Contents tagged with Freedom from Religion Foundation
Filed in: School Prayer | by Matthew Clark | 5:38 PM Oct. 18, 2012
Cheerleaders Allowed to Display Bible Verses at Football Games
A court has just ruled that high school cheerleaders who were banned by their school from holding banners with Bible verses have a constitutional free speech right to display those signs at football games. The state court ruled that at least until the case goes to full trial next June, the students have a right to continue displaying the religious messages. The Texas school district was dragged into litigation after complying with demands from the Wisconsin-based atheist group Freedom From Rel... Continue Reading
Filed in: American Heritage | by Matthew Clark | 9:13 AM Jul. 17, 2012
Jesus Statue War Memorial Doesn’t Violate Constitution; It Honors Fallen Soldiers
Anything that could have a religious connotation offends them, and when it offends them, the Constitution requires that it be removed. That is the argument that the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) and other angry atheist groups try to make in court time and time again. This time it’s a nearly 60-year-old war memorial statue of Jesus – erected by World War II veterans as a reminder of the many similar statues they saw as they fought across Europe. The Freedom From Religion F... Continue Reading
Filed in: Public Prayer | by Matthew Clark | 7:45 PM Jul. 11, 2012
Angry Atheists Bully Locality to Squelch Public Prayer
The atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) is at it again, attacking prayer at public meetings. This time the target of their attack was my hometown. For more than a quarter century Henrico County, Virginia had opened its Board of Supervisors meetings with an invocation, much like many other county boards and city councils around the country. After the June 12th meeting, which opened with an invocation by a local Baptist pastor, someone complained. The complaints came from two ... Continue Reading
Filed in: Public Prayer | by Matthew Clark | 4:56 PM Dec. 22, 2011
2011 Victories: Public Prayer is Not a Constitutional Crisis
This is the latest installment in a year-end series looking back at a few of the hundreds of victories by the ACLJ in 2011. Just weeks before this year’s National Day of Prayer, a federal appeals court threw out a challenge by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) to the yearly presidential proclamation calling Americans to pray. The ACLJ represented 67 Members of Congress and thousands of concerned Americans in an amicus brief urging the court to reject the anti-faith lawsuit. The ... Continue Reading
Filed in: American Heritage | by Jay Sekulow | 2:41 PM Dec. 7, 2011
UPDATE: ACLJ Support for MT Jesus Statue Dominates Comments to Feds
Your voice has been heard! Last week, we sent the National Forest Service our letter defending the Jesus war memorial statue on a Montana mountain - with more than 70,000 names - concerned individuals who stood with us in urging the Forest Service to renew a long-standing lease that would permit this historic memorial to stay atop Big Mountain, where it was placed nearly 60 years ago. The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), an atheist, anti-Christian group, is opposing the lease renewal, c... Continue Reading
Filed in: American Heritage | by David French | 12:49 PM Nov. 1, 2011
Offended Atheists Strike Again
The decades-long battle over religious symbols rages on. Earlier this year, American Atheists sued to block placement of the famous Ground Zero Cross in the 9/11 Memorial Museum (that case is ongoing). Yesterday, over Justice Thomas’s sharp dissent, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from a case rejecting the use of crosses as roadside memorials to fallen Utah state troopers. And a controversy is currently building over the Freedom from Religion Foundation’s efforts to have... Continue Reading
Filed in: American Heritage | by Matthew Clark | 4:49 PM Oct. 31, 2011
In 5 Hours Jesus Statue Support Eclipses Atheist Group’s Membership
In just a few short hours, more people have taken a stand for the war memorial statue of Jesus that sits atop Big Mountain in Montana than the entire membership of the atheist group seeking to have it removed. Less than five hours after the ACLJ posted our letter to the U.S. Forest Service online, urging it to renew its lease to the Knights of Columbus and allow the nearly 60-year-old World War II memorial to remain, more people had signed onto the letter than the entire claimed 17,000 membersh... Continue Reading
Filed in: American Heritage | by Jay Sekulow | 10:46 AM Oct. 31, 2011
Protect Montana War Memorial Under Attack by Atheist Group
It is an organization that is dedicated to removing any vestige of our religious history and heritage in this country. I'm talking about the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) - an atheist, anti-Christian group - that we have battled over the Pledge of Allegiance, the National Day of Prayer, and even the National Motto. Now, the FFRF is targeting another historic display - this one in Montana - a statue of Jesus placed on Big Mountain at the Whitefish Mountain Resort nearly 60 years ago. Th... Continue Reading
Filed in: Public Prayer | by Jay Sekulow | 9:29 AM Jul. 29, 2011
Atheists Shutdown in TX: One Down, One to Go
A federal court in Texas did exactly what a federal appeals court did just three months ago. Shut down a flawed legal challenge by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), an atheist group. The federal judge rejected FFRF's lawsuit targeting the Day of Prayer in Texas scheduled for August 6th. The group went to court to try and block Texas Governor Rick Perry, who issued a prayer proclamation, from participating in a prayer event scheduled for that day. The court did exactly what we had ho... Continue Reading
