First-Amendment Success!
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2015
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Happy Halloween! Before hearing the song “Spooky Mormon Hell Dream” we announce state/church victories, lawsuits and complaints in Indiana, Arkansas, and Virginia, dealing with a nativity pageant, a city Facebook page, and praying coaches. We hear Anita Weier’s acceptance speech at the 38th annual convention for the “Freethought Heroine” award for getting atheism added as a protective class to city ordinances, and lead staff attorney Rebecca Markert recapping thousands of complaints and hundreds of victories by FFRF’s legal staff in 2015.
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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. |
| 0:18.8 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:41.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:47.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 1:13.1 | living for today. Happy Halloween. I'm Annie Laurie Glor and welcome to Freeth That Radio. |
| 1:22.9 | And that, of course, was a teaser from Broadway's Book of Mormon, the song Spooky Mormon Hell, or spooky Mormon hell dream, I think. |
| 1:24.7 | And we'll play a little more of that later. |
| 1:31.1 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly, scary neighborhood atheist this Halloween weekend. |
| 1:34.7 | This is October 31st, 2015. |
| 1:41.8 | Free Thought Radio is produced right here in Madison, Wisconsin on the Mike 92.1. |
| 1:49.0 | This is called Progressive Talk Radio. We broadcast in stream Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central here in Madison. |
| 1:59.5 | We also broadcast on other stations around the country, including the newest one is community radio, not too far from here down in Janesville, Wisconsin. S-W-A-D-R. |
| 2:03.2 | Also over in Vermont, New Hampshire, Black Sheep Radio. |
| 2:19.4 | What a great name for a radio station. That's W-O-O-O-L. Get it? Black Sheep, W-O-O-L-F-M. In Grand Rapids on W-P-R-R-R in Central Texas, K-E-O-S, in Columbia, Missouri K-O-P-N, over in central New York. |
| 2:26.3 | A few cities over there on W-R-F-I, 88.1, and 91.9 FM. |
| 2:31.9 | In Canada, up in Alberta, K-XU, 88.3. |
| 2:37.0 | And we're also on some internet stations, such as Radio Monterey.com. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:42.0 | which serves as the nation's largest association of freethinkers, those of us who form our opinion based on reason rather than faith, tradition, or authority. And that's the |
| 2:52.9 | dictionary definition of the word, free thinker, as one word. A single word. And free thought |
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