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Freethought-Now Photo by Karollyne Videira Hubert It is the time of the year for growth, change and development. Birds are singing, plants are growing, and for those of us here in the Midwest, we have emerged from our winter hibernation. Unfortunately, not everything developing in the world is as cheerful as the flowers in your…
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Freethought-Now In honor of Pride Month, FFRF is publishing highlights about some of the many distinguished LGBTQ+ individuals, past and present, who have made known their dissent from religion. For more information, see FFRF’s Freethought of the Day series. Compiled by Sarah Weinstock and Bill Dunn. JANE ADDAMS Jane Addams was an American philanthropist and…
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Freethought-Now On the heels of our mobilization to oppose a theocratic D.C. jamboree and within the confines of a shortened workweek, we at the Freedom From Religion Foundation still achieved a lot. Our counterprotest against a Trump administration-organized prayer rally at the National Mall is still making waves. “During the event, opposing demonstrations occurred by groups,…
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Freethought-Now This week had everything: a taxpayer-supported Christian nationalist rally on the National Mall, a public school prayer protest in Arizona, another Trump administration attack on dissent and FFRF showing up everywhere from national media to late-night television. Yes, really. Here’s what happened this week in the ongoing fight to keep religion out of government.…
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Freethought-Now I love nothing more than a well-deserved picket or protest, so I was thrilled to be part of some icon-puncturing street theater on behalf of the Freedom From Religion Foundation at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. Despite some suspense about whether we could pull it off, FFRF was able to join…
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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…