The Freedom From Religion Foundation rakes in over $100,000 in donations, all in the name of vice president Mike Pence.

Wait, what's happening?

Courtesy of FFRF: 

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is delighted to announce that it has received a $100,000-plus boost to its legal fund via donations in Vice President Mike Pence's name. FFRF began its "Give dollars and cents to counteract Pence" campaign in early November and, as of March 31, has raised $104,829. 

FFRF is a state/church watchdog with more than 27,000 largely freethinking (atheist and agnostic) members. 

"We warmly thank the 1,905 donors to date who have given from $1 to $5,000," says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. 

FFRF's ongoing campaign urges: 

"Send a message to Mike Pence and his boss: The only wall we need is between church and state. Your gift to FFRF's legal fund in Mike Pence's name will be subversive (and deductible for income tax purposes). We'll use your kind donation to fight the imposition of religion by our government under the guise of 'religious liberty.' We'll put your donation to work to shore up the fence Pence needs to honor: the wall of separation between state and church." 

 And FFRF is right to keep the focus on Mike Pence, because if we actually do see Trump impeached this Bible thumping, woman hating, pig will be our new president. 

You also might remember that Planned Parenthood also experienced a rush of donations in Pence's name back in November of 2016.

Gee look, Mike Pence IS good for something after all.

Just in time for the holidays.

 Courtesy of the Freedom From Religion Foundation:

The Freedom From Religion Foundation's Winter Solstice sign has just returned to the Illinois State Capitol for its seventh display. 

"This sign is a reminder of the real reason for the season, the Winter Solstice," says Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF co-president, which is the shortest and darkest day of the year, and takes place on Dec. 22 this year. The natural holiday heralds the rebirth of the sun and the natural new year, and has been celebrated for millennia in the Northern Hemisphere with festivals of light, evergreens, feasts and gift exchanges. 

"We nonbelievers don't mind sharing the season with Christians," Gaylor adds, "we just don't like the pretense that it's about a supernatural birth of a god." 

An engraved sign with the same wording has been erected by the Foundation for 20 Decembers in a row at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wis. 

Should fit quite nicely next to the Christian Nativity, the Jewish Menorah, and the Kwanzaa Bendera ya Taifa. 

(Hat tip to The Friendly Atheist.)

Handed out in a public elementary school in the Ohio.

Source

If you go to the source you will see that the parent has already contacted the Freedom from Religion Foundation and those folks don't play around.

Hard to believe this is still happening in this day and age, but there you have it.

Things will not change unless people stand up and force them to change.

Apparently Jesus is like a Wal-Mart greeter for Hawkins, Texas.

Courtesy of Politicususa

Speaking for Jesus? Isn't that what the whole "Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain" is talking about?

Well it might not anger Jesus, most likely because he is a mythical creation, but it did upset the FFRF.

This from KMOO: 

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has sent a letter to an East Texas City Council requesting they remove a sign posted on city property. 

The group states in its letter that the “Jesus Welcomes You to Hawkins’ sign posted on East Front Street is an unconstitutional religious display. 

The letter states, “The Jesus Welcomes You to Hawkins’ sign sends a message to the City’s citizens that the Hawkins government is endorsing and compelling a belief in a particular god. By endorsing such a belief, the sign sends the message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored numbers…” 

The letter ended by requesting the City Council to reply back with a plan for how to proceed.

However the mayor of Hawkins says that the creation of the sign was a "community project" and thinks the community should fight to keep it up.

And the mayor thinks you should show your support even if you are NOT a Christian, because Jesus was a good guy:

“Citizens should voice their support,” Rogers said. “Even if you don’t look at Jesus as a religious leader, you have the humanitarian aspects of his life while he was here to consider.”

You see they just like Jesus for being Jesus, they don't want him featured prominently on their sign to indicate any kind of religious preference in their town.

Yeah, right.

Navy has instructed housekeeping to remove all Gideon Bibles from hotel rooms on their bases. Sarah Palin rant in 3..2..oh never mind it will be on her pay-per-bitch channel so we don't have to watch it.

Courtesy of Canada Free Press:  

The U.S. Navy has instructed housekeepers to remove Gideon-placed Bibles from every hotel room on its military bases after it received a letter from the atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF). 

“We were told today, June 23, 2014, that due to a new policy by the CEO of NEXCOM, Rear Admiral Robert J. Bianchi, we were to remove the Bibles from the rooms,” a housekeeper told AFA in an email. “They told us to put them in boxes, where they would be taken to a donation center somewhere.” 

NEXCOM (Navy Exchange Service Command) issued the directive to bases offering hotel accommodations, ordering them to impound Bibles from 34 Navy Lodge locations and 24,000 Navy Gateway Inns & Suites guest rooms on Navy bases worldwide. 

The directive orders lodge managers to contact base commanders and Chaplains and facilitate removing the Bibles and other “religious material currently in the guest rooms.”

Apparently the Navy attempted this back in 2012, but after public outcry they caved and put them back.

So  let's see if we have progressed enough to make it stick this time.

My favorite story about bibles in hotel rooms is the one told by actor Ian McKellen who tears Leviticus 18:22 out of every bible he finds in his hotel room.

Good for him.

Ron Reagan's new FFRF advertisement.

Apparently this ad will be run on Comedy Central during the Daily Show and Colbert Show on May 22nd.

It is the video version of a radio ad that started playing back in November of last year.

Here is an interesting quote from Reagan that I had never heard before: 

Famously asked by The New York Times three weeks after President Reagan died whether he’d like to be president, Ron replied: “I’m unelectable. I’m an atheist. As well all know, that I something people won’t accept.”

Hopefully with more ads like this, and more people coming out as Atheists, the religious litmus test for political office will no longer be relevant for much longer.

Personally I can hardly wait.