FFRF Action
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
FFRF Senior Counsel Patrick Elliott tells us about FFRF's newest federal lawsuit challenging religious discrimination against the Satanic Temple's desire to host afterschool club meetings for children in Memphis, Tenn. Then, FFRF Director of Governmental Affairs Mark Dann and Senior Policy Counsel Ryan Jayne describe how the FFRF Action Fund (a 501(c)(4) nonprofit) is working to keep religion out of our laws and policies.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:14.9 | 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 Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore and Happy Spring. |
| 1:01.6 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:03.4 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:08.5 | And this is the March 21st, 2024 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:14.6 | Noah Gilfillon is with us today with Audio for the Arts. He's engineering our show in the |
| 1:20.3 | Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom |
| 1:25.8 | from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. And Noah, it's good to have you back with us for at least a day. Yeah, it's nice to be back. It's been a little bit. So Tori's out doing some other work, and it's... And we'll be back. And she'll be back next week, I suppose. In spades. Well, it's always fun to have you with us, Noah. |
| 1:47.4 | And I did want to say that today's the 21st. |
| 1:51.0 | Usually March 20th or 21st is the Vernal Equinox. |
| 1:53.5 | It was early this year, March 19th. |
| 1:58.0 | And Dan, you happened to mention to me that's very rare that it only happens on a leap here. |
| 1:59.3 | So I googled it. |
| 2:03.4 | The last time the Vernal Equinox was on March 19th, it was 2020. But previous to that, the last time the vernal equinox, the first day of spring, |
| 2:10.8 | was on March 19th. It was 1896. So just a little interesting factoid there. |
| 2:18.3 | And this is the Freedom from Religion Foundation and we're the producers of this weekly radio show about the work of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, also looking at the news of the week and doing irreverent news views and interviews. |
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