The Foundation keeps several challenges in the courts at all times.
Annie Laurie Gaylor's definition of religion – "a belief in a supernatural being who must be worshipped and obeyed as the creator and ruler of the universe, whose dicta are found in so-called sacred writings.
The word "'religion’ takes on a sinister cast when one examines its root, religare, meaning ‘to bind’, which in turn means ‘to hold, to make prisoner, to restrain."
“[Religion is] the source of the greatest violence in the world,” Gaylor said. “More people have been killed in the world for religion over any other reason.”
"‘No Gods – No Masters’ was the motto Margaret Sanger chose for her 1914 publication, The Woman Rebel. Ever since encountering it I have felt is expressed in a nutshell the feminist viewpoint toward patriarchal religion. ‘No Gods- No Masters’ gallantly rejects the master/slave hierarchy of male power over women and supernatural power over all humankind that is ordained in the Jebrew and Christian testaments."
"The writers featured in Women Without Superstition are freethinkers, not necessarily atheists, although that label accurately describes many of them. Freethought means the use of reason in forming opinions abut religion, rather than basing belief on faith, authority or tradition."
Annie Laurie's mother Anne Gaylor, on behalf of the local National Organization for Women.
