This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker, and Annie Laurie Gaylor.

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I'm Annie Laurie Galorg.

And I'm friendly neighborhood atheist Dan Barker.

Free Thought Radio, your weekly antidote to the religious right, is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.

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atheists and agnostics and skeptics and rationalists who are fighting to keep religion and government separate.

Our guest today will be on the second half of Free Thought Radio, and it's a filmmaker Jessica Gerstall, who has made a very timely and very poignant film about her father, a surgeon and athlete, who was recently paralyzed from the neck down.

The film is called The Accidental Advocate, and it follows their quest, as they put it,

to discover hope in the politicized area of science called stem cells, and it's a fascinating

film on its own merit. She and her father visit scientists, politicians on both sides of the equation, other stem cell advocates,

and they have a fascinating roundtable that we'll hear a little of with clergy.

But we invited Jessica to be part of our broadcast today because she is warning that there is a great deal more to be undone

than just President Bush's limitations on embryonic stem cell lines.

So stay tuned for the inside scoop on the barriers to stem cell research in America.

Now, we want to talk about what's happening with the federal challenge of ministerial

Christian prayers and a religious oath at the presidential inauguration,

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