Showing posts with label Freedom From Religion Foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freedom From Religion Foundation. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Eli Frost: How I Moved My Graduation Out of a Megachurch | FFRF Conventi...

Minnesota student Eli Frost receives FFRF’s Beverly & Richard Hermsen Student Activist Award after leading a successful campaign to move Chaska High School’s graduation from a discriminatory megachurch to a secular venue. Eli shares how he organized petitions, worked the media, collaborated with FFRF’s legal team, weathered a setback and ultimately walked at a church-free ceremony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7umzyc_0hQ

 

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Trump Is Disappearing People + Oklahoma Sues to Impose God on School Children + (Andrew Seidel; One Nation Indivisible, Episode #007)

In this episode, Andrew Seidel discusses Christian Nationalist Ryan Walters' absurd lawsuit against the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) for upholding the separation of church and state in Oklahoma schools. The episode also covers the alarming actions of the Trump administration, which have led to the deportation of individuals without due process. Andrew criticizes the poor quality of Walters' lawsuit and emphasizes the importance of due process in protecting constitutional rights against authoritarian power.

Link to the Oklahoma complaint against FFRF: https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/walters-lawsuit-ffrf-67eb02422f07f.pdf

Poem: What I would tell Eve, by Meghen McAuliffe O'Leary in Full Belly: Poems by Maegen McAuliffe O’Leary, available from TheFinishedProject.org.
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Sunday, January 5, 2025

Kate Cohen: "Tampon Tim" and the Long Reach of Religion | FFRF Convention 2024

Kate Cohen's talk, "'Tampon Tim' and the Long Reach of Religion," highlights how religion continues to influence public policy, especially in education. She takes aim at school voucher programs that funnel public money into religious institutions and connect Christian nationalism to anti-LGBTQ and anti-transgender laws. With humor, she explains how media and politics intersect with religious bias, referencing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz being mocked for his progressive policies. Cohen emphasizes that challenging religious influence is essential for protecting personal freedoms and fostering equality.

The "New Atheist" War on Trans People (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #564)

— FFRF, Jerry Coyne, and why the “New Atheists” have waged war against trans people. (1:45)

— Taxpayers funded this trashy, failing Mormon-based private school in Arizona. (46:45)

— Oklahoma’s new social studies standards go all in on Christian Nationalism. (57:15)

— Texas book ban backfires after school removes Bible over “sexually explicit” content. (1:06:27)
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Thursday, January 2, 2025

FFRF leads a secular resistance - Freethought Today

If the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 prevails, we already know its proposals would unite church and state by:

• Infusing "the pursuit of Blessedness" into every level of government. (Page 13)

• Dismantling nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ-plus Americans. (Pages 333, 375 and 548)

• Mandating a "biblically based" definition of marriage and family. (Pages 477–482)

• Dismantling civil rights protections in the name of "religious liberty," providing a license to discriminate. (Page 494)…

https://www.freethoughttoday.com/sections/100-front-page/ffrf-leads-a-secular-resistance/ 


 

Monday, December 30, 2024

Overheard (December 2024) - Freethought Today

If you're running a Christian nationalist state, where white Christians of European descent have pride of place over everyone else in the country, well, then you can run an authoritarian regime that gives preference to that group and everyone else just kind of gets what they can get, as second- or third-class citizens...

https://www.freethoughttoday.com/free/overheard-december-2024/ 


 








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