Guest: FFRF attorney Alvin Harris
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2011
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Are those of us who work for state/church separation Satanists? Terrorists? No, we're first amendment fundamentalists. We'll talk about FFRF's demand that a Tennessee town remove a lighted cross from its water tower. We discuss with our attorney, Alvin Harris, of Nashville.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 1:04.0 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Galar, and hello to all of you non-devil worshippers, and welcome to Free Thought Radio, radio for the rest of us. |
| 1:06.8 | And I'm Dan Barker, I'm here, and why did you call us non-devil worshippers? |
| 1:11.6 | Well, we'll talk about that later in the show. |
| 1:13.6 | Because a mayor of a town called us terrorists and devil worshippers. |
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| 1:23.0 | This is the October 15th, 2011 broadcast of Free Thought Radio. |
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