Freedom of Religion and Belief
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
After listening to national coverage on "Megan Kelly Today" of FFRF's complaint about a Christian lip-sync video by a Texas police department, we talk with victorious litigation attorney David Kaloyanides, who handled FFRF's federal lawsuit against a California school board whose meetings include Christian prayer and preaching, resulting in a resounding unanimous decision in our favor this week from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Then we talk with Daniel Mach, Director of ACLU's Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, about the precarious status of state/church separation in the country today.
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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. |
| 0:13.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:17.0 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. |
| 0:48.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:53.3 | Let's make America smart again. Let's make America kind again. |
| 0:56.5 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:57.9 | I'm Annie Laurie Galer. |
| 0:59.2 | And I'm Dan Barker, and this is the July 26th, 2018 edition of Free Thought Radio, produced in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:10.0 | which is the National Office of the Freedom |
| 1:12.7 | from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. Buzz Kemper is our engineer today. |
| 1:18.9 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF. That's the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:23.4 | We're in our 40th anniversary year, serving as the nation's largest association of free thinkers, atheist agnostics. |
| 1:31.1 | And whatever you like to call yourself, we all disbelieve in the same gods. |
| 1:34.6 | And we believe in the First Amendment and the Establishment Clause separating religion from government. |
| 1:40.9 | And that's what we work very hard to prevail in, and we have some |
| 1:45.3 | great news on that front, and we hope that if you're not a member, you'll join us at fff.org |
| 1:50.4 | or ask for a sample of our newspaper and a brochure about our achievements, and we'd be glad |
| 1:55.2 | to mail that to you or send it to you digitally. |
| 1:57.9 | And we indeed have some great news to report, a great victory, that just came down this week. In a few minutes, we're going to talk digitally. And we indeed have some great news to report, a great victory that just came down this week. |
| 2:03.4 | In a few minutes, we're going to talk with David Collianides, the California attorney, |
| 2:08.8 | who handled our challenge of the Chino Valley, California School District Board, |
| 2:15.0 | praying and preaching before board meetings. |
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