News

November 27, 2011

Freethinker's Display Returns to State Capitol

For Immediate Release

(Little Rock, Arkansas, Nov 29, 2011) For the third consecutive year, the Arkansas Society of Freethinkers will erect a winter solstice holiday display on the grounds of the state capitol.

October 25, 2011

Called to Teach: Public School Teachers & Professional Development Credits for "Living Christ in the Classroom"?

Reported by: Marci Manley, KARK 4 News

"Referring to these students who were in need of help as being poor in spirit," she said flipping through a folder of papers.

October 06, 2011

Out of the box thinking

by William Gibson White,
The Sentinel Record, Hot Springs, Ark

Contrary thinking is not too popular or tolerated in the Bible Belt. Up front, I believe in freedom of religion, as well as freedom from it. And I despise censorship.

October 05, 2011

Churches teaching teachers how to teach religion

Nonbelievers see the program as inappropriate if not illegal.
by Doug Smith, Arkansas Times

Are conservative Little Rock churches teaching public school- teachers how to bring religion into their classrooms, thereby circumventing laws that require separation of church and state? LeeWood Thomas, a spokesman for a coalition of atheist and agnostic groups, thinks so.

October 04, 2011

Godless Bus Ads Now in Little Rock after Court Ruling

For Immediate Release

(Little Rock, Arkansas, October 4, 2011) "Are you good without God? Millions are."

October 02, 2011

Kickball team wears "Good without God" bus costumes

Fox 16 News
Reported by Kelly Dudzik

LITTLE ROCK, AR - "Are you good without God? Millions are." The Central Arkansas Coalition of Reason won a first amendment court battle this summer to put that ad on Central Arkansas Transit buses. Now, the atheist group is taking that message to the kickball field.

September 05, 2011

Frostcall - Audio Interview

Frostcall is a blog out of Austin, TX, hosted by an ex-Christian couple that are now atheists. They contacted our media rep,LeeWood Thomas, about doing an audio interview. LeeWood talks about what the Central Arkansas CoR has done in our community in the past and ideas for the future, and also about our recent bus ad campaign.

Frostcall Audio

August 31, 2011

Atheists in Arkansas

The godless find a voice.
by Doug Smith
Arkansas Times

It's said there are no atheists in foxholes, and that's baloney, according to a military man we'll call "Brad." At an atheists' social gathering in Little Rock, Brad told a reporter that as an Air Force pilot, he'd been in situations where his life was in danger, and on those occasions, the farthest thing from his mind was seeking assistance from an omnipotent Santa Claus.

August 12, 2011

UnitedCoR Celebrates Victory for Free Speech and Nontheists in Arkansas

(August 12, 2011) Godless bus ads will now roll in Little Rock.

August 12, 2011

Court orders nontheist ads let onto buses

Refusing group violates speech rights, judge rules
Linda Satter - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

If Central Arkansas Transit Authority is going to give some groups a forum by allowing them to advertise on the sides of its buses, it can’t refuse others, a federal judge said Thursday, finding that the system violated a non-theist group’s First Amendment rights in refusing its ads questioning the existence of God.

August 11, 2011