Guest: Veteran reporter Linda Greenhouse
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2010
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Topic: Supreme Challenges
In a sneak preview for FFRF's upcoming national convention, convention speaker Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times for 30 years, will talk about her new book on Roe v. Wade, and state/church issues before the high court. The hosts will also play amusing clips about religion and Christine O'Donnell, include coverage of a "war of the billboards" inaugurated by its Tulsa "Atheism is OK in Oklahoma" billboard, and talk about why atheists and agnostics fared so well on this week's PEW survey finding biblical illiteracy among believers.
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| 1:50.1 | The 33rd annual FFRF convention is taking place at the end of this month |
| 1:55.3 | on Halloween weekend at the Concourse Hotel in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. We open festivities at 3 p.m. on Friday, October 29th, and continue all day Saturday, followed by the Sunday morning membership and board meetings for those who are members of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. And one of the big name speakers at our convention |
| 2:18.9 | is going to give us a preview today. |
| 2:22.7 | Her name is Linda Greenhouse. |
| 2:24.5 | She's covered the Supreme Court for 30 years for the New York Times, |
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