Guest: Patrick Elliot, FFRF Legal Assistant

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🗓️ 17 May 2010

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

First, a recap on FFRF's National Day of Prayer court victory and how it panned out during the National Day of Prayer -- including lots of media clips and an ode to Lena Horne. Then FFRF's newest staff attorney, Patrick Elliott, a new law school grad and an atheist, will discuss what it's been like working at FFRF and the many state/church violations he has been untangling.

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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. Hello, happy Heathens. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to Free Thought Radio. This is the weekend of May 15th, 2010. Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming from the progressive talk, the Mike 92-1, Madison, Wisconsin. And a warm hello to listeners in Anchorage, Atlanta, Monterey, and Grand Rapids, as well as to everyone who's listening to be a podcast.
1:14.6	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, a group that I was a co-founder of back in 1976.
1:23.0	This is aging me as a college student with my mother, Anne Galore, and it went national in 1978,
1:29.4	and we work for the separation of church and state, and our members are personally free from religion.
1:35.3	They are atheists, agnostic, skeptics, whatever you like to call yourself, we all disbelieve in the same God.
1:41.6	And this is a first for me and for this show, since it began about
1:45.3	four years ago. I am flying solo. Thankfully, God is not my co-pilot, but I am without co-host
1:52.5	Dan Barker because Dan is on a tour in California. He was speaking to a free thought convention
1:58.5	last weekend. He has gone to the University of
2:01.6	California Irvine, a sponsored by a student free thought club, talking about let's call
2:06.0	the whole thing off, FFRF's National Day of Prayer Victory. He's been at the University of
2:11.6	California, Santa Barbara, onto the lovely city of San Luis Obispo, a Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. And this weekend, he's speaking at
2:20.8	the Humanist Society at their 15th anniversary celebration. So Dan will be back next week,
2:26.3	and he sends his irreverent greetings. Our guests later on today's show is very special. Patrick
2:32.9	Elliott is a young freethinker, and he'll be joining me in the studio,
2:37.3	where I'm here with our producer, engineer Brian Tarani. And Patrick is FFRF's law clerk at the moment.
2:44.5	He's a recent grad of the University of Wisconsin Law School, and he's been kindly working as a paralegal,
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