Governmental Affairs

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Demons on airplanes. Democrats deleting God. Courtroom prayer by judges. Bible classes in public schools. We talk about all of this, and more, plus Icelandic and other international humanists on today's show. After FFRF attorney Sam Grover describes our newest lawsuit, challenging a proselytizing judge in Texas, we talk with Mark Dann, FFRF's new Director of Governmental Affairs, a full-time DC lobbyist, about how to raise the national profile of freethinkers and the Freedom From Religion Foundation in order to promote secular legislation that honors the separation of state and church.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:14.0	Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try
0:22.6	No hell below us
0:33.6	Above us only sky
0:36.6	Imagine all the people Above us only sky.
0:48.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:56.3	Hello and happy June. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:05.6	And I'm Dan Barker, your co-host. This is the June 6th, 2019 edition of Free Thought Radio.
1:22.4	Buzz Kemper, again, is our engineer today. He's producing this show in the control room of the Stephen Yule friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:28.9	And Free Thought Radio is one of many of the Freedom from Religion Foundation's projects and campaigns,
1:32.3	and we've been on the air since 2006 and podcasting.
1:36.4	But it's just one of many things that the Freedom from Religion Foundation does.
1:38.5	We publish a newspaper Free Thought today.
1:40.9	We'd love to send you a sample copy.
1:45.8	You can go to our website and click on the Ask for Info, or you can call 1-800-335-4021 during office hours, or leave your name and address slowly if you call
1:53.4	after hours, and we'd be glad to send you a brochure about almost 42 years of activism by
1:59.0	our state church watchdog, which also acts as the nation's largest
2:03.9	association of non-believers, free thinkers, atheists, agnostic, skeptics, and other
2:09.9	clusters of icons. And we would love to have you join us. We're 31,000 members, but we should be
2:16.4	50 or 250,000. We need to counter
2:19.9	the Christian nationalists and the religious right, which has really never been more
2:24.8	powerful in today's society, and we can band together and work for secular government.
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