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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Wisconsin Newsletter for Tuesday September 17, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Missouri school district must drop prayer in staff meetings, says FFRF
MADISON, Wisconsin, Sept. 16 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: The Freedom From Religion Foundation has informed Bolivar R-1 School District in Bolivar, Mo., that prayer at its staff meetings is inappropriate and unconstitutional. A concerned employee informed the national state/church watchdog that official prayer started the district's Aug. 13 all-staff assembly. A local pastor, Matt Bunn of Heights Church, recited the school-sponsored prayer over a l  more

Pope crosses line by intruding in U.S. election
MADISON, Wisconsin, Sept. 16 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: Pope Francis has no business weighing in on the U.S. presidential election. It's already unconscionable that the Vatican has been waging a global war against abortion and contraceptive rights, seeking not only to deny Roman Catholic followers but all non-Catholics control of their own reproduction, families and lives. Notably, 82 percent of the world is not Catholic. Yet the Vatican is commi  more