Let's All Give Thanks
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On our Thanksgiving show, we give thanks where thanks is due. We hear the new song "Let's All Give Thanks," written by Dan Barker and sung by Tahira Clayton and the Godless Gospel singers. Then FFRF Senior Counsel Patrick Elliott talks about the amicus brief FFRF has filed in the "303 Creative" Supreme Court case about a Christian business owner who wants to discriminate against LGBTQ customers.
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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. |
| 0:25.7 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:31.6 | No hell below us. |
| 0:39.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:42.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today. |
| 1:14.0 | All right for the pumpkin pie. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and that, of course, is over the river and through the woods. |
| 1:19.7 | A traditional song, often sung at Thanksgiving as people are traveling to meet with family |
| 1:24.8 | and friends. |
| 1:26.4 | Did you know that there's a free thought connection? |
| 1:29.1 | The lyricist of that song was Lydia Maria Child, the early 19th century free-thinking author, poet |
| 1:38.3 | abolitionist, and activist for Native American rights and women's rights. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:47.8 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:53.7 | This is the Thanksgiving, November 24th, 2022 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 2:00.2 | Buzz Kemper, with Audio for the Arts as our engineer in the Stephen Ool friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, |
| 2:07.6 | the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:13.6 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of FFRF, which has almost 40,000 members, mainly Freethinkers, atheists, and agnostics, and we work to keep religion out of government and out of politics, and we could use your help, and we'd love to be 50,000 next year. |
| 2:33.5 | So you can go to FFRf.org and ask for info on |
| 2:38.6 | the home page or you can just go to the join page and become a member and we would be very |
| 2:43.3 | grateful. We've been reporting over the years about the phenomenal growth of the nuns, |
| 2:50.4 | not like Catholic nuns, N-O-N-E-S. The nuns are those who identify |
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