The February’s “Freely Speaking” is now available. It includes the monthly church-state update, which has details on these recent legal developments that affect Brevard County residents:

• Court dismisses atheist soldier’s suit against Pentagon
• Supreme Court blocks video coverage of Prop. 8 trial
• U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes

Previous bulletins can be found here.

Join us at Magic Kingdom in Orlando on Saturday, October 17, for our fourth annual Freethought Day at Disney!

For details, visit freethoughtdayatdisney.org or spacecoastfreethought.org/disney

Doug

George Ricker, one of the founders of SCFA and a great friend to all who knew him, passed away this week. He will be missed.

George was a very prolific writer on church-state and freethought issues. He wrote two books, “Godless in America: conversations with an atheist” and “mere atheism: no gods…no problem!” and maintained his website godlessinamerica.com that has many essays and other writings. He also contributed many articles to our newsletter over the years, many of which are available on his website.

Florida Atheists and Secular Humanists (FLASH), the group that made the news with their “controversial” billboard that said that you don’t have to be good without god, have started a fund to put and keep similar billboards up across Florida: