Etched in Stone

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

After analyzing the erroneous remarks President Trump delivered before evangelicals at the White House this week, we describe FFRF's new ad in the New York Times: "It's Time to Consider Quitting the Catholic Church." We hear a clip of comedian Julia Sweeney as she was interviewed on FFRF's Freethought Matters TV show. Then we talk with William C. Stone, the lead attorney in the historic 1980 Supreme Court case Stone v. Graham, which declared the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools to be unconstitutional.

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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.
0:14.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:18.0	It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and I'd like to say good riddance to August.
0:57.0	It's been quite a month of natural disasters. I hope you will enjoy your Labor Day weekend
1:02.4	because next week is also going to be grueling, Dan. It's that first week of September
1:08.6	will be when the confirmation hearings start for Judge Kavanaugh to go and join the Supreme Court.
1:15.9	And those of us who are state church proponents know what a disaster he would be.
1:20.1	So if you haven't already contacted your member, your senators, please do so.
1:26.2	Every day from now on, call, email, let your opposition be heard.
1:30.9	To try to stop another natural disaster. I'm Dan Barker, and this is the August 30th, 2018 edition
1:37.8	of Freethought Radio. Audrey Martinovich is engineering the show today in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio and Freethought Hall,
1:47.0	the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:52.0	And those of you who are regular listeners know that the Freedom from Religion Foundation is the executive producer of Free Thought Radio,
1:59.9	and FFF has two purposes to educate the public.
2:04.0	That's you about non-theism. Many of you already are very well-versed, but we'd like to reach the unmasked masses.
2:11.1	And we also very diligently work to keep religion out of government.
2:15.3	Please join us at ffrf.org. Today we have a real treat in the second
2:20.0	half of the show. We're going to talk with William Stone of the 1980 Supreme Court case, Stone versus
2:27.9	Graham, which ruled that the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools is unconstitutional.
2:34.3	It's a case that we cite almost every day.
2:37.2	Our attorney's cite of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
2:39.9	He's a life member, and we've never talked with him, and it will be a real treat.
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