For Christ's Sake

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Happy Juneteenth and Happy Summer Solstice! FFRF attorney Patrick Elliott joins us to talk about today's Supreme Court Fulton decision over whether a publicly funded religious organization can refuse to place foster-care children with same-sex parents. Then we speak with journalist Helen Christophi about her article in the April/May Progressive magazine called "For Christ's Sake: Leonard Leo's Network Is Trying To Reshape the World Into the Kingdom of God."

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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.
0:13.5	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:20.0	It's easy if you try
0:22.6	No hell below us
0:33.6	Above us only sky
0:36.6	Imagine all the people
0:40.3	Living for today Amen. My
0:55.0	Man.
0:57.0	And Welcome to Free Thought Radio, and it is summertime.
1:28.0	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:29.4	That is the Georgian Ira Gershwin song, Summertime, that's solo by Louis Armstrong.
1:35.0	The summer solstice is Sunday, June 20th, at 10.30 p.m., which seems like a contradiction.
1:41.2	And also, happy June 10th.
1:43.9	And that comes up this Saturday, June 19th, which,
1:47.9	by an act of Congress just this week, will finally become a federal holiday commemorating the
1:55.4	end of chattel slavery. And more about that in a minute. And I'm Dan Barker. This is Free Thought Radio for June 17th, 2021.
2:06.0	And we're finally back in the saddle again.
2:09.3	Annie Laurie and I have returned to the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall,
2:15.8	the National Offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation
2:20.1	in Madison, Wisconsin. Grant Blashka, who is with Audio for the Arts, is engineering today
2:27.4	and no longer remotely like we did for 14 months during the pandemic. I can see you through the
2:33.9	glass there, Grant.
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