Freedom From Fundamentalism
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week we announce a Triumphant Trifecta of legal victories, ending high-school proselytizing in West Virginia, eliminating a religious test for public office in New Jersey, and stopping $1.5 million of South Carolina state funds from going to a religious school. Then we hear Jen Castle, the national Director of Abortion Services for Planned Parenthood, deliver an impassioned speech in acceptance of FFRF's "Freedom From Religious Fundamentalism" award.
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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. |
| 0:20.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:25.9 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:32.3 | No hell below us. |
| 0:56.0 | Above us only sky imagine all the people living for today Hello, welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and this is Radio for the rest of us. |
| 1:03.0 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:04.5 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:10.4 | And this is the November 16th, |
| 1:12.6 | 2023 episode of Free Thought Radio. Tori Neals with Audio for the Arts is our engineer |
| 1:19.6 | in the Stephen Ool Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, which is the National Office |
| 1:25.6 | of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. And Free Thought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:30.3 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:36.3 | Emphasis on from, because you cannot have freedom of religion without freedom from religion in government. |
| 1:42.3 | And that is one of our two purposes to keep religion |
| 1:45.3 | out of government. And the second is to serve as a national membership organization for like-minded |
| 1:52.5 | individuals who are personally free from religion. And we've grown from the original three founding |
| 1:58.3 | members many years ago to over 40,000 current members. And if you're a |
| 2:02.8 | member, thank you. And if not, we would love to have you join us or to check out our website |
| 2:08.5 | at ffrof.org. Click the Ask for Info link and we'll get you a copy of our monthly newspaper |
| 2:14.0 | and a brochure about our 46 years of significant achievements. |
| 2:20.3 | In the second half of today's show, we're going to hear the National Planned Parenthood's Director of Abortion Service Delivery, Jen Castle. |
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