Guest: Marci Hamilton

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In The News: "A Tale of Three Cities." FFRF complains about mixing religion and government in Green Bay (WI), Birmingham (AL), and Sand Point (ID). We welcome spring with music from Richard Rodgers and Yip Harburg, and celebrate the birthday of Elton John by hearing his freethought song "This Train Don't Stop Here Any More." Then we talk with prominent attorney Marci Hamilton, author of God vs. The Gavel, who argued and won a Supreme Court lawsuit challenging the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and who wrote FFRF's Supreme Court amicus brief challenging Hobby Lobby's refusal to honor the contraceptive mandate on religious grounds.

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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.
0:19.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:21.6	It's easy if you try.
0:27.6	No hell below us
0:41.3	Above us only sky Imagine all the people
0:48.3	living for today I am starry-eyed and vaguely discontented
1:02.3	Like a nightingale without a song to sing
1:09.0	Why should I have spring fever thought a song to sing.
1:21.1	Why should I have spring fever when it isn't even spring?
1:24.2	Happy spring equinox.
1:25.7	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:35.2	And actually, it might as well still be winter here in Madison, Wisconsin, on this first full weekend of spring, where we all have cabin fever.
1:44.4	I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. That song, it might as well be spring, which was sung by Rosemary Clooney, is still appropriate for Free Thought Radio because that song was written by an atheist, Richard Rogers.
1:52.8	And Rosemary Clooney's nephew, the actor George Clooney, is also a freethinker, so there's another connection.
1:58.8	Well, we're just full of connections on Free Thought Radio, aren't we? Later, we'll play two more songs about Spring, written by famous
2:08.3	free-thinking songwriters. Today is the March 22nd, 2014 broadcast of Free Thought Radio.
2:15.8	This show streams from, and if you want to stream, you go to IHeart
2:19.3	Radio. It streams from, and is produced at, and broadcast from the Mike 92.1, right here in
2:27.2	Madison, Wisconsin, where the Freedom from Religion Foundation has our national headquarters.
2:32.5	Free Thought Radio also broadcasts in a number of other states. You
2:36.9	might be listening to us in New York or in California, up in the Central California area, in Michigan,
2:43.1	or in central Missouri, or right just about in the middle of Texas, where College Station is.
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