Guest: Champion of the First Amendment: Jim McCollum
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2008
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Jim McCollum, who at age 10 became the center of a huge legal battle against religious instruction in the public schools, will talk about the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision, McCollum v. Board of Education, keeping schools free of indoctrination. The show will also pay homage to several other anniversaries of significant Supreme court decisions affirming separation between church and state. Listen for cameos of famed litigants Roy Torcaso, Ed Schempp and Vashti McCollum.
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| 1:37.6 | And I want to... |
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| 1:43.9 | They just don't believe because they, you know, they don't know either way. Learn something. Or agnostics, you can call them. Ignostics. And thank you for sending in the jokes. I asked last week if anybody had any more jokes to tell. And I got some good email jokes. One of them is about this guy who used to go |
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