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	StumbleUpon » Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.
		Benjamin Franklin assented on the premise that religion produced some of questionable motives, but equally accented on the knowledge that people without religion were prone to the destructive nature of their desires, and in response he said "If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it".
		In America, to propose the abolition of religion is to propose the abolition of freedom itself, for in the liberty of freedom, is the open and equal right to public expression of either religion or no religion.
		In essence, the atheists that agree on the destruction of religion and seek laws to do so, are in effect creating a religion in both atheism and in the law, which is contrary to their supposed beliefs against religion.
	www.stumbleupon.com /url/www.ffrf.org (716 words)

	Roundtable Legal Update-Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. (and others) vs. R. James Nicholson, Secretary of the ...
		FFRF's lawsuit, which we described and analyzed in a prior legal update[2], alleges that the VA's chaplaincy program violates the Establishment Clause because it attempts to integrate spirituality into all aspects of the VA's health care.
		FFRF's lawsuit does not challenge the constitutionality of the entire VA chaplaincy program, but only those features of the program that are not designed to meet the free exercise needs of patients confined to VA facilities.
		In this case, the court ruled, FFRF alleges that the VA's chaplaincy program advances religion "because it tends to send a message to non-religious veterans that they may be unable to completely heal if they do not believe that spirituality plays an important role in their recovery" (Opinion, at 11).
	www.religionandsocialpolicy.com /legal/legal_update_display.cfm?id=50 (1114 words)

	Roundtable Legal Update-Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc. (and others) vs. R. James Nicholson, Secretary of the ...
		FFRF's lawsuit, which we described and analyzed in a prior legal update[2], alleges that the VA's chaplaincy program violates the Establishment Clause because it attempts to integrate spirituality into all aspects of the VA's health care.
		FFRF's lawsuit does not challenge the constitutionality of the entire VA chaplaincy program, but only those features of the program that are not designed to meet the free exercise needs of patients confined to VA facilities.
		In this case, the court ruled, FFRF alleges that the VA's chaplaincy program advances religion "because it tends to send a message to non-religious veterans that they may be unable to completely heal if they do not believe that spirituality plays an important role in their recovery" (Opinion, at 11).
	www.religionandsocialpolicy.org /legal/legal_update_display.cfm?id=50 (1138 words)

	No. 06-157: Hein v. Freedom from Religion Found., Inc. - Reply (Petition)
		Given the unique constitutional and historical pedigree of that concern, the Court held that an individual's claim that "his tax money is being ex tracted and spent in violation of [that] specific constitu tional protection[] against such abuses of legislative power" could satisfy the individualized-injury require ment for Article III standing.
		When the court of appeals in this case abandoned that nexus to the disbursement of funds-the extraction and spending of funds to aid religious groups-it elimi nated the existence of a cognizable Article III injury in its taxpayer standing cases.
		The court of appeals thus transformed Flast from an exceptional determination that Article III is satisfied when taxpayers challenge Congress's use of its taxing and spending power to disburse funds to outside groups into a wholesale exception to Article III.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/2006/2pet/7pet/2006-0157.pet.rep.html (2194 words)

	Awards
		An award celebrating “plain speaking” on the shortcomings of religion by public figures was inaugurated by the Freedom From Religion Foundation in 1999.
		The Freethinker of the Year award is presented annually by the Freedom From Religion Foundation to recognize defenders of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state.
		The Freedom From Religion Foundation, to recognize the special contributions of women to freethought and the battle to keep state and church separate, bestows a "Freethought Heroine Award" at many of its national conventions.
	ffrf.org /awards (237 words)

	Charity Navigator Rating - Freedom from Religion Foundation
		The Freedom from Religion Foundation is a national association of nontheists working since 1978 to promote freethought and defend the constitutional principle of the separation of state and church.
		The Foundation acts on countless violations of separation of state and church on behalf of members and the public, including: prayers in public schools, payment of public funds for religious purposes, government funding of pervasively sectarian institutions, and the ongoing campaign against civil rights for women, gays and lesbians led by churches.
		The Foundation keeps several challenges in the courts at all times, and has ended a variety of violations of the First Amendment.
	www.charitynavigator.org /index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/7003.htm (250 words)

	Van Orden Amicus Brief
		The Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. (the "FFRF") is a non-profit educational group whose two primary purposes are to promote the constitutional principle of separation of state and church and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.
		Although the FFRF is committed to nontheism and religious skepticism, it has on occasion worked with religious groups who share the FFRF's objections to the governmental endorsement of religion.
		The FFRF sued the city on behalf of twenty-two area residents, including both the religious and the non-religious, alleging that the display of the monument and the attempted sale of the land violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
	www.alliancealert.org /2005/commandments/vanorden/ffreligion.htm (6578 words)

	Religious Liberty Archive : Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons LLP, Colorado Springs, CO
		The plaintiffs argue that this funding constitutes an establishment of religion, in violation of the Constitution.
		If recommending a religious institution constituted an establishment of religion, a public school guidance counselor could not recommend that a student apply to a Catholic college even if the counselor thought that the particular college would be the best choice for the particular student.
		4 It is a misunderstanding of freedom* (another paradox, given the name of the principal plaintiff) to suppose that choice is not free when the objects between which the chooser must choose are not equally attractive to him.
	www.churchstatelaw.com /cases/Freedom.asp (1667 words)

	Church of Scientology - The Foundation for Religious Freedom
		Scientology, one of the genuinely new religions to originate in the United States in the twentieth century, was founded by L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986).
		The Church of Scientology believes "that Man is basically good, that he is seeking to survive, [and] that his survival depends on himself and upon his fellows and his attainment of brotherhood with the universe" (from Church of Scientology's statement of beliefs).
		The religion continued to grow during the 1950s and 1960s, and many more churches were founded around the world.
	www.forf.org /news/2004/scientology.html (1119 words)

	Freedom of religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Freedom of religion includes the freedom not to follow any religion (irreligion) and not to believe in any god (atheism or agnosticism).
		Freedom of religion as a legal concept is related to but not identical with religious toleration, separation of church and state, or laïcité (a secular state).
		Freedom of worship in India was encapsulated in an inscription of Asoka:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freedom_of_religion (3628 words)

	Roundtable Legal Update-Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc, (and others) vs. Montana Office of Rural Health (and ...
		Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc., an organization devoted to church-state separation, along with several Montana taxpayers, challenged the administration of state and federal funds by MORH as a violation of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.
		Young is a deeply religious man who had shown himself in his writing and communications to be a committed believer in the idea that religious beliefs and practices are positively correlated with good health outcomes.
		This preferential treatment of parish nursing as a health care method violates the government's responsibility to allocate aid based on secular, neutral criteria that neither favor nor disfavor religious entities, and adds to the government's responsibility for the indoctrination that its funds are supporting.
	www.religionandsocialpolicy.org /legal/legal_update_display.cfm?id=30 (1968 words)

	Townhall.com::Freedom from Religion Foundation Challenges Faith-Based Office at Supreme Court::By Jay Sekulow
		The Freedom from Religion Foundation is an atheistic group whose primary goal is to remove religious references and acknowledgments throughout the country.
		The Foundation contends that the White House officials violated the Establishment Clause by organizing national and regional conferences at which the faith-based organizations were brought in to discuss how they can meet the social needs of their community.
		The Foundation went on to allege that the use of federal monies for the faith-based initiative violates the Establishment Clause.
	www.townhall.com /Columnists/Column.aspx?ContentGuid=8cbb37b5-ae50-4f76-ad03-60b70e9397d2 (926 words)

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		Reinders, a member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. ("FFRF"), stated that he avoids using the park because of the statue's presence.
		Reinders and FFRF appeal, claiming that the district court erred in determining that the sale did not constitute a government endorsement of religion and that the Fund does not create a perceived endorsement of religion by maintaining the statue in a manner that constitutes a traditionally public function.
		Appellants Reinders and FFRF maintain that this sale was a "sweetheart deal," a sham transaction concocted to circumvent the government action requirement of the Establishment Clause.
	1stam.umn.edu /archive/fedctapp/freedom-from-religion.txt (4531 words)

	Roundtable Legal Update-Freedom from Religion Foundation, Inc. (and others) v. Jim Towey, Director of White House ...
		Despite the Supreme Court's recent dismissal on standing grounds of Michael Newdow's suit regarding recitals in public school of the Pledge of Allegiance, the law of standing in Establishment Clause cases tends to be very favorable to plaintiffs.
		Here, plaintiffs have alleged that FFRF is an organization devoted to protecting church-state separation, and that it has 5000 members devoted to that principle.
		It was on this very ground that the Freedom from Religion Foundation, in the same district court, had failed in a facial challenge to the Charitable Choice provisions of the 1996 law reforming the federal welfare system.
	www.socialpolicyandreligion.org /legal/legal_update_display.cfm?id=31 (1512 words)

	Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation
		Gaylor, Barker and Anne Gaylor, Foundation president emerita, are the taxpayer plaintiffs in the Foundation's lawsuit challenging the creation of the offices of faith-based initiatives at the White House and Cabinets.
		The Foundation brief documents the tens of millions of dollars which have gone to the faith-based offices, often with direct Congressional oversight.
		The Freedom From Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wis., is a national association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics) that has been working since 1978 to keep church and state separate.
	ffrf.org /legal/hein_supremecourt07 (1387 words)

	Lexington Herald-Leader \| 10/07/2006 \| Atheists draw new generation
		National membership in the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a group of atheists and agnostics that monitors the separation of church and state, grew from 5,000 in 2004 to 6,400 by the beginning of 2006, said co-founder Annie Laurie Gaylor.
		The Freedom From Religion Foundation has brought 30 First Amendment lawsuits since 1977 and has more percolating through the courts.
		The watchdog organization Freedom From Religion Foundation has sued over violations of the church-state clause 30 times since 1977.
	www.kentucky.com /mld/kentucky/living/religion/15682280.htm (654 words)

	Freedom From Religion Foundation - nV News Forums
		They had no problem with the promotion of religion except for I believe it was John Adams but as most of you know John Adams and Jefferson hated each other with a passion.
		It's not a Christian's flagrant disregard for the system, it's their flagrant disregard for freedom of religion under the veil of "neutralism".
		It's not the religion's fault, it's the asshole "morally superior" soccer mom bitches who think they should be telling everyone what is OK and when it's OK to do it.
	www.nvnews.net /vbulletin/showthread.php?p=491605 (1072 words)

	Atheists In Foxholes Monument
		The Freedom From Religion Foundation erected its monument to "Atheists in Foxholes" in 1999 at Lake Hypatia, Alabama.
		Foundation president Anne Nicol Gaylor originally proposed an "Atheists in Foxholes" monument to replace a cross on public property in San Diego.
		Pat Cleveland invited the Foundation to erect its own monument on land donated by the Cleveland family in rural Alabama, as part of a freethought park.
	ffrf.org /foxholes (476 words)

	freedomforum.org: Utah city again challenged over Ten Commandments display
		The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a nonprofit group based in Madison, Wis., filed the first challenge seeking the removal of a Ten Commandments monolith from the Ogden city-county courthouse grounds.
		Brian Barnard, a Salt Lake City attorney who is representing both the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Summum in their legal challenges against Ogden, told freedomforum.org that if the Ten Commandments monument were removed, then the Summum would drop its crusade to have its religious beliefs displayed in front of the Ogden building.
		"Plaintiffs rigid, absolutists view of the Establishment Clause is hostile to religion and is contrary to the framers' intent, the Country's tradition and culture, the monument's historical, cultural and secular significance, and the longstanding constitutional interpretation," Ogden attorneys argued in their motion before the district court.
	www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentid=8581 (871 words)

	Freedom From Religion Foundation Inc v. Elaine Chao - Project Posner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		If the conferences at issue in this case are, as the plaintiffs charge, intended to promote religion, the fact that their cost is slight relative to the budgets of the various departments that sponsor them does not make that cost incidental.
		So while it is true that the executive branch would quickly grind to a halt without general budget appropriations from Congress, our analysis, tracking Kendrick, would not permit an individual citizen to challenge just any action of the executive with which he disagrees as a violation of the establishment clause.
		We therefore vacate the judgment and remand the case for a determination of the merits of those claims that we have determined the plaintiffs have standing to litigate.
	www.projectposner.org /case/2006/433F3d989 (3169 words)

	Nicholas Johnson, First Amendment: Freedom For Religion
		The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which recently stopped a violation in the local schools on behalf of one of our Iowa City members, has received many nasty e-mails from residents of Iowa City.
		Annie Laurie Gaylor is co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, www.ffrf.org.
		Given the local public outcry over the FFRF complaint, it is also easy to imagine any dissenters on the team or within the school keeping quiet about their opposition to the donation.
	www.nicholasjohnson.org /politics/education/njpc0429.html (4554 words)

	NJHN Web Talk
		The fact that the Foundation has not alleged coercion "is not fatal to plaintiffs' claims," Shabaz wrote, because direct governmental compulsion is not necessary for an Establishment Clause violation.
		The case is Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc., Anne Nicol Gaylor, Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker v.
		The Freedom From Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wis., is a national association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics) that has been working since 1978 to keep church and state separate.
	www.njhn.org /weblog/2006/09/freedom-from-religion-foundation-news.html (468 words)

	Join FFRF
		Most important, your membership supports the Foundation's lawsuits, publications, and other activities to keep state and church separate and to educate the public about the views of nontheists.
		We invite you at this perilous time for the future of separation of church and state to join the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc., which has been working nationally and effectively since 1978 to promote freethought and to keep state and church separate.
		Members are also eligible to receive courtesy e-mails of FFRF news releases, action alerts and the online Freethought of the Day, an impressive introduction to prominent freethinkers and their views.
	ffrf.org /membership (723 words)

	Freedom of Religion Links
		Mission it to protect fundamental constitutional freedoms and American democratic institutions, particularly the civil and religious rights and liberties of all Americans and the separation of church and state.
		Founded as a think tank and advocacy organization to study and understand the relationship of religion, ethics and morality to public policy, government, culture and politics in both the international and domestic arenas.
		Promotes the positive and healing role of religion in public life through encouraging civic participation, facilitating community activism and challenging religious political extremism.
	www.illinoisfirstamendmentcenter.com /links_free_religion.php (375 words)

	Make a donation to FFRF
		Donations to the Freedom From Religion Foundation are joyfully received.
		Your membership supports the Foundation's lawsuits, publications, and other activities to keep state and church separate and to educate the public about the views of nontheists.
		In the Pension Protection Act of 2006 passed by Congress, taxpayers age 70 1/2 or older are given an alternate way to donate to tax-deductible charities, such as the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
	ffrf.org /donate (291 words)

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