Guests: High School Activist Jeff Shott and FFRF Staff Attorney Patrick Elliott
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2012
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Shott, the 17-year-old Tennessee student who dressed up as Jesus on "Fictional Character Day" at his high school, tells us the whole story. FFRF attorney Patrick Elliott brings us up-to-date on the religious legal shenanigans with our lawsuit challenging the Ten Commandments in a Virginia High School, and we celebrate Mother's Day with a tribute to The Women's Medical Fund, founded by FFRF founder Anne Nicol Gaylor.
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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. |
| 0:19.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us us Above us only sky |
| 0:41.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today |
| 0:58.3 | Happy Mother's Day weekend. |
| 1:04.0 | To all you atheists and agnostic moms, yes, there are many of you, and to my own mother. |
| 1:12.9 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and I, excuse me, I joined my mother back in 1976 in founding the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:19.8 | and FFRF was spearheaded for nearly 30 years by Anne Nicole Gaylor as principal founder and president. |
| 1:28.0 | And how firm a foundation it is. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. |
| 1:30.3 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:35.7 | This is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:39.4 | the nation's largest association of Freethinkers. |
| 1:43.1 | We work as a state church watchdog. |
| 1:45.7 | Free Thought Radio broadcasts and streams. |
| 1:48.7 | This is the weekend of May the 12th, 2012, |
| 1:52.8 | from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:55.3 | And, of course, we're podcasting all over the planet. |
| 1:57.8 | In a few minutes, we'll speak in studio with one of FFRF's staff attorneys, Patrick Elliott, |
| 2:01.7 | and he's going to tell us what's going on with a challenge we have |
| 2:05.4 | and the ACLU of Virginia has against a Ten Commandments poster in a public high school, |
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