Guests: Rita Swan, CHILD; Sue Robinson, local activist Topics: Prayer by Government Decree

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2009

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

An important interview with Rita Swan, director of Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty, will focus on insidious amendments to healthcare reform bills that would force medical insurers to cover prayer as medicine. Local California atheist and Lifetime FFRF'er Sue Robinson will talk about why she testified against government prayer in Turlock, Calif., where there has been heated debate over an FFRF state/church complaint Bonus: news coverage of FFRF's mini-blitz of freethought billboards in Detroit.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker, and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.9	Imagine there's no heaven.
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0:58.0	Hello, you lovely heathens and infidels
1:00.0	carrying the banner of the Enlightenment
1:02.0	and Freethought across our nation.
1:04.0	I'm Annie Laurie Galore.
1:06.0	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:10.0	Hello, and happy fall to all you fallen freethinkers.
1:12.8	This is Freethought Radio.
1:14.5	Free Thought Radio is the only nationally syndicated talk show that is broadcast for atheists, agnostics,
1:21.1	and supporters of the constitutional principle of the separation between church and state.
1:26.6	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting over many Air America stations.
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1:35.1	And it's the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, where the nation's largest
1:40.3	group of atheists and agnostics and other types of non-believers, educating the public about the fact that we are here and that we want a secular government.
1:50.8	We have a lively show.
1:52.2	After a little news, we'll be talking with a newsmaker about a state church conflict in Turlick, California.
1:58.0	Turlock.
1:58.9	Foundation lifetime member Sue Robinson will join us in a few minutes to talk about why she went before the Turlock City Council to urge them to stop praying at government meetings.
2:08.3	And it's a huge controversy in Turlock and other cities around the nation where the foundation has asked that illegal prayer by government stop.
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