The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s Metropolitan Chicago Chapter is providing secular cheer to the Daley Center Plaza.

The chapter has put up its annual Bill of Rights banner that reads: “Joy to the world — The Bill of Rights is Born. During this festive season, let us celebrate reason, not superstition. Happy Bill of Rights Day, and Merry Winter Solstice.” The display will be available for viewing until Dec. 26.

FFRF thanks the volunteers pictured (from left to right), Manuel Beltran, Janet Kuhn and Jeff Kramer, for their hard work, especially during subzero wind-chill temperatures throughout the process!

FFRF’s Metropolitan Chicago Chapter has also installed other displays in the Chicago area. Members proudly work every year to put up these equal-time displays to counter religious exhibits on government property and to represent the views of atheists, agnostics and religiously unaffiliated individuals, who make up nearly 30 percent of Illinois residents.

“We’re delighted to have a freethinking presence in the Chicago Daley Center and celebrate the real reason for the season — the Winter Solstice,” says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. “Religious displays can’t be allowed to monopolize the public space. As we always say, if a governmental body creates a public forum for religion, there must be room at the inn for dissenting viewpoints.”

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is the largest national association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics) with almost 42,000 members and several chapters all over the country, including more than 1,400 members and the Chicago chapter in Illinois. The organization works to protect the constitutional separation between religion and government.

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