GUEST: WYNNE LEGROW, M.D., ATHEIST CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE and CARTOONIST STEVE BENSON
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2010
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This week Freethought Radio hosts Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker interview Wynne LeGrow, M.D., the Democratic challenger of U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes, who came out last week as an atheist, about his decision to announce his lack of faith as a political candidate. The hosts also catch up with Steve Benson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the Arizona Republic, who will reprise Tunes N Toons with Dan at the 33rd annual FFRF convention in Madison, Wis., Oct. 29-30. Also discussed: the war against religious progress in light of a federal court ruling last week halting federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:14.7 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:18.8 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us, above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:57.0 | Hello happy infidels I'm Annie Laurie Geller and this is Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:00.0 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:03.0 | If atheism is a religion, then baldness is a hair color. |
| 1:09.0 | Atheism is the absence of religion, the absence of faith, the lack of a belief in God. |
| 1:14.6 | This show is the production of the National Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:20.6 | and our listeners are atheists and agnostics. |
| 1:23.6 | This is the weekend of August the 28th and 29th, 2010, and we just passed 16,000 members, working to keep state and church separate through legal activity, through complaints, through lawsuits, and to educate about the views of nonbelievers. |
| 1:42.5 | Great That Radio is broadcasting and streaming from the Progressive Talk, |
| 1:46.6 | the Mike 92-1, Madison, Wisconsin, airing also in Atlanta, |
| 1:51.6 | Anchorage, Grand Rapids, Monterey, California, and podcasting. |
| 1:55.7 | And this week we have two guests. |
| 1:58.2 | We're going to talk in a little bit with an atheist running for Congress. |
| 2:02.8 | On the second half of Free Thought Radio, we'll talk with Win LaGroe, MD of Virginia, who is the bona fide |
| 2:09.7 | Democratic candidate running against Randy Forbes. Last week, Dr. LaGroe came out as an atheist. |
| 2:16.8 | He has had a distinguished medical career from which he recently retired. |
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