Guests: Elissa Wall and Sarah Braasch
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2008
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Elissa Wall, author of "Stolen Innocence," will talk about being married against her will at age 14 to an adult in her polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints community in Utah. Wall was the key witness in the criminal trial which convicted FLDS patriarch Warren Jeffs of being an accomplice to rape. The show will also feature Sarah Braasch, FFRF's legal intern, who will talk about her research into unlawful Christian prayers opening the Wisconsin State Assembly. Her interview will include sound bites of a legislator casting the "Evil One" out of the chambers!
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with co-host Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:16.9 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:20.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:26.2 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:32.5 | No hell below us. |
| 0:38.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today. |
| 1:02.4 | Happy summer solstice to everyone, especially are you hellbound pagans and infidels? |
| 1:04.1 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore. |
| 1:08.5 | Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America. |
| 1:11.3 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:16.0 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the National Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:23.8 | which is producing this show, an organization of atheists and agnostics working to keep state and church separate. |
| 1:32.3 | Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn on Tuesday, June the 17th, wrote a column for his blog, |
| 1:33.4 | and I want to read it to. |
| 1:35.5 | It's called Wither the Rath of God. |
| 1:40.9 | Not to be flip about all the natural disasters that have been pummeling the Midwest, |
| 1:46.1 | vicious tornadoes and the ever-worsening floods, but why is California so darn pleasant today? It's 60 degrees and clear right now in San Francisco, even though scores of |
| 1:51.3 | gay couples are taking out marriage licenses and getting hitched during the first day that |
| 1:56.1 | same-sex marriage is legal in the Golden State. I recall howent America issued a statement saying Hurricane Katrina was God's way of signaling |
| 2:05.4 | his objection to a gay festival plan for New Orleans. |
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