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Freethought Radio

Guest: Mitch Kahle

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6578 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2012

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Nothing is as divisive as church in government. We talk with Mitch Kahle, who stopped Senate prayers in Hawaii. Mitch has just won a major lawsuit defending his rights.

Transcript

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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, Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today Hello, all you moral, moral relativists, you who are too moral to brag about it.

1:01.8

I'm Annie Laurie Geller, welcoming you to Free Thought Radio.

1:05.0

And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.

1:09.3

This show is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation. We are the

1:14.2

nation's largest association of free thinkers. That's atheists and agnostics. We work as a watchdog

1:22.1

to protect the constitutional wall of separation between church and state. And this is the weekend of March 17th and 18th, 2012,

1:30.8

and Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming from the Mike 92.1, Madison, Wisconsin,

1:36.3

and podcasting everywhere.

1:38.7

Our guest on the second half of today's show will be Mitch Kale.

1:42.3

We've had him on before, but there's an exciting new development in his story. He's the activist from Hawaii. He was last year's free thinker

1:50.6

of the year, you might remember, we named him, the Freedom from Religion Foundation gave him an award

1:56.1

for ending prayers in the Hawaii Senate. During that time, he was roughed up. He was prosecuted for

2:04.4

protesting prayers, but those charges were dropped, and this week he won his lawsuit, his civil

2:11.4

lawsuit against the Senate for manhandling and jailing him. And he'll be on the second half of

2:16.9

today's show to talk all about that.

2:19.0

Unconstitutional government prayer will be the theme of our show today.

2:22.7

But before we get to a lot of news about that, this is the last chance you have to sign up for

2:31.1

the Reason Rally.

2:33.3

We hope to see many of you there at the Reason Rally in Washington,

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