First Amendment champions

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Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

We have many state/church victories to report, including against the National Prayer Breakfast and proselytizing Colorado coach Deion Sanders. FFRF litigation counsel Sam Grover describes our newest federal court win against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who censored our display in the state Capitol. Then we hear Nebraska state Sen. Megan Hunt, an atheist working to keep religion and government separate, as she accepts FFRF's "Champion of the First Amendment" award.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:09.3	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:13.7	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:19.9	It's easy if you try
0:22.8	No hell below us
0:29.3	Above us only sky
0:35.6	Imagine all the people Above us only sky.
0:59.5	Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gayore, and I can testify that I did not pray today with my breakfast,
1:03.2	but a whole bunch of federal elected officials did.
1:04.8	More about that later.
1:06.8	And I'm Dan Barker.
1:10.8	I didn't pray either, but I did curse the cold this morning.
1:12.0	Does that count as a prayer?
1:12.9	I guess it's, no.
1:19.3	Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:24.4	And this is the February 2nd, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio.
1:31.0	Again, Grant Blaschka with Audio for the Arts is our engineer in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the national offices of the Freedom from Religion
1:37.2	Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom
1:43.1	from Religion Foundation,
1:44.5	which works to keep religion out of government and social policy
1:48.9	and represents the views of those of us,
1:52.4	the almost 30% of Americans who identify as unaffiliated,
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