Several years ago, when the Freedom From Religion Foundation first pondered a need for more space, it considered selling its headquarters Downtown and buying a larger building elsewhere. <\/p>\n
Annie Laurie Gaylor, a foundation co-president with her husband, Dan Barker, said she hoped they might buy a vacant church. <\/p>\n
But after evaluating 20 or so sites, the couple decided to stay put and construct an addition to the nonprofit organizations current building. All for the better, they now say. <\/p>\n
The addition, which staff members began moving into this week, keeps the organization at the corner of West Washington Avenue and North Henry Street. <\/p>\n
The prominent spot is near Overture Center and the Madison Central Library and just blocks from the state Capitol and the UW-Madison campus. <\/p>\n
We like to be in the thick of things, Gaylor said. <\/p>\n
Indeed they do. <\/p>\n
The organization, founded in 1976, promotes the separation of church and state with a tenacity that delights some and exasperates others. <\/p>\n
Its second goal, to educate the public about atheism and agnosticism, elicits less public vitriol but is no less important to the organizations members. <\/p>\n
Both goals now will be easier to pursue with the expansion, Gaylor said. <\/p>\n
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