Guest: Max Nielson, high school prayer complainant
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2012
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Tis the season . . . for graduation prayer violations. This week we talk with Max Nielson, the South Carolina high-school senior who complained about student-led prayer at his graduation on May 30, which led to FFRF's most recent lawsuit.
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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. |
| 0:25.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:55.9 | Happy tune are you godless non-believers. |
| 0:59.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:00.9 | I'm an out-of-the-closet atheist, co-founder of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:05.3 | welcoming you to Free Thought Radio, |
| 1:07.3 | the weekly production of FFRF, which is the nation's largest association of |
| 1:13.9 | atheists and agnosticers, working to keep religion out of government. |
| 1:19.5 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. I'm a former preacher |
| 1:25.2 | who saw the light. I am now an atheist. If you want to know |
| 1:29.2 | more about my story, you can read it in my books. One of the books is called Godless, and the book |
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| 1:48.0 | And of course, we podcast all over the world. This is the weekend of June the 2nd, 2012. And by the way, |
| 1:55.3 | today June the 2nd is the birthday of Edward Elgar. You know who that is, Annie Lurie? Edward Algar? |
| 2:01.3 | Yes, I do know, Dan. He's the composer of a lot of music, pomp and circumstances, and we'll be hearing a little bit more about it. |
| 2:08.5 | It's especially relevant because we're talking about graduation prayers in today's show. |
| 2:15.1 | So we'll have some appropriate accompaniment. We're very pleased that we'll |
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