Published by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.
Vol. 39 No. 05 June/July 2022
Photos, cartoons (June/July 2022)
Photo by Carl Ledendecker
FFRF’s East Tennessee Chapter placed this billboard in April along the heavily traveled I-40/I-75 near downtown Knoxville. Members of the East Tennessee chapter in the photo are, from left to right, David Hughes, Angel Jones, Joe Mitchell, Alistair Elliot, Gregg Deneweth, Terry Ray, Shannon VanBreda, Real VanBreda (holding Bailey the dog), chapter president Aleta Ledendecker and Eliot Specht. The same design will be used in Dayton, Tenn., the site of the famous Scopes “monkey” trial (immortalized in “Inherit the Wind”), for three months this summer in time for a scheduled trial re-enactment.
School shooting cartoon
Phil Hands cartoon
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Carl Ledendecker wipes down the base of the Darrow statue, which was created by sculptor Zenos Frudakis. FFRF was the majority underwriter for the statue project which was dedicated in July 2017.
Real Van Breda (on the scaffolding), Eliot Specht (on the ladder) and Carl Ledendecker of the FFRF East Tennessee Chapter put the finishing touches on the cleaning and polishing of the Clarence Darrow statue in Dayton, Tenn. “It only took a little over an hour to get the statue looking really nice!” chapter President Aleta Ledendecker said. “There was a large group of tourists from Louisville who came by during the cleaning and wanted to know more about what we were doing. They applauded the work of FFRF!”
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FFRF volunteer Linda Josheff sent us this church marquee from Midvale Baptist Church in Madison, Wis. Linda simply wrote: “Ick.”
FFRF Member Dave Capps of North Carolina sent us this photo. He writes: “We visited Santa Fe, N.M., and went by the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. I found the gift shop sign just outside the entrance to be most amusing. Never miss an opportunity to ‘fleece the flock.’”