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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

FFRF's director of strategic response, Andrew L. Seidel, joins host Annie Laurie Gaylor for a lively dissection of the oral arguments last week in the Supreme Court's Bladensburg cross case, including clip excerpts of the arguments and Andrew's eye-witness impressions. Then they interview David Steketee about his exciting win Monday in FFRF's successful challenge of billions of tax dollars for church repairs, in clear violation of the N.J. state constitution. This week the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of FFRF's victory, making it final. Then we play a rousing, timely pep talk on the recent threats to secular government by Larry Decker, until recently the executive director of Secular Coalition for America, who spoke at FFRF's 2018 annual convention. By the way, you'll hear musical teasers of Ravel, an atheist who was born on March 7, 1875. We also give a shoutout to International Women's Day and the anniversary of the landmark McCollum v. Board of Education case (both on March 8.)

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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.
0:14.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:17.0	It's easy if you try
0:23.6	No hell below us
0:29.6	Above us only sky
0:36.6	Imagine all the people Above us only sky.
0:48.2	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:52.0	Welcome to Fethar Radio.
0:56.7	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is our March 7th, 2019 edition.
1:05.4	Noah Gilfillon is our engineer, producing the show in the Stephen Yule, friendly atheist studio in Free Thought Hall,
1:10.3	the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:15.2	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:20.5	and FFRF has two purposes to work for the separation of church and state,
1:29.1	and to serve as a national or North American association for those of us who are personally free from religion,
1:31.1	atheists, agnostic, skeptics.
1:38.5	Today is the anniversary of the birth of the French composer Maurice Ravel, born March 7, 1875.
1:40.5	Ravel was not religious.
1:43.7	He termed himself openly an atheist. So listen for some of Ravel's music during today's show, including LaValle's and what else, Bolero. And other dates we want to commemorate include the landmark lawsuit, McCullum versus Board of Education, issued March 8th, 1948, the first time the Supreme Court ruled that you cannot have
2:02.0	religious instruction in the public schools and all the other wonderful precedence against religion
2:08.0	in the schools is based on that decision. And it's also International Women's Day tomorrow,
2:14.6	March 8th, 1911. And you may have noticed that Dan Barker, my co-host, is still on tour.
2:20.8	Tonight, he's speaking to the secular students at the University of Texas in Arlington,
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