Guest: Nebraska Senator Ernie Chambers

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4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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After hearing a fun news story about our billboard in Janesville, Wisconsin that says “Enjoy Life Now: There is no afterlife,” we dissect the oral arguments heard in the Supreme Court "Greece vs. Galloway” case dealing with prayer at city council. Then we talk with a legal legend, a true hero of freethought, the plucky Nebraska Senator Ernie Chambers (who has served since 1971), whose 1983 lawsuit resulted in the historic “Marsh vs. Chambers” decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:14.8	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:18.8	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
0:41.3	imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today.
0:57.0	We've already. I know the atheists.
0:58.0	We've excluded the atheists.
0:59.0	Hi, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and hello to all you ornery atheists and agnostics who are getting tired of being excluded.
1:09.0	That was Supreme Court Justice Scalia, confirming that atheists are in the out crowd, and by that
1:16.3	I don't mean they're in, but they're outcast.
1:18.8	Welcome to our show today.
1:20.3	We're going to be talking about government prayer and the problems with it on Free Thought
1:23.9	Radio.
1:24.7	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:28.3	This is the November 16th, 2013 broadcast of Free Thought Radio.
1:33.8	We broadcast and stream from right here in Madison, Wisconsin, the Mike 92.1.
1:40.0	We also broadcast in Columbia, Missouri, in Grand Rapids, and in the Ithaca, New York area, and around college station, Texas.
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