Guest: Cecil Bothwell. An atheist In Office in State that Bars Atheists in Office!

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🗓️ 26 December 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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After discussing lots of timely news and FFRF activism attracting media around the nation, the Foundation interviewed Asheville, N.C.'s first atheist city council member, Cecil Bothwell, who attracted international attention when he won office there, despite a prohibition against atheists running for public office in that state. An investigative reporter, Bothwell is author of the only critical biography of Billy Graham, The Prince of War.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.9	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.1	It's easy if you try.
0:32.6	No hell below us.
0:41.3	Above us only sky Imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today
0:53.3	Happy Happy end of the year to all you dogma-free atheists and indifferent and free agnostics and to everyone else listening.
1:06.0	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is the last free thought radio program of 2009.
1:10.4	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves.
1:14.8	This is the weekend of December 26th and 27th, 2009.
1:19.5	And Scott, our webmaster, tells me this is our 192nd show.
1:24.4	So, Happy New Year to all of you.
1:30.4	This show, Free Thought Radio, broadcasts over many Air America stations and streams from airamerica.com. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production
1:37.5	of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. We're a national organization of atheists and agnostics
1:43.6	and other types of
1:44.8	non-believers, working, especially this month, working hard to keep religion and government separate
1:50.8	and to educate the public about what those of us who don't believe, what do we think? Why are we
1:56.0	here? What are our views and our beliefs and our non-beliefs? And we talked a bit last week about the controversy in Asheville, North Carolina
2:03.5	over seating a new city council member because he is an atheist
2:07.7	and because North Carolina is one of seven states
2:10.6	that actually openly bars atheists from serving in public office.
2:15.5	And we promised to look up this gentleman, and we have followed up on that promise,
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