Guest: Katherine Stewart
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2013
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It's bad news for the Good News Club. Listen to excerpts of the speech given before FFRF's October 2012 convention in Portland, Oregon, by Katherine Stewart, journalist and author of The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children. Also hear "One Sweet Morning," a peace anthem heralding the spring, lyrics by nontheistic songwriter Yip Harburg.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:14.7 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:18.8 | 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 living for today. Welcome to Free Thought Radio, all you clusters of icons. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore. |
| 1:01.6 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist with the good news |
| 1:06.6 | that there's no hell below us, above us only sky. |
| 1:12.2 | This is March 23, 2013. |
| 1:15.0 | Free Thought Radio streams and broadcast from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin, |
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| 1:24.2 | in parts of New York, and in Monterey, California. |
| 1:27.5 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:32.0 | and FFRF is the nation's largest association of atheist agnostics and other free thinkers, |
| 1:38.2 | and we work to keep religion out of government. |
| 1:40.9 | Today we're going to go right to our guest, Catherine Stewart. |
| 1:45.0 | She's the author of The Good News Club, the Christian Rights, Stealth Assault on America's Children. |
| 1:51.8 | She's an investigative journalist. |
| 1:54.4 | And what we're going to feature on today's show is a major excerpt of Catherine Stewart's |
| 1:59.7 | address to the 2012 National Annual Convention of the Freedom |
| 2:04.4 | from Religion Foundation in Portland, Oregon last October. I've spent the last four years |
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