Guest: Joann Bell, executive director, ACLU of Oklahoma Foundation

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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After parsing Pres. Obama's historic speech to Muslims in Cairo on June 4 for its religious content, the hosts will interview the director of the ACLU of Okahoma Foundation, Joann Bell. Joann will recount her harrowing experience challenging religious indoctrination at an Oklahoma public school in the 1980s, which prompted her activism with the ACLU. A new state/church victory in Oklahoma will be discussed.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.8	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.1	It's easy if you try.
0:32.6	No hell below us.
0:39.3	Above us only sky
0:42.3	Imagine all the people
0:48.3	living for the day.
0:57.0	Hello all you heathens and heretics across America. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:02.5	And hello all you blasphemers, all you true Americans. I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:09.3	Welcome to Free Thought Radio, the Freedom from Religion Foundation's weekly broadcast,
1:14.6	and your antidote to the domination of our public airwaves by the religious right.
1:19.3	And blasphemy, by the way, is a victimless crime, so we should be proud to be blasphemers.
1:24.8	This show is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:28.2	the nation's largest organization of Freethinkers.
1:31.3	We use that word free thinkers refer to atheists and agnostics
1:34.3	and other types of non-believers, irreligious and such.
1:37.7	We work to keep religion and government strictly separate
1:40.8	and to educate the public about the views of those of us
1:43.8	who are none of the
1:44.8	above, the atheists, the agnostics, the non-believers.
1:47.7	Our guest today who will be joining us in the second half of Free Thought Radio will be Joanne Bell.
1:52.7	She's director of the ACLU of Oklahoma.
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