Guest: Former Episcopal Priest-turned-Atheist Dick Hewetson

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🗓️ 1 November 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Topic: Prop 8 & the Religious War Against Gay Rights

The show will be devoted to an expose of the religious backing of Proposition 8, to deny same-sex marriage to California residents via a Nov. 4 ballot initiative. Listen for clips of religious ads, and of religious leaders inveighing against gay marriage. FFRF Lifetime Member and Gay Atheist founder Dick Hewetson will be interviewed about Proposition 8 and the religious war against gay rights

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.6	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.1	It's easy if you try.
0:31.6	No hell below us.
0:39.3	Above us only sky
0:42.3	Imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today.
1:05.0	Could it be Satan?
1:13.9	No, it could not be Satan. This may be the day after Halloween, but the good news, folks, is there is no Satan and there is no hell.
1:20.2	I'm Annie Laurie Galore. Welcome to Free Thought Radio, your weekly antidote to the religious right.
1:24.6	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. Who was that voice?
1:27.5	Dana Carvey, of course. Church lady.
1:28.5	Could it be Satan?
1:32.1	I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist, the atheist of the airwaves.
1:36.4	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.
1:39.4	And the show is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:43.1	the country's largest organization of non-believers, atheists and agnostics,
1:45.1	educating the public about the views of those of us who don't believe, and working to keep state and church separate.
1:50.9	And we want to devote all of today's program to a really important topic, which is Proposition 8 out
1:56.5	in California and all the other initiatives around the country that will be on the November
2:01.0	ballot to ban same-sex marriage and enshrine that ban in state constitutions, because
2:06.5	this is Dan purely a religious issue.
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