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Freethought Radio

Guest: Richard Bolton, FFRF Litigation Attorney

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6578 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2010

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

FFRF Litigation Attorney Richard Bolton and co-hosts celebrate FFRF's court victory declaring the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional.

Transcript

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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

0:29.6

Above us only sky

0:35.6

Imagine all the people

0:41.3

Living for the day

0:49.3

We are the champions.

0:57.8

We are the champions.

1:01.5

Hi, Mani Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to Pritha. And as you can tell from that intro, we're still basking in our federal court victory,

1:06.8

declaring the National Day of Prayer Unconstitutional.

1:09.8

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

1:13.0

We were sort of dancing and singing a song like that last Thursday when the good news came down about that victory.

1:18.8

This is the weekend of April the 24th, 2010.

1:24.0

And this is what?

1:24.9

We're entering our fifth year this month of Free Thought Radio. We're completing four complete years of Free Thought Radio today.

1:31.3

And by way of introduction for any new listeners, I'm a third generation free thinker on my mother's side of the family.

1:38.3

And I'm one of the three original founders of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

1:42.3

And that was back when I was a college student

1:45.0

with my mother, Anne Gaylor, and a Milwaukee gentleman. And we've gone from three members

1:50.3

and a dining room table operation to being the largest national association of atheists and agnostics

1:56.3

in the country. We now have 14,400. And that a free thinker means someone who forms their opinion

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