FFRF Staff Attorney Sam Grover explores why Answers in Genesis, the evolution-denying religious group led by young earth creationist Ken Ham, is now eligible for up to $18 million in tax incentives from the Kentucky government, thanks to a federal judge’s misguided ruling.
Sam Grover, FFRF Staff Attorney, discusses the long history of vandalizing and stealing freethought holiday displays and FFRF’s new strategy to combat those criminals. Now, people are pledging to donate to FFRF whenever a display is vandalized or stolen, so the criminals are basically donating to FFRF.
Here is one concrete idea for supporting our active duty military without increasing the military budget: convert our military chaplaincies. Each branch of our military has a chaplaincy program, ostensibly in order to accommodate the spiritual needs of service members serving abroad and in remote areas. But the need for such accommodation is questionable.
Have you been watching the legal battles over cake decorators and municipal clerks like Kim Davis who want to be able to discriminate against gay couples in the name of “religious freedom?” Now a bill has been pre-filed in Florida for the 2016 legislative session that would allow any person (or corporation) to legally discriminate in the name of their personal religion.
Arizona has an ambiguous, poorly-drafted law on the books that forces public schools to promote childbirth and adoption as preferred options to abortion for unwanted pregnancies in all of their programs and instructional materials. The law is terribly constructed. Which is probably why Arizona’s public schools have mostly been ignoring it for the past few years. But not Gilbert Public Schools, a Phoenix suburb with a high Mormon population.
FFRF staff attorney Sam Grover discusses the “Jesus Welcomes You To Hawkins” sign coming down in Hawkins, Texas.
If you give religion an inch, it’ll take a mile. This has never been more true in the U.S. than it is today, as illustrated
Paying property taxes is a burden. While we all might dream up ways to avoid paying our taxes, most of us choose not to commit
You’d be hard-pressed to find many people who like to pay more taxes. That’s what makes the “individual mandate” of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
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