Guests:Damon Fowler, High school senior secular activist, Rhonda Dorle, Tulsa FFRF activist
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2011
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Topic: Secular activism in the bible belt
Damon Fowler talks about how things got ugly in his small Louisiana town and school when he courageously protested illegal graduation prayers last week. Oklahoma native and atheist Rhonda Dorle, local coordinator for FFRF's Tulsa "Out of the Closet" billboard campaign, talks about that exciting and positive new campaign.
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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. |
| 0:18.8 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us Above us |
| 0:39.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:43.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:53.3 | Have a safe, secular living for today. |
| 1:00.8 | Have a safe, secular, and religion-free Memorial Day weekend. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Annie Laurie Gellor, and welcome to Freethought Radio, your weekly antidote to the religious right. |
| 1:06.8 | And I'm Dan Barker, the other voice on Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:10.4 | I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. This is the weekend of May 28th, 2011, and this show originates from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. Free Thought Radio also streams from the station and airs in Atlanta, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Monterey, New York City. For those of you who are early risers and our show podcasts everywhere throughout the natural, not the supernatural, but throughout the natural universe. |
| 1:40.5 | We have two timely guests today from Bastrop, Louisiana. We will be talking with a young man who's made quite an impact as a secular activist. If not in his own town over the internet, Damon Fowler will be FFRF's newest student activist honoree. We are going to be honoring him because he protested illegal graduation |
| 2:02.8 | prayers at his high school graduation last week in Bastrop, Louisiana. And then in the second |
| 2:07.7 | half of the show, we'll talk with an FFRF member, a member of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:13.8 | who's an activist in Tulsa, Oklahoma. |
| 2:23.8 | She's one of the 10 new out-of-the-closet billboards that just went up there for a month. |
| 2:25.3 | She's on one of the billboards. |
| 2:26.8 | She is. |
| 2:27.5 | She's on one of them. |
| 2:28.0 | What did I say? |
| 2:29.1 | She is a billboard. |
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