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The Freedom From Religion Foundation warmly congratulates 16-year-old Jessica Ahlquist, whose federal challenge against a prayer banner hanging in her high school in Rhode Island prevailed when U.S. District Judge Ronald Lagueux ruled yesterday the banner must be removed immediately.

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Early in 2010, Gary Glenn of the American Family Association of Michigan and three Michigan pastors filed a lawsuit against the federal Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. The group was represented by the ultra-right wing Thomas More Law Center, which …

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In response to being named as a defendant in a federal lawsuit by the Freedom From Religion Foundation over a nativity scene violation, Warren Mayor James R. Fouts (Mich.) is lashing out, calling FFRF’s message “un-American.”

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The Freedom From Religion Foundation, its Valley of the Sun chapter, and several FFRF members and Maricopa County citizens brought suit yesterday against Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, challenging her annual Arizona Day of Prayer.

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The Religious Right’s rigid mindset dictates that its adherents can do things on their own terms no matter what the law or anyone else says. As a student at a Georgia university and the Alliance Defense Fund recently discovered, federal courts don’t support that mentality.

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It ain’t over yet . . . for the Freedom From Religion Foundation and its Arizona attorneys, after a federal judge in Arizona said the national group and its Arizona plaintiffs have no right to sue Gov. Jan Brewer over her annual Day of Prayer exhortations to citizens.

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The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a federal lawsuit today against the Town of Whiteville, Tenn., and its mayor, James Bellar, to force him to remove crosses on the Whiteville water tower, in front of Whiteville City Hall and on the city-owned sidewalk.

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Open Doors is an organization that is, according to its own slogan, dedicated to "serving persecuted Christians worldwide" with a mission to work in the "world’s most oppressive countries, strengthening Christians to stand strong in the …

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The Freedom from Religion Foundation sent a letter Nov. 3 to Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange objecting to a proposed sentencing program in Bay Minette that would let people choose going to church instead of serving their sentence in jail.

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Humanists applaud court’s decision to not rehear Mt. Soledad Cross case

The American Humanist Association is pleased with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Monday decision not to re-hear the Mt. Soledad cross case where, as part of a war memorial, a 43-foot cross has been ruled unconstitutional. That January ruling reversed a 2008 U.S. District Court decision.

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