GUEST: PROFESSOR ERWIN CHEMERINSKY

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4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2010

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Legal scholar Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California-Irvine School of Law, will be the special guest. Prof. Chemerinsky will discuss his role in exposing the unconstitutionality of the IRS parish exemption benefiting clergy, which FFRF is now challenging in federal court.

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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.
0:13.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:18.0	It's easy if you try
0:22.6	No hell below us
0:29.6	Above us only sky
0:35.6	Imagine all the people living for the day.
0:48.3	Happy Juneteenth.
0:52.3	Today marks the 145th anniversary of Juneteenth. June 19th is celebrated as an observance of African American Emancipation Day. In cities around the United States, it's a good time to celebrate emancipation from all forms of slavery, including the slavery of the mind. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:13.3	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood, atheist of the airwaves.
1:18.0	And as Annie Laurie said, this is the weekend of June the 19th, 2010.
1:24.3	Free Thought Radio, as always, is broadcasting and streaming from Madison. It's the progressive talk, the Mike 902-1. Also broadcasting out of Atlanta, Ingrid, Grand Rapids, Monterey. I met some of you Monterey listeners recently when I was in San Jose, and we're podcasting everywhere.
1:40.5	This show, Free Thought Radio, is produced by the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
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1:52.9	That's our main purpose, but we also work to educate the public about the views of the none of the above,
1:58.0	those of us who are free from religion.
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2:13.0	as well as our legal efforts, in keeping religion and government separate.
2:16.3	And we're really pleased, speaking of legal legal efforts to announce that later on the show,
2:19.9	we'll be speaking with a true legal expert, Professor Erwin Chimerenski,
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