Battling the Religious Right
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Housing Allowance Victory! Dan and Annie Laurie discuss the recent FFRF federal lawsuit, in which they were plaintiffs, declaring the IRS clergy housing allowance exclusion unconstitutional. Then they talk about the bad decision in Barker vs. Conroy that bars nonbelievers from opening Congress with a secular invocation. Winners of FFRF's grad-student essay contest are announced. Then we hear an excerpt of Katha Pollitt's speech about Trump and the religious right, delivered at FFRFs annual convention last month.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.4 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.8 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.4 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:29.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:35.6 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:42.0 | Living for today |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to Freethought Radio. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and boy, it's been quite a week of ups and downs and everything in between. |
| 0:58.1 | So we'd be talking about a lot on this show today. |
| 1:00.7 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:04.5 | This is the October 12, 2017 Free Thought Radio show. |
| 1:10.0 | Our engineer is Buzz Kemper, producing the show in the Stephen Yule, friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:17.6 | the national offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:22.4 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, Freedom from Religion Foundation, which has two |
| 1:29.6 | important purposes to keep religion out of government as our U.S. Constitution dictates, the first |
| 1:36.7 | constitution in the world to keep religion and God out of it. And we also work to educate |
| 1:43.3 | the public about non-theism and serve as the |
| 1:46.6 | North America's largest association of free thinkers, atheists and agnostics, and everything in |
| 1:51.9 | between. Today is the birthday of the British composer, Raph von Williams. He was born October 12, |
| 1:59.3 | 1872. Von Williams, who was Charles Darwin's great |
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