Hecht is an honorary board member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation where she told the FFRF 2009 convention audience: “ If there is no god — and there isn't — then we made up morality.

The Seventh Circuit later ruled against FFRF on the narrower of whether or not prisoners joining specific faith based programs on their own free will or are coerced by the government endorsement of religion.

FFRF has held conventions since 1977, one year after the group formed and one year prior to their official incorporation.

After the government decided the nativity scene would remain, FFRF petitioned to have a banner placed on the square near the nativity scene, but a decision to consider the request was not heard before Christmas.

The FFRF describes the award as " celebrating ' plain speaking ' on the shortcomings of religion by public figures ".

The FFRF was co-founded by Anne Nicol Gaylor and her daughter, Annie Laurie Gaylor, in 1976 and was incorporated nationally in 1978.

* FFRF v. HHS-In lawsuit ending in January 2005, a court vacated HHS's funding of a Christian organization, MentorKids, because the " federal funds have been used by the MentorKids program to advance religion in violation of the Establishment Clause.

* FFRF v. U. S. Department of Education-In April 2005, FFRF and the USDOE settled a lawsuit, with the USDOE agreeing not to distribute $ 435, 000 of federal funds to the Alaska Christian College, a Bible college run by the Evangelical Covenant Church of Alaska.

* FFRF v. Department of Veterans Affairs-April 19, 2006 challenge of the pervasive integration of " spirituality " into health care by the Department of Veteran Affairs was stayed while the Supreme Court considered the Hein case and dismissed after Hein was decided for lack of standing.

It is hosted by the co-presidents of FFRF, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.

The conventions typically include speakers, awards, “ NonPrayer Breakfasts " with " moments of bedlam ," and piano music by FFRF Co-President Dan Barker.

* FFRF v. City of Green Bay-In December 2007, FFRF challenged a nativity scene at Green Bay's city hall.

* FFRF v. Thompson-In February 1996, a federal district court ruled that Wisconsin's Good Friday holiday was a First Amendment violation because it's sole purpose " was the promotion of religion.

* FFRF v. Faith Works – In January 2002, a federal district court decided that Faith Works, a faith-based addiction treatment program, was receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in public money in violation of the Establishment Clause.

* FFRF v. Montana Faith-Health Cooperative-In October 2004, the Federal District Court for the District of Montana held that the state's " direct and preferential funding of inherently and pervasively religious parish nursing programs was undertaken for the impermissible purpose, and has the impermissible effect, of favoring and advancing the integration of religion into the provision of secular health care services.

After FFRF wrote three initial letters, but before the lawsuit was filed, the town removed one arm of the cross.

* In April 2011, the U. S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed FFRF's challenge to the National Day of Prayer holding that FFRF did not have standing to challenge the NDoP statute or proclamations and that only the President was injured enough to challenge the NDoP statute.

As a result of the letter from FFRF, a rally was held at the Henderson County Courthouse where an estimated 5, 000 people attended.

* FFRF v. Rhea County Schools (" Scopes II ")-This litigation occurred in the same place as the famous Scopes Trial, hence the nickname Scopes II.

* Doe v. School Board of Giles County, VA-In September 2011, FFRF and the ACLU brought suit on behalf of anonymous plaintiffs against Giles County challenging a Ten Commandments display at Narrows High School.

Her husband, Dan Barker, author of Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist ( ISBN 1-877733-07-5 ), Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America ’ s Leading Atheists ( ISBN 1569756775 ), The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God ( ISBN 1569758468 ), and Just Pretend: A Freethought Book for Children, is a musician and songwriter, a former Pentecostal Christian minister, and co-president of the FFRF.

* FFRF v. Indiana Family & Social Services-May 2, 2007 challenge of the creation of a chaplaincy for the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration ( FSSA ).

On December 23, 2009, William J. Kelly, conservative activist and candidate for Illinois Comptroller, attempted to remove a FFRF sign at a holiday display.

FFRF is concerned about the government's respect for the separation of church and state, which the court intends to address.

* FFRF v. Town of Whiteville, TN-In August 2012, FFRF and the town settled the FFRF lawsuit challenging a Latin cross displayed on top of the town's water tower.

According to the 2011 IRS tax Form-990, FFRF spent just over $ 200, 000 on legal fees and services and just under $ 1 million on education, outreach, publishing, broadcasting, and events.

of Minnesota-In September 2005, the University of Minnesota agreed to cease its partnership with the " Minnesota Faith Health Consortium, a partnership with Luther Seminary, which is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, and Fairview Health Services ," and to cease teaching " courses on the intersection of faith and health " and FFRF agreed to drop its lawsuit on those same issues.

* FFRF has asked the city of Woonsocket, Rhode Island to remove a the Latin cross from a World War 1 and 2 memorial on public land.

It is also featured on bookmarks in the FFRF shop.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation ( FFRF ) uses the pansy symbol extensively in its lapel pins and literature.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation ( FFRF ) is a national, non-profit organization based in Madison, Wisconsin, with members from all 50 states.

The FFRF publishes the newspaper Freethought Today.

FFRF also has a paid staff of twelve, including four full-time staff attorneys.

She edited the FFRF newspaper Freethought Today until July, 2008.

The man was an ox and he put up a creditable struggle ; ;

He does not know whether to look up or look aside, to put his hands in his pockets or to clench them at his side, to cross the street, or to continue on the same side.

Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

Lewis, at the head of the table, would leap up and move around behind the chairs of his guests making remarks that, when not highly offensive, were at least highly inappropriate, and then presently he collapsed and was put to bed.

In the interim between now and next year, we trust the House and Senate will put their minds to studying Georgia's very real economic, fiscal and social problems and come up with answers without all the political heroics.

And one of the best services available to the people who try to raise and can meat, to plant, grow vegetables and put them up.

Thus, when the Russians sent up their first sputnik, American chagrin was human enough, and American determination to put American satellites into orbit was perfectly understandable.

What I have to put up with!!

Had to put my foot on it to hole it down while I cut it up fer the lob-scuse ''.

When Linda Kay had put up her breakfast dishes and mopped her linoleum rugs, she would go to the Big House.

but they were going up to the Big House after supper, and she had to put on a clean dress and fix her hair a little.

Draw-file the edges, square up the ends and put a slight chamfer on the edges so they will not snag in the frame.

We found that three men -- two carpenters and a helper -- can put up wall panels or trusses more economically than four men -- because four men don't make two teams ; ;

Perhaps he had better have someone help him put up the pegboard and build the workbench -- someone who knew what he was about.

We are abstracting from the fact of strikes here, but it should be obvious that the extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is also a function of the show of resistance put up by the industry.

or, to put the same thing in physiological terms, that the performance-capacity of the tactual apparatus, from the periphery up to the tactual centers in the brain, -- that is, from one end to the other -- was unimpaired ''.

Noticing Russell's horse in front of the long log building, he assumed his friend had slipped inside and would be able to put up a good fight, so he began working his way down the ditch to join him.

It was decided to strip the whole area down to the bricks, and to replace the rough coats up to one inch thickness to agree with the older artists' preparation, with a mortar, one part slaked lime, three parts sand, to be put on in two layers.

Old Mr. Pocket's frantic response to life imprisonment with a useless, social-climbing wife is to `` put his two hands into his disturbed hair '' and `` make an extraordinary effort to lift himself up by it '', whereas Joe Gargery endures the shrewish onslaughts of Mrs. Joe by apologetically drawing `` the back of his hand across and across his nose ''.

They love to dust, scrub, polish, wax floors, move the furniture around from place to place, take down the curtains, put up new ones and have themselves a real ball.

One manufacturer who held an allegedly basic patent said: `` I would readily put over $50,000 into the manufacture of the device, but it is so easy to make that we would enter immediately into a prolonged ordeal of patent litigation which would eat up all our profits ''.

`` If you expect her to show up '', she said, `` you'd better put ' and wife ' on there.

This is awkward for everybody, isn't it, we all got to put up with inconvenience sometimes.