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Freethought-Now We have you in mind for everything that we engage in at the Freedom From Religion Foundation. This includes keeping our government true to its constitutional foundations so that religion is not imposed on you and other freethinkers. That’s why, when the Florida Department of Education set up a complaint line for folks in…
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Freethought-Now Photo by Lena Balk on Unsplash It has been nine months since the Supreme Court announced its ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, holding that Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors was constitutional. Since then, those of us who have been monitoring the growing anti-transgender movement in the United States have been watching carefully to see…
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Freethought-Now We at the Freedom From Religion Foundation sometimes wish we had the time to savor the victories and media coverage regularly coming our way. When we won a case as part of a coalition against the imposition of the Ten Commandments in Arkansas public schools, it made a splash everywhere from USA Today to…
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Freethought-Now You may have noticed that over the past year, the religious right has been sounding the alarm about a supposed looming threat: “Sharia law.” In Texas, Florida and beyond, politicians have built entire campaigns around the idea that Muslims are poised to impose religious rule, override the Constitution and replace secular law with theology.…
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Freethought-Now While some on our staff were out part of the week for meetings with the Secular Coalition for America in Washington, D.C., the Freedom From Religion Foundation stayed productive. Our message has been recently featured in such a variety of forums that it is hard for us to keep track. FFRF Regional Government Affairs…
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Freethought-Now Our work at the Freedom From Religion Foundation seems to be catching the attention of our adversaries and allies alike. An official at a health care sharing ministry umbrella group wrote a piece on the hard-right Townhall site accusing us of irrational prejudice toward such health care entities. (Not at all: Here’s one very persuasively rational critique we…
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Freethought-Now There can be no better feeling for us at the Freedom From Religion Foundation than our message finding a large target audience — and there’s been a lot of that happening over the past few days. NPR ran on its website an Associated Press story mentioning us. “A U.S. appeals court has cleared the…
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Freethought-Now On Feb. 6, I participated in a debate at Restoration Church in Rowland, Texas, on the topic “Does the God of the Bible Exist?” against Christian philosopher Elias Ayala. The debate was part of a weekend conference sponsored by “The Gospel Truth.” This was my 10-minute Opening Statement. OPENING STATEMENT BY DAN BARKER On…
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I remember when the terms “crunchy” and “granola” had primarily liberal connotations. Marked by a concern for the environment, the quality of the food we were consuming and the educational value of children’s books and free play outside, until recently it was always something I associated with hippies and left-leaning people. My own parents were…
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We at the Freedom From Religion Foundation are sometimes amazed at how the word gets out about our endeavors. The National Center for Science Education noticed an important initiative from our legislative arm. “A model state bill to safeguard the religious neutrality of public education is making headway across the country — and evolution education in particular…