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Niles gives Founding Fathers a place at the inn

Freedom From Religion Foundation’s new Chicago-area chapter has placed a Winter Solstice banner in Niles, Ill., celebrating the “nativity” of our Bill of Rights. It depicts the Founding Fathers reverently observing the Bill of Rights in a manger.

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FFRF’s Winter Solstice sign goes up in Milwaukee courthouse

A Freedom From Religion Foundation member has placed the group’s Winter Solstice sign in the Milwaukee courthouse today for the second year in a row.

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U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen ruled Nov. 27 that the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service and the Catholic Knights of Columbus council in Kalispell, Mont., can proceed.

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Buhler mayor to remove cross from city logo

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has successfully petitioned the city of Buhler to remove a cross from its official seal.

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Christmas cross won’t return to Illinois water tower

The village of Alsip, Ill., will not display a Latin cross on the village water tower this holiday season after receiving notice from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a state/church watchdog, that the practice is unconstitutional.
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Hallelujah! Reason prevails in Santa Monica

A federal judge today denied a Christian group’s attempt to force Santa Monica officials to re-open spaces in city parks for private displays, including Christian nativity scenes.

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Moore Trouble: ‘Ten Commandments’ judge chosen Chief Justice in Alabama

Joseph L. ConnWall of SeparationAs we reported yesterday, the election results this week were largely disappointing to the Catholic bishops and their Religious Right allies. Most of their top-priority candidates and referenda went down to defeat.One ex…

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‘No room at the inn’ in Henderson County for dissent

The Freedom From Religion Foundation received word on Oct. 24 that Henderson County, Texas, is refusing to permit it to post an “equal time” display on courthouse grounds by the large Christian nativity display dominating an entire corner.

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Hey cheerleaders: Forcing your faith onto others isn’t ‘religious liberty’

Religious freedom need not be a complicated concept. You can believe what you like. You have the right to worship the god (or gods) of your choice – or worship no god at all if you like. The problem is, some people are never satisfied with exercising that private right. They demand that they be allowed to use government channels to impose what they believe on others.

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“There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state, as religion. Let it once enter our civil affairs, our government would soon be destroyed. Let it once enter our comm…

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