Guests: Ed Hensley, Plaintiff, Kentucky's Godly Homeland Security Law & Rebecca Kratz, FFRF Staff Attorney
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2009
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The broadcast will include guest Ed Hensley, one of 10 plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit filed to challenge a Kentucky law requiring the state Department of Homeland Security to stress "dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth." Also interviewed will be the Foundation's new staff attorney, Rebecca Kratz, who will report on ending several major state/church violations this month, including Christian proselytization of service men and women in Iraq, as well as religious violations in public schools in California and Florida.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:19.6 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:26.1 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us. |
| 1:02.6 | Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today Happy countdown to the inauguration, everybody, and one that we still hope will be secular and inclusive. |
| 1:04.1 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:07.1 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:12.2 | Free Thought Radio is your weekly antidote to the religious right, and we're broadcasting and streaming live from Air America. |
| 1:14.2 | Our show is produced by the National Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:18.4 | Not freedom of religion. |
| 1:19.6 | Of course, we support that, but freedom from religion. |
| 1:23.1 | The fastest growing group of Americans is those who are free from religion, atheists and agnostics. |
| 1:29.5 | We work to educate the public about the views of those of us who choose none of the above and to keep |
| 1:37.2 | state and church separate, which we will be talking about a lot today. |
| 1:41.0 | And so, Dan, I understand you found a new joke for us. |
| 1:43.4 | I did. This weekend I found a new |
| 1:45.2 | joke. An old rabbi, he was a world-renowned Talmudic scholar, was on his deathbed, and he was |
| 1:51.9 | lapsing in and out of a coma, and his friends and colleagues and relatives were there. At the very |
| 1:57.4 | last, he regained consciousness, and he said, somebody, call me a priest. |
| 2:02.4 | And they looked at him and said, you want a priest? |
| 2:05.0 | And he says, call me a priest. |
| 2:07.0 | I want to convert. |
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