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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2014 Media Contact: Justin Vacula, justinvacula [at] gmail.com NEPA Freethought Society to deliver secular invocation at June 12, 2014 Wilkes-Barre City Council meeting Wilkes-Barre – The NEPA Freethought Society — a social, educational, activist, and philosophical coalition of atheists, agnostics, humanists, secularists, and skeptics predicated on support and community which […]
Wilkes-Barre City Council approved my request to provide a secular invocation at a future meeting, but is only allowing me to do so during the public comment section. I addressed Wilkes-Barre City Council during its May 29, 2014 meeting asking permission to provide a secular invocation in place of the traditional government-led Judeo-Christian prayer led by […]
Quick update: I’ll be speaking at tonight’s Wilkes-Barre City Council meeting concerning events surrounding the improper placement and response from city officials in regards to the FFRF ‘Nothing Fails Like Prayer’ banner. I shall also ask city council for permission to deliver a secular invocation during council meetings (rather than the government-delivered prayer offered during […]
The video of my appearance on episode #73 of the Virginia-based public access television show Road to Reason is now available. Watch a video of my appearance representing the NEPA Freethought Society, included below, on the television show Road to Reason. I spoke about separation of church and state issues in Northeastern Pennylvania; the importance […]
Wilkes-Barre City Administrator Marie McCormick promised the FFRF banner would hang for extra days, but so did other banners. I have been writing a good deal about the ‘Nothing Fails Like Prayer’ banner I, with help from the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), displayed on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre in response to a National Day […]
