Banned Books
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Guest: Marty Essen. FFRF's Senior Litigation Counsel Patrick Elliott describes the new lawsuit we filed this week challenging 1.5 million dollars in the South Carolina budget to start a Christian school. Then the award-winning author, photographer and lecturer Marty Essen discusses the column against censorship he wrote for Banned Books Week: "Christian Nationalism and Book Banning."
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. |
| 0:47.9 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:51.9 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:10.4 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and happy autumn. Today is the first day of fall. And we're also in the midst of the 40th anniversary of band book week. That takes place September 18th to 24th. Too bad we need a band book week, but it's very relevant this year. Well, we're going to talk about that in a few minutes. |
| 1:12.5 | I'm Dan Barker, Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:19.2 | And as Annie Laurie pointed out, this is the September 22nd, 2022 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:26.8 | Noah Gilfellon with Audio for the Arts is engineering today in the Stephen Ool-friendly |
| 1:32.6 | atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:35.8 | Freethought Hall is the national office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:41.7 | And Freethought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:48.4 | And we have those very important two purposes to uphold the constitutional principle, |
| 1:53.5 | the separation between religion and government, to get religion out of government and social policy, |
| 2:00.2 | and to educate you, the public, about the |
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| 2:07.9 | And if not, or you're just curious, we'd be glad to send you a complementary issue of our newspaper |
| 2:12.9 | free thought today and a brochure about our 45 years of achievements as a tax exempt educational nonprofit. |
| 2:21.0 | The Freedom from Religion Foundation is pleased to be announcing today a new lawsuit, |
| 2:28.0 | challenging a decision by the state of South Carolina to give $1.5 million to a Christian school. In a few minutes, we're going to talk |
| 2:38.3 | with FFRF's Senior Litigation Council, Patrick Elliott, about this very important case. |
| 2:44.5 | It's actually not going to a Christian school. It's going to an evangelist group that wants to |
| 2:49.9 | create a Christian school almost entirely |
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