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MILITANT ATHEISM: LEGAL SUCCESSES AND LOSSES

      Militant Atheists are determined, focused and well funded. Most battles they have engaged America in have been won. This has emboldened and energized them. Their successes will continue, unless believers join forces to stop their unrelenting attacks.

ONE ATHEIST WOMAN TRANSFORMED AMERICA 

    The most momentous first achievement by militant atheists has been the removal of Bible readings and prayer recitations from American public schools. The litigant was Madalyn O'Hair, founder of  the "American Atheists" organization.

                                 "FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION"

The FFRF is unrelenting in its mission to free America of Religion. They consistently manipulate the Constitution as their weapon of choice. As their web site promulgates, they have been brutally successful and have no intention of stopping their obsessive pursuit.

MAJOR SUCCESSES

• Winning the first federal lawsuit challenging direct funding by the government of a faith-based agency
• Overturning a state Good Friday holiday
• Winning a lawsuit barring direct taxpayer subsidy of religious schools
• Removing Ten Commandments monuments and crosses from public land
• Halting the Post Office from issuing religious cancellations
• Ending 51 years of legal bible instruction in public schools

Foundation complaints have:

• Halted prayer at public institutions, and public financing of nativity pageants and Easter service
• Stopped direct subsidy to religious schools
• Stopped Job Corps trainees from being assigned to work on a Catholic shrine
• Ended a 122-year abuse of commencement prayers at a Top Ten University
• Declared unconstitutional the creation of a state post to "assist clergy"

<http://www.ffrf.org/legal/> (18 February, 2009)

OTHER SUCCESSES

- University Graduation Invocations Ended at Top Ten University
- Prayers Stopped at Public Institutions
- Public Sponsorship of Nativity Pageant Halted
- Crosses Downed from Public Land
- Abuse by Preacher Exposed
- City Sponsorship of Knights of Columbus Signs Ended
- Ethics Probe Called for Preaching Governor
- Proselytizing Crossing Guard Fired
- Post Office/Catholic Entanglement Ended
- De Facto Sports Chaplaincy Stopped
- School Boy Scout Subsidy Stopped
- Bible Proclamation Rescinded
- Illegal Public Help Halted for "Our Lady of the Rockies"
- Creationism Removed from City Zoo
- Discount for Catholics Ended
- Red Rocks Easter Service Subsidy Ended
- Nativity Scene Moved Off Government Land
- Ten Commandments Monuments Moved from Public Property
- Religion Removed at Playground

<http://www.ffrf.org/legal/legal4.php> (18 February, 2009)

RECENT COURT CASES

- FFRF Challenges School Child Evangelism Subsidy
- FFRF Files Suit Against Green Bay Creche
- FFRF Challenges "Under God" in Pledge in New Hampshire Schools
    with New Hampshire family & Mike Newdow
- FFRF Challenges Public School's Promotion of Religious Activity
- FFRF Wins Challenge of "Chaplaincy" for Indiana Family & Social Services
- FFRF v. Gonzales : FFRF Sues Federal Bureau of Prisons over Faith-based Prison Programs
- FFRF Sues Veteran Affairs Department Over Religion
- FFRF Sues Over Bush's Offices of Faith-based Initiatives
    Hein v. FFRF
    Challenges Emory Grant
    Challenges Funding of MentorKids
- FFRF Halts University of Minnesota "Faith/Health" Entanglement
- FFRF Challenges New Mexico Faith-based Prison Program
- FFRF Stops Dept. of Education Grant to Bible College
- FFRF Wins "Scopes II"
- FFRF Wins Ten Commandments Case
- FFRF Wins Montana Faith-based Challenge
- FFRF Wins First Faith-based Challenge
- FFRF Wins Against Direct Funds to Parochial Schools
- FFRF Wins Lawsuit: Post to "Assist Clergy" Unconstitutional
- FFRF Lawsuit: Jesus Statue in Public Park Sold, Fenced
- FFRF Lawsuit: Pope Monument in Park Modified
- FFRF Wins Good Friday State Holiday Challenge

<http://www.ffrf.org/legal/legal2.php> (18 February, 2009)

"FFRF": OTHER COURT CHALLENGES

• Gaylor v. Risser

• Year of the Bible Challenged

• Round One; Ten Commandments

• Illinois Chapel Litigated

• Ten Commandments Suit in Denver

• In God We Don't Trust

• Money to Enhance Catholic Seminary

• Challenges Creche in Waunakee Park

• A Banner Case

• Christian County Sued

<http://www.ffrf.org/legal/legal5.php> (18 February, 2009)

"FREEDOM FROM RELIGION" LOSSES

• Challenged a Congressional proclamation calling 1983 "The Year of the Bible" (dismissed as moot)
• Challenged a Ten Commandments monument in a public park in La Crosse, Wisconsin (dismissed)
• Filed a federal lawsuit to stop the building of a chapel at the Illinois statehouse (lost in appeals court)
• Went to Colorado state court to remove a Ten Commandments monument on Capitol grounds in Denver (lost in State Supreme Court)
• Challenged "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency in Colorado (lost in 10th Circuit Court)
• Tried to block the state of Wisconsin from granting $100,000 to assist building a center at St. Norbert Catholic College, DePere, Wisconsin (lost in appeals court)
• Challenged a lighted nativity scene in a public park in Waunakee, Wisconsin (lost in Wisconsin Supreme Court)
• Sued over the removal of its banner, "State/Church: Keep Them Separate," from the rotunda of the Wisconsin State Capitol (lost in federal court)
• Went to federal court in Missouri to sue over the phrase "So help me, God" on tax forms (case was dismissed, then was lost after re-filing).

"Freedom From Religion Foundation," Wikipedia. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_From_Religion_Foundation> (21 Jan. 2007).

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