Freethought Caucus

Freethought Radio

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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We have two state/church victories to report. FFRF lead attorney Rebecca Markert tells us about our recent win in federal appeals court, ruling that a tall Christian cross in a public park in Pensacola, Florida, is unconstitutional, and we hear a news story about FFRF's successful letter to a West Virginia school district which prompted them to stop Christian prayers over the loudspeakers at high-school football games. Then we speak with Congressman Jared Huffman (of California) who founded the historic Freethought Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:09.3	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:13.3	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:20.0	It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky.
0:48.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:55.2	Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Dan Barker.
1:02.5	This is the September 13, 2018 edition of Radio for the rest of us.
1:07.4	Atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, freethinkers.
1:09.8	Andy Laurie's not with me today.
1:13.5	She and two of our attorneys, Liz Cavell and Andrew Seidel, and our Director of Communications, Amit Paul, are in Columbus, Ohio today. They're
1:20.1	speaking to the newswriters at the Religion News Association annual meeting. Buzz Kemper, again, is our engineer producing the show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist
1:31.8	studio in Free Thought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion
1:37.3	Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:40.7	Freedom from Religion Foundation works to keep state and church separate, and we also work to educate the public about the views of the nuns, N-O-N-E-S, those of us who are not religious, who make up now about a quarter of the U.S. population, and among that group, about half of those roughly are total non-believers, atheists,
2:03.6	and agnostics. And you're welcome to join the Freedom from Religion Foundation. You can go to
2:07.5	ffrf.org slash join and become a member and help us in our work. Annie Laurie is really disappointed
2:15.2	that she can't be here today. We have an exciting, extremely interesting show.
2:20.7	In the second half of the show, we're going to talk with Representative Jared Huffman,
2:25.3	who started the Congressional Free Thought Caucus,
2:28.8	a major milestone for secular representation in the U.S. House of Representatives.
2:35.3	We're also going to talk with FFRF's lead attorney Rebecca Markert about a major state
2:41.7	church legal victory over the Christian Cross in Pensacola, Florida.
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