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Rhode Islanders Go Ape Over Prayer; Freethinkers Show Floral Support Complimentary Copy Join FFRF Now! Vol. 29 No. 1 Published by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. January/February 2012 Judge rules in favor of Jessica Ahlquist Rhode Islanders go ape over prayer; freethinkers show floral support The stream of hate and profan- was “closed on the requested delivery ity previously aimed at Rhode Island day” (which was Wednesday, Jan. 18) teen Jessica Ahlquist increased by and said “ I am not able to fill this.” multitudes in the wake of a federal • The Madison florist was contacted judge’s order to permanently remove by Twins Florist in Cranston on Jan. 18 a Christian prayer banner at Cranston via Dove Network: “I will not deliver to West High School. She received death this person.” threats and numerous obscene com- • Flowers by Santilli in Cranston was ments directed at her online after the contacted by phone. The owner, upon Jan. 11 decision was released. hearing the name of the recipient, said The 8-foot-tall banner, currently he would rather not get involved and covered with a tarp while the School arship award last year and spoke at refused to fill the order. “We chose Committee of the city of Cranston and FFRF’s 34th national convention in not to make the delivery because first the city of Cranston decided whether October in Hartford, Conn., five days of all, most important, it’s our belief to appeal the judge’s ruling, is titled before Lagueux heard arguments in system,” Claudia Colardo-Santilli told “School Prayer,” addresses “Our Heav- the case in which she was the plaintiff WPRI News. enly Father” and ends with “Amen.” in an ACLU suit seeking removal of the • Seeking to go outside Cranston, “No amount of debate can make the banner. the Madison firm contacted Green- School Prayer anything other than a FFRF announced on Jan. 19 the cre- wood Flower & Garden in Warwick, prayer, and a Christian one at that,” said ation of its Atheists in Foxholes Sup- which agreed to accept the order, U.S. District Judge Ronald Lagueux in port Fund, with Ahlquist receiving a then called back saying patrons were a 40-page opinion. “Its opening, call- $10,000 scholarship as the fund’s first phoning and emailing threatening to ing upon the ‘Heavenly Father,’ is an recipient. She was also awarded $2,000 by President Ronald Reagan. boycott his business, so he refused the exclusively Christian formulation of a from FFRF in January for her student State Rep. Peter Palumbo, D-Crans- order. monotheistic deity, leaving out, inter activism. She’s being treated as a pari- ton, went on WPRO to call Ahlquist an FFRF filed a formal complaint Jan. alia, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, ah by many classmates and adults and “evil little thing.” He also called her a 19 with the state of Rhode Island Com- and atheists alike.” has expressed a desire to graduate ear- pawn “being coerced by evil people. mission for Human Rights, alleging “il- Ahlquist, 16, received FFRF’s Thom- ly from high school and attend college She’s being trained to do this.” legal discrimination based on religion” as Jefferson Student Activist schol- out of state. FFRF sent an Action Alert protesting for failure to fill the order. Senior Staff Banner supporters argued it was Palumbo’s vicious attack: “If anything Attorney Rebecca Markert cited the more historic and artistic than reli- is ‘evil,’ it is your inflammatory words state law that says it’s unlawful for a gious. In his decision, Lagueux called contributing to a situation in which place of accommodation to deny ser- the tradition argument “a murky and an entire community, if not state, ap- vices “on account of religion.” Inside This Issue dangerous bog. While all agree that pears to be arrayed against one young, Markert added, “Twins Florist vio- some traditions should be honored, brave and diminutive teenager. Your lated this statute when it refused the Prayer others must be put to rest as our na- reckless and unprofessional words as order by FFRF and it stated in its re- hazardous to tional values and notions of tolerance an elected state official endanger Jes- fusal that it would not ‘deliver to this pilot’s health and diversity evolve. At any rate, no sica’s standing and her security in the person.’ ” FFFRF is filing a separate Page 5 amount of history and tradition can community.” Continued on page 3 cure a constitutional infraction. The Court concludes that Cranston’s pur- Florists just poses in installing and, more recently, say no voting to retain the Prayer Mural are Student not clearly secular.” FFRF Co-Presi- activist David Bradley, 65, who wrote the dent Annie Laurie prayer in 1960 when he was in seventh Gaylor, wishing to proud to grade, told the Westerly Sun that he’s send a bouquet of be ‘out’ “absolutely incensed, disenfranchised roses to congratu- Page 11 and outraged. It’s just one more ex- late Ahlquist on the ample of secularism eroding the fabric court victory, con- of America.” tacted a shop Jan. 17 The class of 1963, the school’s first in Madison, Wis., to Freethought graduating class, had Bradley’s prayer assist with delivery. Heroine printed on heavy paper and hung it in The results: 2011 the auditorium as a gift to the school. • Floral Express, Bradley called Ahlquist a “trained in Cranston, on Pages 12–14 seal.” On WPRO Radio, Bradley said, Wednesday mes- “It’s a shame that some judge with an saged the Madison appointment out of a Cracker Jack box shop via Dove Net- Atheist Clem Wiechecki frames FFRF’s first-ever can make a ruling like that.” Lagueux, work, an electronic billboard in Rhode Island. See Page 23 for more on the 80, was appointed to the federal bench order service, that it billboard. Page 2 Freethought Today Madison, Wisconsin January/February 2012 Photos: Brent Nicastro In Memoriam James F. Crow, 1916 – 2012 James Franklin Crow, 95, Madi- “I take a great deal of pride in this, of son, Wis., died of congestive heart course. But this usually happens after failure Jan. 4, 2012, at Capitol Lakes you’re dead. And I’m refusing to take Retirement Community. The world- the hint.” renowned evolutionary biologist and He told the convention audience population geneticist was a University that he believed neither in gods, devils of Wisconsin-Madison professor for 48 nor “intelligent design.” In closing he years and a Lifetime Member of the said: Freedom From Religion Foundation. “I want to say a little bit about evo- Meet a Volunteer Crow was born Jan. 18, 1916, in lution and religious belief. My main Phoenixville, Pa. His father was a bi- personal reason for nonbelief is: Why Photo: Dan Barker ology teacher at Ursinus College, would an all-powerful and especially then moved to Friends University in benevolent creator permit so much sin Wichita, Kan., where James grew up. and suffering? Most evolutionists are He received a bachelor’s degree from nonbelievers, but they all aren’t. My Friends and did graduate studies at the favorite quotation on this subject, and University of Texas, where he earned a often he is very quotable, is from Ber- Ph.D. in genetics in 1941. After seven trand Russell. He was asked one time, years at Dartmouth College, he moved ‘Bertie, suppose that you’re totally to UW-Madison, where he stayed until wrong about this? Suppose you die and the end of his career. there really is a God and you’re taken He met his future wife, Ann Crock- up to the Pearly Gates, what would ett Crow, at the University of Texas, you say?’ Russell answered instantly, ‘I where he played viola and she played would say, “God, why didn’t you give us clarinet in the student orchestra. She better evidence?” ’ died in 2001. He played viola with “Well, let me finally end this tirade, the Madison Symphony Orchestra for this screed, by asking do you need to many years. He performed at a concert be a nonbeliever to study evolution? Of to celebrate his 90th birthday. course not! There are religious people He was a Fellow of the Royal Society who study evolution. I don’t think Scott Carney’s shirt notes that evolution is “All in the Family.” Go to of London and the Japan Academy, a there’s anyone among them, though, evogeneao.com for a good discussion of evolutionary genealogy. member of the American Philosophi- who takes the Old Testament literally. cal Society, the World Academy of Art For myself, I believe you don’t have to and Science, the American Academy of be a nonbeliever to be an evolutionist, Name: Scott Carney. made a loud noise and alarmed peo- Arts and Sciences, the National Acade- but I think it helps.” Where I live: De Pere, Wis. ple. The chair was old (and maybe not my of Medicine and the National Acad- Another UW colleague, Profes- Where I was born: Green Bay, Wis. ready for my 6-foot-6-inch frame), so it emy of Sciences, where he has chaired sor Emeritus James Coors, who is an Family: Ann and Michael, mom and wasn’t entirely my fault. several committees, including one to FFRF Executive Council member, dad; two older brothers, Dan 25, Matt My day job is/was/will eventually study forensic uses of DNA fingerprint- paid tribute to Crow in introducing 24. be: I’m pursuing an international rela- ing. That committee’s report helped him to the convention. Coors noted My religious upbringing was: Catho- tions degree and will work in either the legitimize use of DNA testing in court.
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