‘anti-Christian bias’ in the federal government published a report…
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Freethought-Now Marchers with signs at the March on Washington, 1963. Original black and white negative by Marion S. Trikosko. Taken August 28th, 1963. Colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd. The U.S. Supreme Court has tragically sounded the death knell for the Voting Rights Act. The court, in an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, purported to “update”…
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Freethought-Now I almost feel sorry this year for the National Day of Prayer Task Force — the self-appointed busybody promoter of the National Day of Prayer, a federal law declaring the first Thursday in May as the “National Day of Prayer.” It seems that the task force’s work has been pre-empted. First, our pandering president…
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Freethought-Now If there was any doubt about where the state/church battle is headed, this week helped clarify it. A federal appeals court greenlit government-mandated Ten Commandments displays in Texas public school classrooms — a ruling that doesn’t just test the limits of the First Amendment, but actively erodes them. And it didn’t happen in a…
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Weekly Wrap: A departed freethinker, a theocratic ag sec, Trump’s personal lawyer and AI ‘blasphemy’
Freethought-Now It is startling how much we here at the Freedom From Religion Foundation are able to take on — and get credit for — in a typical week. The New York Times graciously acknowledged our role in bringing to its attention the death of a leading freethinker (and an awardee of ours). “Wallace v. Jaffree ……
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Freethought-Now Christian nationalists insist that the separation of church and state is a “lie,” a “misunderstanding” or even an attack on religion itself. They’ve pushed Ten Commandments displays in public schools, have fought for school-sponsored prayer and have worked tirelessly to erode the Johnson Amendment so that churches can engage in partisan politics. But suddenly,…
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Freethought-Now Blasphemy! That was the sound of Christian religious leaders when President Trump posted an AI image on April 12 of himself as Jesus, allegedly healing a bed-ridden man. Well, blasphemy, as we all know, is a victimless “crime.” When someone yells “blasphemy!” I hear, “How dare you say anything bad about my imaginary god!”…
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Freethought-Now At the Freedom From Religion Foundation, we’re used to court cases taking years to wend their way through the court system before we can (hopefully) declare final victory. Once a case is closed, it usually stays that way — but not always. In the fall of 2014, FFRF and nearly 20 parents and students…