Guest: FFRF Senior Staff Attorney Rebecca Markert
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2012
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Is the Freedom From Religion Foundation "roaming the country" looking for state/church violations? FFRF's lead staff attorney Rebecca Markert assures us it is the other way around, as she discusses the many complaints that come into the legal office. We also hear about Freethought in Australia, Philadelphia and North Carolina, legal complaints in Rhode Island and Tennessee, listen to Annie Laurie on FOX News talking about a cross at a fire station, and give tribute to nonbelieving composers Brahms and Tchaikovsky.
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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. |
| 0:19.1 | 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 |
| 0:41.2 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:56.1 | Happy May, I'm Annie Larry Galar, welcoming you to Free Thought Radio, the weekly production |
| 1:02.5 | of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, the nation's largest association of freethinkers |
| 1:08.4 | here in Madison, Wisconsin, were located, atheists and agnostic, |
| 1:12.7 | working as a state church watchdog to preserve the constitutional principle of the separation |
| 1:18.1 | between state and church. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:25.1 | This is the weekend of May the 5th, 2012. Free Thought Radio broadcasts and streams |
| 1:32.0 | from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin, and in other broadcasting areas. And we also |
| 1:38.7 | podcast everywhere. Joining us for the second half of Free Thought Radio will be FFRF's senior staff attorney Rebecca Markert |
| 1:46.6 | who's going to recap for you how busy, how besieged our legal department is, some of the most interesting |
| 1:53.6 | recent violations. We now have four staff attorneys and they're receiving hundreds of reports |
| 1:59.5 | of state church violations that we try to act on as many as we can. |
| 2:03.1 | Are we roaming the country looking for violations? |
| 2:05.4 | No, they are finding us. |
| 2:08.0 | And Rebecca will give you the inside scoop. |
| 2:10.9 | Now, Dan, you just came back from Nittany PA. |
| 2:13.6 | Nittany, well, that's Nittany Valley, the Nittany Free Thoughts Association, which is one of our chapters. |
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