Freedom To Be Yourself
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We celebrate this week's Supreme Court Bostock decision affirming civil-rights protections to the LGBTQ community. FFRF attorney Patrick Elliott explains how that case relates to religious liberty. After hearing the song "Freedom From Religion," we talk with Jon Steingard, the former lead singer of the Christian rock band Hawk Nelson, who just announced on Instagram that he no longer believes in 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. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky |
| 0:40.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:45.3 | living for today yeah |
| 0:56.0 | am I |
| 0:58.0 | am I |
| 1:02.0 | my Happy Summer Happy Summer Solstice! |
| 1:33.4 | This is Free Thought Radio, and I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:37.4 | The summer solstice occurs this Saturday, June 20th, at 4.45 p.m. in Wisconsin, central time. |
| 1:48.1 | And that's Louis Armstrong playing the song, |
| 1:56.4 | Summertime, written by the non-religious songwriters George and Ira Gershwin. And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 2:01.9 | This is the June 18th, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 2:13.6 | Buzz Camper, as usual, has been faithlessly producing this show for 12 weeks now from his own recording studio, Audio for the Arts. |
| 2:21.3 | While Annie Laurie and I are hosting from our improvised home studio about three miles away from Buzz in Madison, Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin is the headquarters of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 2:27.3 | And the Freedom from Religion Foundation continues to work very hard remotely. |
| 2:32.3 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:38.0 | and FFRF works to keep religion out of government, |
| 2:42.0 | and we also represent the point of view of those of us who are personally free from religion |
| 2:47.0 | with over 33,000 members this month, and we would love to have you become a member today at |
| 2:53.8 | ffrf.org and support our work. So Freethinkers means atheists, agnostics, people who are free from |
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