Welcome to the Salt Lake Chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation
Contact us: ffrfslc@gmail.com
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Who We Are
We are members of the national Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) who are concerned about the undue influence which religion exerts in Utah over our government, our schools, and our lives in general.
Anyone interested in defending church/state separation in the state of Utah is welcome to join forces with us.
Where We Live
Most of us live along the Wasatch Front (Salt Lake City, Odgen, Provo), but not all of us. People who live anywhere near Salt Lake City are encouraged to join us, and you may interpret the term "anywhere near" however you like. We currently have FFRF members as far away as St. George saying they'd like to join us, at least for exchanging ideas. We don't expect to see those folks in person very often, if ever, but we benefit from their input and we hope they benefit from ours.
What We Do
Our general goal is to further the mission of the Freedom From Religion Foundation in the state of Utah. More specifically, we work to protect the wall that America's founding fathers placed between church and state, which is an especially flimsy wall here in Utah. We do this through education, outreach and, if necessary, litigation.
We've decided that for now the Salt Lake Chapter of FFRF will emphasize community outreach and activism over regular social gatherings, since other local groups already exist who hold regular freethinker social gatherings. If you would like to connect up with secular humanisit groups who hold live, face-to-face meetings in the Salt Lake area, we suggest...
- SALT LAKE OASIS, meets weekly ( https://www.saltlakeoasis.org/ )
- SLCPOSTMOS, meet every other week ( https://www.meetup.com/postmormons/ )
- SALT CITY SKEPTICS, meets once a month ( https://www.meetup.com/saltcityskeptics/ )
- LOST AND FOUND CLUB, meets once a month ( https://www.lostandfound.club/ )
- THRIVE SALT LAKE, meets once a month ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/576459534896853 )
If you know of other Salt Lake area secular humanist groups who meet regularly, please let us know (via email to ffrfslc@gmail.com) and we'll post a link to them here.
What You Can Do
JOIN US. Send an email to ffrfslc@gmail.com for membership information.
WRITE OR CALL YOUR GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES: Click here to see a list of issues that are especially of concern to us in the Salt Lake Chapter of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
TELL US IF YOU SEE A POTENTIAL CHURCH/STATE VIOLATION ANYWHERE IN UTAH. Send an email to ffrfslc@gmail.com
(For examples of church/state violations we've previously taken action on, click here).
...and/or...
FFRF has created a full year of daily actions that you can do— small, achievable steps anyone can take to strengthen secular values and celebrate freedom of thought.
Some actions are personal:
- Reflect on what freethought has meant in your own life.
- Read a quote by a famous secular thinker.
- Share a story of resilience after leaving religion.
Others are civic or social:
- Vote in a local election.
- Support a secular educator.
- Challenge a moment of religious privilege in your workplace or school.
Every action, no matter how small, is a spark. And when thousands of us participate, those sparks light up a movement.
To explore the full list of suggestions that you can do to promote FREETHOUGHT IN ACTION, click on this link...
The video shown below is an episode of the Mormonish Podcast, where FFRF Co-President Dan Barker and FFRFSLC President Douglas Hendricks briefly discussed what FFRF does at a national level and then did a deeper dive into what FFRFSLC is doing at a local level here in Utah.
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