"Get Off Your Knees and Get To Work"
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2013
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Arizona State Representative Juan Mendez
"Christmas is early this year!" Texas Governor Perry signed into law this month the "Merry Christmas" bill, encouraging public schools to promote religion, taking pot shots at FFRF. Hear coverage of our Florida school distribution lawsuit. Then we talk with Arizona State Representative Juan Mendez, who opened a session of the House of Representatives with a freethought invocation instead of a prayer.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:14.7 | irreverent views, news, music, and interviews. |
| 0:19.1 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:25.3 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.1 | No hell below us |
| 0:41.3 | above us only sky imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:55.6 | our brains have completely fallen out. |
| 0:59.5 | Our brains have completely fallen out. |
| 1:01.4 | That's an unusual admission by Texas State Representative Duane Bohak. |
| 1:06.1 | I can't argue with him about that one, that his brain has fallen out. |
| 1:10.1 | He was complaining about the |
| 1:11.2 | Freedom for Religion Foundation's efforts to keep state and church separate in public schools in Texas. |
| 1:16.6 | And I'm Annie Larry Geller. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood |
| 1:20.8 | atheist. And last time I checked, my brain is still intact. And the First Amendment has not completely fallen out of the Bill of Rights, |
| 1:29.9 | at least not yet. This is the June 22nd, 2013 broadcast or Free Thought Radio. We broadcast and stream |
| 1:37.2 | from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. And we broadcast in other states, including California, |
| 1:44.0 | New York, Michigan, and Missouri, and soon to come in Texas. And we broadcast in other states, including California, New York, Michigan, and |
| 1:45.2 | Missouri, and soon to come in Texas. And, of course, we podcast all over the cosmos. |
| 1:51.1 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF. That stands for the Freedom from |
| 1:56.4 | Religion Foundation. Freedom of and Freedom from are basically the same concept. There's no |
| 2:02.7 | freedom of religion if you do not have freedom from religion and government. And FFRF works to |
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