Leaving the LDS Fold

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🗓️ 7 December 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In the News: Two seasonal state/church victories in Indiana; new FFRF lawsuit in New Jersey challenging public money to churches; Winter Solstice signs around the country; Nonbelief Relief report. After hearing Dan’s “Salt Lake City Blues,” we talk with Utah attorney Mark Naugle about how he has helped more than 3,000 people leave the Mormon Church, mainly as a result of the LDS position on same-sex couples.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:14.7	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
0:41.1	imagine all the people
0:47.3	living for today
1:11.1	Happy December, welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. And although there is no war on Christmas, what a fabrication of Fox Radio, we like to say that at this time of year we do like to lob a few soft snowballs. Snowballs at the ubiquitous nativity scenes and Christmas carols and the assumption that Christians
1:17.9	owned December. I'm Dan Barker, co-host, a free thought radio, sometimes called your friendly
1:23.5	neighborhood atheist of the airwaves. This is the December 5th, 2015 edition of Freethought Radio, produced broadcasting and streaming from the Mike 92.1 in Madison, Wisconsin, Saturdays at 11 a.m. Central. We also broadcast on other stations in W-O-O-O-L in Vermont and New Hampshire, WPRR, and Grand Rapids,
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2:11.2	And hello to you podcast listeners. There's approximately 15,000 of you.
2:17.0	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and we have two purposes.
2:22.3	We work to educate the public about non-theism, so our membership is personally free from religion,
2:29.3	whether you call yourself an atheist, agnostic, skeptic, secular humanist, we like to joke we all disbelieve
2:35.7	in the same gods, and we also work very hard to protect the constitutional principle of
2:42.0	separation between state and church.
2:43.9	But we are not just a state church watchdog.
2:46.1	We do both things.
2:48.0	Today we're going to talk with Mark Nagel.
2:50.6	He's the Utah attorney who's helping Mormons leave. do both things. Today we're going to talk with Mark Noggle.
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