Celebrating Liberty

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Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this July 4 weekend we celebrate the Supreme Court decision recognizing gay marriage, and the July 4 birthday of American songwriter Stephen Foster. We talk with FFRF attorney Katherine Paige about the Colorado Supreme Court nixing vouchers to private religious schools. Then we interview Brady Henderson, legal director of the ACLU of Oklahoma, about their spectacular state supreme court victory this week calling for the removal of the Ten Commandments from the state capitol.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:14.7	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:19.1	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:21.6	It's easy if you try.
0:27.6	No hell below us, above us only sky
0:41.3	imagine all the people
0:46.3	living for today Ah, ah, imagine there's no fun. Happy 4th of July. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor and welcome to Free Thought Radio and this is the perfect music to celebrate last week's spectacular Supreme Court decision for marriage equality and against dogma in our government.
1:39.9	Liberty and Justice for All. Love Conquers All is the graphic that Jake Swenson, our new graphic designer, put up at our website,
1:48.8	beautiful rainbow in front of the Supreme Court.
1:51.6	And it's the perfect music, of course, to celebrate July 4th.
1:55.3	Independence Day.
1:56.2	And, of course, Free Thought Radio is all about independence and liberty, the freedom to think for yourself,
2:03.4	and to be free from all forms of tyranny, especially religious tyranny.
2:08.7	I'm Dan Barker with Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is the July 4th, 2015 edition of Free Thought Radio,
2:16.0	produced at the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin.
2:19.7	The show broadcasts on Saturday mornings at 11 a.m. Central. The live stream is through
2:24.5	IHeart Radio. We also broadcast in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in College Station, Texas, over in
2:31.9	Columbia, over in Central Missouri, in the Ithaca, New York area, in southern Alberta, Canada, and on some internet stations such as Monterey.com.
2:42.2	And hello and welcome to all you podcast listeners.
2:45.7	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, which stands for the Freedom from Religion Foundation. And as Dan
2:53.4	said, we are declaring our independence from religion in government. FFRF has two purposes to keep
2:59.9	religion out of government and defend that constitutional wall of separation between state and church
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