Freedom From Religion Foundation

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a Freethought organization based in Madison, Wisconsin. Its purposes, as stated in its bylaws, are to promote the constitutional principle of separation of church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism. The FFRF publishes Freethought Today, the only freethought newspaper in the United States. The organization engages in public interest lawsuits.

Important legal outcomes include:

• Winning the first federal lawsuit challenging direct funding by the government of a faith-based agency
• Overturning a state Good Friday holiday - plaintiffs included Foundation staff and state employees.
• Winning a lawsuit barring direct taxpayer subsidy of religious schools
• Removing Ten Commandments monuments and crosses from public land
• Ending the Post Office from issuing religious cancellations
• Ending illegal Bible instruction in public schools