Guest: Matthew LaClair, High School State/Church Activist

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

18-year-old high school senior Matthew LaClair, who received the Thomas Jefferson Student Activist Award last year from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, talks about his latest headline-grabbing complaint about religion in public schools, this one involving a biased text used nationwide. The hosts go after CNN-TV for the media imposition of a religious test for public office, imposed on Democratic candidates in a April 13 "faith forum," and object to public financing of the pope's visit to America.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.9	Imagine there's no heaven
0:22.4	It's easy if you try
0:29.0	No hell below us
0:35.5	Above us only sky
0:41.3	imagine all the people Living for today Quickly, just, you brought up the Bible.
0:57.6	We were talking theology.
0:58.7	Do you have a favorite Bible story?
1:01.1	If you think you just heard a Sunday school teacher, think again.
1:04.7	That was a question by a CNN reporter last week to Hillary Clinton.
1:10.0	We'll be talking about the dismaying prominence of religion in the presidential campaign and more on today's show.
1:16.0	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor for Free Thought Radio.
1:18.5	We're broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.
1:21.6	And I'm Dan Barker.
1:22.7	I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist, the former minister, too.
1:26.5	Annie, co-presidents of the National Freedom from Religion Foundation, which produces this weekly show,
1:32.8	and the foundation is the nation's largest association of non-believers, atheists and agnostics,
1:38.5	working to keep state and church separates.
1:41.3	Our guest today, later in the program, will be an 18-year-old state church separation
1:46.0	activist Matthew LaClair from Carney, New Jersey, who made headlines last week for exposing
1:51.0	bias in a textbook about American government written by James Wilson and John Deulio.
1:57.1	De Ulio, that name sounds familiar.
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