Guests: FFRF Staff Attorneys Rebecca Markert, Patrick Elliott
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2013
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We've got to fight the battle of church and state. This week we have FFRF attorneys Rebecca Markert and Patrick Elliott in studio to discuss current legal complaints--city prayers in Rapid City, South Dakota, and Onalaska, Wisconsin (a victory), pastors roaming the schools in Conway, Arkansas, proselytizing football coaches in North Carolina--and our newest lawsuit over a Jesus painting on the walls of an Ohio Middle School.
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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 only sky. |
| 0:40.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 1:03.3 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Galore, sending valeted Valentine greetings to all of you working hard to hold up the Enlightenment. |
| 1:04.9 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:08.4 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. This is the February 16th, 2013 broadcast of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:15.2 | The show originates as a broadcast in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:19.7 | We air from the Mike 92.1. |
| 1:23.0 | We stream from the station, and we also broadcast the same weekend and sometimes in the middle of the |
| 1:29.4 | week on other stations around the country in Missouri and in Michigan and in California and |
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| 1:43.4 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production |
| 1:46.1 | of the Freedom from Religion Foundation |
| 1:47.9 | and we work to keep religion out of government |
| 1:50.4 | and to educate the public about non-theism. |
| 1:55.2 | So, did you hear about the pig |
| 1:58.2 | that went to a faith healing meeting? |
| 2:00.8 | No. He came back a cured ham. Okay. Did you hear about the pig that went to a faith healing meeting? |
| 2:01.4 | No. |
| 2:04.5 | He came back a cured ham. |
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