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Activist Matt LaClair  At the Freedom From Religion Founation's
2007 conference, we got the chance to sit down and chat with
FFRF award recipient Matt LaClair. You can read about Matt's
struggle to get religion and preaching out of his school here
and here. SSA eMpirical Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth R.A. Liddell
conducts this interview.  Matt LaClairYou talked about getting
pushback from teachers and students. Was that a constant active
pressure every day, or more of a passive resistance? It was kind
of a mix. A lot of friends and other students just stopped
talking to me, but other people would come straight up to me and
say what an asshole I was. So it was a mix, but it was constant.
Has that died down a bit? It died down a little bit over the
summer. I don't think it's as strong as it was. I think part of
that is because now I'm a senior, while last year [when this was
all happening] I was just a junior. The studnets who said things
to my face