Eleanor Smeal, former director of NOW, and current director of the Feminist Majority

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2012

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Honoring "June-teenth" this week, we talk about FFRF's recent Nativity Scene victory in Santa Monica, California, and we listen to the new TV-Web ad that former Catholic Julia Sweeney made for FFRF fighting the Catholic Bishops' assault on birth control. Our guest for the 2nd half of the show is Eleanor Smeal, former director of NOW, and current director of the Feminist Majority.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:19.0	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
0:47.3	living for today
0:53.3	Happy Juneteenth. I'm Annie Laurie Galar.
0:59.9	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves.
1:05.1	I'm a former preacher who's seen the light.
1:08.2	After 19 years as a minister and an evangelist, I poured out the bathwater
1:14.2	and I found out there's no baby there. If you were a true believer like me, I know what you
1:21.7	went through to reason your way out of the brainwashing of religion. So welcome to the nonfold.
1:29.0	And welcome to Free Thought Radio, the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:34.8	serving as the nation's largest membership association of freethinkers, atheists, and agnostics,
1:41.0	and working as a diligent state church watchdog. And about 20% of our members were
1:46.8	always nuns, not N-U-N-S, but N-O-N-E-S, choosing none of the above with religion like me.
1:54.0	You were a nun, Annie Lurie? Yes, I grew up free from religion. But 80% like Dan had some kind of religious indoctrination to overcome.
2:03.4	But whatever your story is, we hoped not someday, but today you will join us.
2:09.0	You can join us if you want at the Freedom from Religion Foundation webpage,
2:13.2	ffrf.org. Why did you say June 10th, Annie Laurie?
2:17.3	Well, that's the upcoming anniversary of the
2:20.5	Emancipation Proclamation Freeing the Slaves, and it's traditionally celebrated. And we celebrate the freedom
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