The Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia (FSGP) will be hosting a lecture by at their monthly meeting in August.
From the FSGP Calendar:
Bob Ritter is the legal coordinator of the Appignani Humanist Legal Center of the American Humanist Association. He is a member of the D.C. and Virginia bar, the Supreme Court bar, the bars of the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 4th, 10th and D.C. Circuits and of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Ritter is co-counsel with Mike Newdow in Newdow v. Roberts, a case challenging the infusion of religion into the presidential inaugural ceremonies. That case is currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Presentation details are online and will be included in the next newsletter.
Join us to hear Ritter’s take on the complete abdication of reason by the Supreme Court majority in Van Orden v. Perry – the 2005 Supreme Court decision that held that the Fraternal Order of Eagles’ Ten Commandments tombstone displayed on the Texas state capitol grounds does not violate the Establishment Clause. An early draft version appears on my website www.jmcenter.org.
Other brief topics include his current work at AHA: (1) Newdow v. Roberts (challenging the infusion of religion into the presidential inaugural ceremonies); (2) the upcoming Supreme Court case of Salazar v. Buono involving the Sunrise Rock cross in the Mojave National Preserve in California; (3) the Fire Tower cross in Reading, PA; and (4) my personal campaign to get Little League Baseball (headquartered in PA) to discontinue its religious practices including “I trust in God” in the Little League Pledge.
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