Happy Birthday, George Gershwin

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Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

FFRF tells high court to stop city prayer. We celebrate the equinox and end the summer by celebrating the birthday of nonbelieving composer George Gershwin, who wrote "Summertime" and "It Ain't Necessarily So." Then we discuss the amicus filed by FFRF in the Greece, NY, city-prayer case before the Supreme Court, with our two staff attorneys who drafted the brief: Patrick Elliott and Andrew Seidel.

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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, above us only sky
0:41.3	imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today
0:59.3	at Pianam all youinkers who don't fall for religion.
1:01.9	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome to Free Thought Radio.
1:03.5	Annie Laurie made up joke.
1:05.2	You don't fall for religion. Once in a while, I do make a joke.
1:06.7	I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist.
1:09.8	This is, as Annie Laurie said, the September 21st, 2013 broadcast of Free Thought Radio.
1:17.2	The autumnal equinox, by the way, falls on September the 22nd, which is tomorrow actually this year.
1:25.6	And here's to another natural holiday that hasn't been taken over by religious superstition.
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