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Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation is asking the Braxton County Board of Education to stop opening its meetings with prayer.  “OPENING PRAYER” is listed for each board meeting in its official agendas. A community district parent has informed the state/church watchdog […]

Read More Atheist Republic On Friday, April 15, a mob set the house of an ex-Muslim gym instructor on fire in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. According to local news outlets, the mob was led by a local right-wing Hindu group. Sajid, whose last name was not provided by local news outlets, was accused of kidnapping a

Read More Atheist Republic A Florida man decided to fix the book-banning spree in his state by calling for the banning of the Bible. In a letter dated April 19, 2022, Chaz Stevens, an artist, and Florida’s resident political stunt activist, requested the Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) and Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) ban

Read More Atheist Republic India’s first openly-gay royalty vowed to fight conversion therapy. After surviving the horrors of conversion therapy, Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil said he would work on making conversion therapy illegal in India. Equaldex, a collaborative knowledge base for the LGBT movement, puts India in the 51st rank in their World Equality Index,

Read More Atheist Republic A private adoption agency refused a couple of adoption services in Alabama for their lack of religion. A 30-year-old librarian, Alaina Browning, and her husband were devastated to hear the news. Family Adoption Services, a private adoption agency run by Richard and Susan Wyatt, sent the message to Browning.  “It hurt,”

Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The East Tennessee chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation is fed up with religion in government and wants citizens to help FFRF end such entanglements. To this end, it has put up a new billboard in the Knoxville area. The

Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation In a major blow to reproductive health and the separation of state and church, an appeals court yesterday effectively ended the court battle to overturn the infamous Texas abortion-ban-and-bounty law.   On Tuesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld

Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation A foofaraw in the Michigan Legislature over prayer epitomizes why our statehouses and other governmental bodies should finally drop the archaic ritual of opening with prayer.  Not only are legislators charged solely with secular and civil duties — terrestrial not celestial

Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation is gravely concerned that some U.S. Supreme Court justices will seek to use the case they heard today, about an ostentatiously praying coach, as an excuse to allow school staff to push religion onto students. The

Read More News Releases – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The usual tenets of ultraconservatives are being jettisoned in order to promote a Christian nationalist agenda, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ revenge against pro-LGBTQ Disney reveals. When extremist politicians who run on campaigns promoting “big business” start going after big business