A group of anti-Christianists have forced the removal of a nativity scene that had been placed in front of a North Carolina courthouse for over 40 years.
The virulent anti-Christian organization Freedom From Religion Foundation, which is not located in Dallas, North Carolina, complained that because the nativity was on government property the town owned it.
The nativity scene was moved to a local auto shop amid complaints from residents that the out of town anti-Christianists shouldn’t be forcing the community to go against their values and standards.
The Christian-hating organization also complained about a nativity scene in Jay, Florida. The city declared it “surplus property” and sold it so a private group could display it.
“The majority of the folks have been very supportive in understanding that there is a reason we moved it from City Hall to downtown. Actually, now that it’s downtown, it is more visible to the public than it was right here at city hall,” Jay Mayor Kurvin Qualls said, according to WEAR-TV.
The city estimated the costs to fight the anti-Christian group in court would be around $100,000.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is at it again.
The group has threatened the town of Piedmont, Alabama over their Christmas parade.
The town had decided they wanted the parade’s theme to revolve around the true “reason for the season” and selected “Keep Christ In Christmas” as the parade’s theme. Immediately, the Christian-hating group fired off a letter to the mayor of the town claiming some unnamed resident complained about the theme.
The FFRF routinely claims unidentified people complain about things so they can advance their campaign to remove Christians from society.
The city had renamed their theme after the threat from the Christian-haters but residents participating in the parade took it upon themselves to proclaim Christ multiple times throughout the parade.
“If we stick together like this, all the good Christian people will stick together and lift up the name of Jesus Christ, and not let these athiests and the non-believers scare us like they do, it will be a better world,” attendee Harold Martin said.
“This anti-religious group that started all this stuff, I really believe this has backfired on them,” Mayor Baker said. “What has happened now is the city of Piedmont, great city to live in, great people, has rallied. They have caused our parade to be bigger and better with more emphasis placed on Christianity.”
The city reported the largest attendance ever for a Christmas parade.
Two anti-Christian organizations have singled out a professor at Georgia Southern University, claiming that he is “preaching” in his classroom.
The virulent anti-Christian group Freedom from Religion Foundation and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science sent a letter to the president of the university stating that Professor Emerson Tom McMullen promotes religion.
“McMullen appears to use at least some of his class to preach religion instead of teach history,” the letter reads. “Our reports and information indicate that McMullen (1) is known for injecting religion into his classes, (2) gives extra credit to students willing to endure and describe additional proselytizing, and (3) uses his position at a public university to promote religious beliefs like creationism, while undermining legitimate sciences, like biology.”
The groups hate the fact that McMullen speaks positively about Christianity.
“McMullen not only lowers the reputation and standards of this university, but has created serious constitutional problems,” the groups wrote. “As a public university, GSU is subject to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, which separates state and church. … Creationism cannot be taught as scientific fact in public schools.”
McMullen has an “A” rating from his students and no students had complained about the professor. The University said it is investigating the 24-year veteran teacher because of the anti-Christians targeting him.
The Colorado Supreme Court has thrown a lawsuit out challenging the National Day of Prayer.
The ruling by the court overturns a lower court ruling that a declaration of a day of prayer is unconstitutional.
The anti-Christian group Freedom From Religion Foundation sued in 2008 claiming that then-Governor Bill Ritter was “showing governmental preference for religion” by designating a Day of Prayer. The initial ruling in 2010 was in favor of the state.
“Plaintiffs argue that the proclamations excessively entangle government and religion because it facilitates the Colorado Day of Prayer festivities. In light of the fact that most festivities are planned well in advance of the proclamation’s issuance, this argument is not credible,” wrote Judge Michael Mullins. “Announcing that people will in fact gather to celebrate a public holiday does not necessarily involve the state in any way in the planning of religious activities.”
The anti-Christianists then appealed and the Colorado Court of Appeals overturned the lower court decision.
The Supreme Court threw out the case on a 5-2 decision.
“Although we do not question the sincerity of respondents’ feelings, without more, their circuitous exposure to the honorary proclamations and concomitant belief that the proclamations expressed the Governor’s preference for religion is simply too indirect and incidental an injury to confer individual standing,” wrote Chief Justice Nancy Rice.
“To hold otherwise would render the injury-in-fact requirement superfluous, as any person who learned of a government action through the media and felt politically marginalized as a result of that secondhand media exposure would have individual standing to sue the government.”
A group of anti-Christianists are getting their way with a Florida school board.
A New York based Satanic organization descended on the Orange County School Board after the virulent anti-Christian Freedom From Religion Foundation threatened the district over allowing Bibles to be distributed in schools. The Satanists wanted to distribute a coloring book praising Satan.
“This really has, frankly, gotten out of hand,” Orange County Chairman Bill Sublette told reporters this week. “I think we’ve seen a group or groups take advantage of the open forum we’ve had.”
The Satanic Temple says they just want to educate children about worshipping Satan.
“I am quite certain that all of the children in these Florida schools are already aware of the Christian religion and it’s Bible, and this might be the first exposure these children have to the actual practice of Satanism,” spokesperson Lucien Greaves said.
The school is now banning the distribution of Bibles because of the extra attention, which is the original goal of the anti-Christianists.
A virulent anti-Christian organization that found a liberal judge to back them in an attempt to strip pastors of a tax exemption for housing has lost at the appeals level.
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago reversed the decision of liberal Judge Barbara Crabb who had backed the efforts of the anti-Christian Freedom From Religion Foundation. The court ruled that the FFRF had no standing to bring the case and that Judge Crabb had no basis for her ruling.
“The plaintiffs were never denied the parsonage exemption because they never asked for it, ” the three-judge panel stated. “Without a request, there can be no denial. And absent any personal denial of a benefit, the plaintiff s’ claim amounts to nothing more than a generalized grievance about §107(2)’s unconstitutionality, which does not support standing.”
The Alliance Defending Freedom, which filed a friend of the court brief on behalf of 600 churches, applauded the court making the Constitutionally sound ruling.
“The atheists who filed this suit may have an axe to grind against religion, but as the 7th Circuit found, that doesn’t give them sufficient standing to challenge a tax benefit for which it has never applied and that has been provided to pastors for decades,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley. “The allowance many churches provide to pastors is church money, not government money. It is constitutional and should continue to be respected and protected.”
One of the most virulent anti-Christian organizations in the nation has been discovered to have its roots in the pro-abortion lobby.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which targets Christians all over the country in an attempt to bully them into silence, was started in 1976 as part of the pro-abortion movement according to Madison, Wisconsin’s Isthmus newspaper.
“[FFRF] grew out of the reproductive rights movement after the Gaylors saw legislative hearings packed with Catholic nuns, priests and schoolchildren and concluded religion was the root of women’s inequality,” Isthmus reported.
Anne Gaylor once wrote fundraising letters bragging about abortions being given to 13-year-old and 12-year-old girls.
“The Freedom From Religion Foundation is not just about abolishing Christianity,” Steve McConkey of the ministry 4 WINDS said. “What they really desire is to eliminate biblical standards that Christians uphold. This is obvious when you see the connection to abortion.”
“This is an organization that not only has a hatred for Christianity, but a desire to see the most innocent harmed,” he warned. “They were founded on the principles of the Zero Population craze in the 70s. If they indirectly push the silent holocaust of abortion, they are no different than other evil movements that have eliminated innocent people in history.”
“We must remember we are in a spiritual battle,” McConkey told the Christian News. “The enemy blinds the eyes of people, especially as time progresses toward the end. Look at the world today—the lack of absolutes has created an open door for every kind of evil and can lead to evil leaders exploiting people. Evil builds if not checked by God’s absolutes.”
A virulent anti-Christian group is demanding that Bible classes in multiple North Carolina.
Cleveland, Woodleaf and Mount Ulla Elementary Schools in the Rowan-Salisbury School System have 45 minute classes that parents may opt out their children if they do not wish them to receive instruction.
The anti-Christian Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a threatening letter after another “anonymous” individual complained that the school was teaching the Bible.
“It is irrelevant that parents may excuse students from the elementary Bible classes,” the anti-Christian group wrote. “Suggesting that children who do not wish to be subjected to religious activity at their school should be segregated from their classmates is reprehensible. … It makes no difference if some parents would like the Rowan-Salisbury School system to teach the Bible as fact to its students.”
The school district said they are looking into the matter but refused further comment.
Extremist anti-Christian groups are attacking the family who owns the Hobby Lobby chain of stores for their plans to open a Bible Museum in Washington, D.C.
In one case, a group calls them a “great threat” to America.
The family of Hobby Lobby President Steve Green plans to open the Museum of the Bible in 2017. The museum’s construction was announced shortly after the Supreme Court ruled that Hobby Lobby could not be forced to provide four abortion causing drugs under the Affordable Care Act.
The Museum will have antique Bibles as well as educational areas about the Bible and its history.
“I think they (the Green family) are a great threat,” Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the anti-Christian Freedom From Religion Foundation, told The New York Times. “My instincts would tell me that they are choosing Washington, D.C. because they intend to influence Congress.”
A spokesman for the Museum of the Bible said that Washington, D.C. was chosen because it was the museum capital of the world and that studies showed they would have the best level of attendance in the nation’s capitol.
