Despite the tumultuous political year, we are delighted to report that the Freedom From Religion Foundation is thriving, thanks to you and our community of about 42,000 committed members.
We are attaching our impressive report on FFRF’s accomplishments of our 48th year to date. But please take note: It already needs an update! Just last week, FFRF filed its eleventh lawsuit in the past 12 months, and we’ve won not just three but four cases.
Last week, FFRF filed a significant class action lawsuit to stop the crusade to force the Ten Commandments into every Texas classroom. Even though two federal judges have ruled that the Texas law ordering the displays is unconstitutional, Attorney General Ken Paxton is threatening to sue school districts that are abiding by the Constitution by not posting the biblical edicts. We’ve already sued a number of school districts, but since Texas has 1,200 school districts, a class action lawsuit is an effective way to challenge Paxton. We’re proud to represent 18 nonreligious and multifaith families in our newest lawsuit.
Also last week, FFRF successfully ended a lawsuit challenging a scheme to spend six million tax dollars to put Christian bibles into Oklahoma schools! A judge just threw out that case as moot — because Ryan Walters, the notorious former superintendent, has resigned, and the new superintendent has agreed not to pursue this outrageously unconstitutional action.
Giving an end-of-the-year gift to FFRF is one way you can fight back against the unprecedented assaults against our First Amendment’s principle of separation between state and church. You can be assured that your donation to FFRF, which has a four-star rating from Charity Navigator, will go to work to effectively guard the embattled wall of separation between government and religion. Without that wall, all rights and our democracy itself are in jeopardy.
Freedom depends on you — and other freethinkers. To make a donation, deductible for income tax purposes, click here. If you are not currently a member, please join here.
Gratefully,
Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor
Co-Presidents
Freedom from Religion Foundation
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