Guest: Michael Newdow

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2010

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

FFRF Staff Attorney will serve as Freethought Radio's special substitute host, joining Annie Laurie Gaylor while cohost Dan Barker is in Australia. Rebecca Markert will talk about her recent FFRF state/church victories, then First Amendment hero Michael Newdow will join the hosts to dissect the recent decision by the Ninth Circuit of his challenge of "under God in the Pledge of Allegiance, and the wonderful dissent in Mike's favor by Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:13.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:18.0	It's easy if you try
0:22.6	No hell below us
0:33.6	Above us only sky
0:36.6	Imagine all the people Above us only sky.
0:55.2	Today's the vernal equinox, and happy spring.
0:58.3	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is Free Thought Radio.
1:02.6	And I'd like to introduce my co-host for today, Rebecca Markert.
1:06.7	Rebecca is the staff attorney at the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and she's very graciously agreed to sub this week for my co-host, Dan Barker, who is winging his way back from Australia.
1:14.3	And thanks for giving me some company today, Rebecca. I would have been very lonely in the studio.
1:18.6	Thank you for having me. I'm happy to be here. Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming from the Progressive Talk, the Mike 92-1, Madison, Wisconsin.
1:26.4	And we're broadcasting also in Anchorage, Atlanta, Monterey, Grand Rapids, and streaming from the Mike-921.com.
1:35.9	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and regular listeners will know that FFRF is the nation's largest national association of atheists and agnostics.
1:47.4	We've been working to keep state and church separate since 1978, and that's really going to be
1:52.3	the topic of today's show in honor of Rebecca's appearance here. We're going to concentrate on timely,
1:59.3	legal issues relating to that constitutional principle of the separation between church and state.
2:05.8	We're going to talk about some of Rebecca's recent victories and complaints on behalf of members of the public overstay church violations.
2:12.7	And on the second half of today's show, we're pleased to announce that we will have Michael Newdow as our guests. Listeners to Free Thought Radio are probably aware that a week ago, Thursday,
2:23.2	on March 11th, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a two to one ruling against Michael
2:28.7	Newdow's challenge of the words, Under God, in the school resuscitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
2:37.0	And it was a very terrible decision, wasn't it, Rebecca? Yes.
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