Heresy Trial
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
FFRF lead attorney Rebecca Markert, celebrating 10 years at FFRF, updates us on the legal department's past year of litigation and non-litigation victories for state/church separation. After hearing Joni Mitchell sing "Big Yellow Taxi" and Dan Barker sing "Bread & Roses" (in honor of Annie Laurie's birthday), we talk with United Church of Canada pastor Gretta Vosper, an open atheist and author of With Or Without God, who is undergoing a "heresy trial" even though her congregation wants her to remain in the pulpit.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.7 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.5 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people |
| 0:40.3 | Living for today I Well, I won't back down. |
| 1:05.5 | No, I won't back down. |
| 1:09.7 | You can stand me up at the gates of hell |
| 1:14.0 | but I won't back down |
| 1:17.0 | no I'll stand my ground |
| 1:21.2 | won't be turned around |
| 1:25.3 | and I'll keep this world from dragging me down |
| 1:30.3 | I'm going to stand my ground |
| 1:33.3 | And I won't back down |
| 1:38.3 | Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and I'm not going to back down |
| 1:42.3 | Next week is the midterm election. In spite of efforts |
| 1:46.9 | to suppress the vote, those of us who care about fairness, equality, the future of our nation |
| 1:53.6 | and the separation of state and church agree with Freethinker Tom Petty that we won't back down. Vote, |
| 2:03.3 | like your rights depend on it because they truly do. Because they truly do. I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Free Thought Radio. This is the November |
| 2:10.5 | 1st, 2018 edition of Free Thought Radio. Our engineer today is Buzz Kemper producing the show in the Stephen Yule friendly atheist |
| 2:20.0 | studio in Freethought Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation |
| 2:25.3 | in Madison, Wisconsin. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, the Freedom |
| 2:31.6 | from Religion Foundation, which works to uphold the constitutional separation |
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