Women’s rights & the judiciary — plus so much more

We at the Freedom From Religion Foundation came to grips with a variety of issues this week. The Religious Right’s assault on women’s rights has been increasingly concerning to us — aided and abetted by the reactionary Supreme Court. We agreed with Justice Sonia Sotomayor that the impact of the court’s failure to block the […]
We call it as we see it

We at the Freedom From Religion Foundation call it as we see it, whether at home or abroad.
Reminder: The pope’s still conservative and a moral hypocrite

This pope sounds more liberal than his predecessors but he hasn’t changed much. His failure to act still taints the Catholic Church with a conservative, moral leprosy.
Something’s rotten in NYC; wall separating state and church is crumbling

FFRF Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel laments NYC and Mayor de Blasio’s lack of respect for the separation of state and church and highlights several serious First Amendment violations committed by the city.
Popes, misquotes, dogs and heaven
Last week Pope Francis was hailed worldwide merely for appearing to suggest that dogs can go to heaven. Then it turned out he never said it. For the record, this is the pope’s void-for-vagueness remark about heaven on Vatican Radio Nov. 26: “The Holy Scripture teaches us that the fulfillment of this wonderful design also […]