Idaho potatoes, a Saudi blogger, mountaintop crosses and Oklahoma’s ‘official’ state book
A boycott warning, an Oklahoma City newspaper column and a call for removal of mountaintop crosses — the Freedom From Religion Foundation has been responsible for all of this recently. We threatened Idaho’s governor with a boycott of the state’s famous potatoes if a six-week-ban-and-bounty law targeting abortion (a copy of the infamous Texas measure) is […]
Media and senatorial mentions, a Texas mess, God’s machismo and the favoring of a killer
From capturing media attention in the Midwest to being warmly mentioned in a Hawaii senator’s press release, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is making quite an impression. We created media waves in Ohio with our objection to unconstitutional prayer at a high school football game. Prominent stories on television, radio, print and blog sites made […]
Vaccines, abortion rights, the Supreme Court & the missionary Big Oil nexus
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has been concentrating on issues of critical importance this week. What can be more important than getting people vaccinated to help end the pandemic? This is why FFRF Director of Strategic Response Andrew L. Seidel argued in a new column for Religion Dispatches that vaccine mandates are constitutional, and religious […]
’Tis the season . . . for clueless pious politicians
I recently signed and mailed almost 200 greeting cards commemorating Bill of Rights Day last Friday to Texas legislators on behalf of the FFRF.
We Didn’t Get Tired of Winning
This was a week at the FFRF in which we didn’t get tired of winning (if you may forgive us purloining the phrase from an unlikely source).
