FFRF Metropolitan Chicago Chapter
@ffrfmcc.bsky.social
Official BlueSky account for FFRF MCC - Helping Chicagoland area members work to keep state and church separate. The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national 501 (c)(3) nonprophet nonprofit, with 40,000 nonreligious members. https://www.ffrfmcc.org/
Arlington Heights and Glenview displays to protest religious displays on government property. We don’t want to put these up! However we will keep doing it as long as religious followers have displays. Happy Solstice!
December 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Arlington Heights and Glenview displays to protest religious displays on government property. We don’t want to put these up! However we will keep doing it as long as religious followers have displays. Happy Solstice!
Sunday 12/21 marks the Winter Solstice, and the reason for the season! Happy Solstice and here’s to brighter days ahead!
December 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Sunday 12/21 marks the Winter Solstice, and the reason for the season! Happy Solstice and here’s to brighter days ahead!
Chicago, we need your help! Rights are being infringed daily. Please consider joining #ffrf and the Chicago chapter. We are looking to do big things soon and we need members for that. Don’t let the government take away your constitutional (not god given) rights.
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Chicago, we need your help! Rights are being infringed daily. Please consider joining #ffrf and the Chicago chapter. We are looking to do big things soon and we need members for that. Don’t let the government take away your constitutional (not god given) rights.
Happy day!
Ryan Walters is resigning. Good riddance.
Oklahoma's Christian Nationalist superintendent is leaving public schools behind… to lead a group dedicated to destroying teachers’ unions.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...
Oklahoma's Christian Nationalist superintendent is leaving public schools behind… to lead a group dedicated to destroying teachers’ unions.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...
Ryan Walters is resigning, ending his disastrous reign over Oklahoma's public schools
The far-right superintendent of public schools will soon lead a right-wing group that fights teachers' unions
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September 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Happy day!
Some good news!
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has temporarily blocked Ryan Walters' Jesus-first social studies standards from going into effect.
Thank goodness. Students deserve history, not propaganda.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahomas-...
Thank goodness. Students deserve history, not propaganda.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahomas-...
Oklahoma's Supreme Court blocks Ryan Walters' Bible-heavy Social Studies standards
The judges temporarily halted a Christian Nationalist curriculum that downplays systemic racism, spreads election lies, and pretends the Bible is history
www.friendlyatheist.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Some good news!
It’s getting rough out there. Stay safe, secular friends.
September 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
It’s getting rough out there. Stay safe, secular friends.
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Minnesota’s law was a common-sense safeguard ensuring that taxpayer dollars are not used to exclude or stigmatize young people.
This decision sends the wrong message — that religious schools can impose discriminatory litmus tests while benefiting from public money.
This decision sends the wrong message — that religious schools can impose discriminatory litmus tests while benefiting from public money.
Minnesota’s PSEO program saves high school students thousands in college tuition.
A recent law said participating schools can't require those kids to sign anti-LGBTQ "faith" statements.
Two schools sued. A Trump-appointed judge just handed them a win.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/federal-ju...
A recent law said participating schools can't require those kids to sign anti-LGBTQ "faith" statements.
Two schools sued. A Trump-appointed judge just handed them a win.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/federal-ju...
Federal judge strikes down Minnesota's sensible "faith statement" ban for PSEO schools
The ruling lets Christian schools take taxpayer dollars despite making high schoolers sign bigoted religious statements if they want college credit
www.friendlyatheist.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Minnesota’s law was a common-sense safeguard ensuring that taxpayer dollars are not used to exclude or stigmatize young people.
This decision sends the wrong message — that religious schools can impose discriminatory litmus tests while benefiting from public money.
This decision sends the wrong message — that religious schools can impose discriminatory litmus tests while benefiting from public money.
Hear, Hear!
Blasphemy laws always put 'religious feelings' above freedom of expression. If a T-shirt offends you, don’t wear it. There is no right not to be offended. And you cannot 'offend' a religion – only people. Blasphemy laws = fundamentality flawed tools of oppression.
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Woman threatened with jail over ‘Allah is lesbian’ T-shirt
LGBT rights campaigner Ibtissame Lachgar detained over accusations of blasphemy and could face years in prison
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hear, Hear!
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The recipe for a strong secular nation is even simpler:
Protect church–state separation.
Defend equal rights.
Uphold science.
Value reason.
Embrace progress.
Reject theocracy.
Protect church–state separation.
Defend equal rights.
Uphold science.
Value reason.
Embrace progress.
Reject theocracy.
August 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The recipe for a strong secular nation is even simpler:
Protect church–state separation.
Defend equal rights.
Uphold science.
Value reason.
Embrace progress.
Reject theocracy.
Protect church–state separation.
Defend equal rights.
Uphold science.
Value reason.
Embrace progress.
Reject theocracy.
Reposted by FFRF Metropolitan Chicago Chapter
A blistering review of Lawrence Krauss’ awful “The War on Science” book from @sarahjones.bsky.social:
“The writers are too caught up in their resentment to acknowledge reality; they do not grasp their own role in the global rise of the illiberal right.”
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“The writers are too caught up in their resentment to acknowledge reality; they do not grasp their own role in the global rise of the illiberal right.”
nymag.com/intelligence...
How the New Atheists Joined the MAHA War on Science
A new anthology showcases the intellectual failures of a diminishing brand.
nymag.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A blistering review of Lawrence Krauss’ awful “The War on Science” book from @sarahjones.bsky.social:
“The writers are too caught up in their resentment to acknowledge reality; they do not grasp their own role in the global rise of the illiberal right.”
nymag.com/intelligence...
“The writers are too caught up in their resentment to acknowledge reality; they do not grasp their own role in the global rise of the illiberal right.”
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Live in England or Wales?
Want to help us end the legal requirement for all state schools to conduct daily acts of worship, and introduce inclusive assemblies for all?
Sign our petition.
humanists.uk/action/inclu...
Want to help us end the legal requirement for all state schools to conduct daily acts of worship, and introduce inclusive assemblies for all?
Sign our petition.
humanists.uk/action/inclu...
Petition: Inclusive assemblies NOT compulsory worship
We're the only country in the world to impose Christian worship as standard in schools. Tell the Government to back inclusive assemblies for all.
humanists.uk
August 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Live in England or Wales?
Want to help us end the legal requirement for all state schools to conduct daily acts of worship, and introduce inclusive assemblies for all?
Sign our petition.
humanists.uk/action/inclu...
Want to help us end the legal requirement for all state schools to conduct daily acts of worship, and introduce inclusive assemblies for all?
Sign our petition.
humanists.uk/action/inclu...
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A federal judge just called Arkansas' Ten Commandments-in-classrooms law "disingenuous," "intellectually dishonest," and "plainly unconstitutional."
He blocked it—but only in a few districts.
This fight is far from over. 👇
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/federal-ju...
He blocked it—but only in a few districts.
This fight is far from over. 👇
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/federal-ju...
Federal judge blocks Arkansas law forcing the Ten Commandments in schools from taking full effect
The judge called the state's attempt to push Christian doctrine into public schools "disingenuous" and "intellectually dishonest"
www.friendlyatheist.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A federal judge just called Arkansas' Ten Commandments-in-classrooms law "disingenuous," "intellectually dishonest," and "plainly unconstitutional."
He blocked it—but only in a few districts.
This fight is far from over. 👇
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/federal-ju...
He blocked it—but only in a few districts.
This fight is far from over. 👇
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/federal-ju...
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Update: WE WON! A federal judge has fully blocked the “defunding” provision targeting care at Planned Parenthood health centers. This means that while this case continues, so does your access to care.
July 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Update: WE WON! A federal judge has fully blocked the “defunding” provision targeting care at Planned Parenthood health centers. This means that while this case continues, so does your access to care.
Late post, but we just got here! Here is our display from the Spring, right before the nationwide protests.
FFRFMCC Returns to Chicago’s Daley Center Plaza to Protest Catholic Intrusion on Government Property
The Freedom From Religion Foundation and its Metropolitan Chicago Chapter returned to Chicago's Daley Center Plaza in Spring 2025, calling for religious institutions to keep their ideology within the ...
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July 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Late post, but we just got here! Here is our display from the Spring, right before the nationwide protests.
@ffrfcincy.bsky.social love the graphic! Any chance you could help with ours? 😀
July 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
@ffrfcincy.bsky.social love the graphic! Any chance you could help with ours? 😀