Makin Mischief
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
FFRF attorney Sam Grover helps us dissect the disappointing Carson v. Makin decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that now allows public tax dollars to directly fund religious education. Then we hear from four winners of FFRF's David Hudak Memorial student essay contest for Black, Indigenous and People of Color: Galilea Baca (1st-place, pictured), Fadima Tall, Tylinn Wilson and Everett Viego. Then the new student scholar for FFRF and Secular Students of America Sami Al Asadi explains how he became an atheist and an activist.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Welcome to VreetRadradi |
| 0:52.3 | And this, welcome to the official first broadcast of summer 2022. |
| 1:00.8 | The Summer of Our Discontent, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 1:04.6 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:06.1 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:13.3 | And in a minute you'll tell us why it's the summer of our discontent, won't you? Annie Lurie. This is the June 23rd, 2022 episode of Free Thought |
| 1:21.4 | Radio. Grant Blashka, who's with Audio for the Arts, is engineering this show in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:32.7 | Free Thought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:39.3 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:43.3 | which has two purposes |
| 1:44.5 | to educate you, the public, about the views of non-theists. We serve as the nation's largest |
| 1:51.3 | association of free thinkers over 36,000, atheists, agnostic, skeptics, and so on, and we work |
| 1:58.0 | diligently as a state church watchdog to try to bolster and uphold that constitutional wall of separation between church and state, which is really being besieged, if not torn down. |
| 2:12.3 | And we'll talk a lot about that in a minute. |
| 2:14.1 | In our secular country, can public tax dollars be used to fund religious |
| 2:19.5 | education? According to the disappointing decision released this week in Carson v. Macon, |
| 2:27.3 | by the current extremist supermajority on the Supreme Court, those tax dollars now can be used to fund religious education. |
| 2:37.2 | In a few minutes, we will talk with FFRF attorney Sam Grover about this radical new departure |
| 2:43.2 | by the court that, according to the dissenters, abandons long-standing doctrine about the separation of state and church. |
| 2:52.6 | After that, we will hear some very moving remarks from winners of last year's essay competition |
| 2:59.6 | for black, indigenous people of color students, which somehow has never aired before, |
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