Guest: Victorious Rhode Island litigant Jessica Ahlquist
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2012
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This week we'll celebrate Roe v. Wade with journalist Sunsara Taylor. Then, we'll interview Jessica Ahlquist, the besieged 16 year old litigant in a Rhode Island school prayer lawsuit. Her harassment is an object lesson in why religion does not belong in our public schools.
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | 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. |
| 0:40.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Godless, or if you prefer, God-free greetings. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, welcoming you to Freethought Radio, |
| 1:04.0 | the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:08.6 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:12.6 | This is the weekend of January 28 and 29, 2012. |
| 1:17.6 | Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. |
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| 1:35.6 | Annie Laurie and I are co-directors of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Annie Laura, you were fortunate to be a third generation free thinker. |
| 1:44.8 | You grew up with no religion at all. |
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| 1:47.3 | But me, I had to claw my way out of the darkness. |
| 1:51.8 | I was raised in a religious family. |
| 1:53.5 | I spent 19 years preaching the gospel before finding out that there's no baby in that bathwater. |
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