Pandemic Pandering
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
President Trump and public officials continue to pander to the Religious Right during the pandemic. FFRF legal fellow Dante Harootunian announces a state/church victory removing a Christian cross from a city mural in Illinois. After hearing the freethinking song "Let The Mystery Be" by Iris Dement, we talk with The Nation columnist Katha Pollitt about her recent column "Why Did the ERA Die? FX's 'Mrs. America' Has Some Answers."
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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. |
| 0:21.6 | It's easy if you try. |
| 0:27.6 | No hell below us, Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:58.7 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore. |
| 1:02.7 | And happy end of May. |
| 1:05.0 | It hasn't been a very happy May. |
| 1:10.3 | Hitting that grim milestone of 100,000 deaths here in the United States, |
| 1:16.2 | the terrible, brutal murder of George Floyd there in Minneapolis that everybody must condemn. But let us hope that we will be graduating |
| 1:21.5 | to better news in June. And we do have a chockful show for you, very interesting show for you |
| 1:27.3 | today, to take your mind off some of this. |
| 1:29.4 | And I'm here too. I'm Dan Barker, co-president of FFRF. This is the May 28th, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:39.5 | Once again, the great Buzz Kemper is producing this show in his recording studio, Audio for the Arts, |
| 1:47.6 | which is in downtown Madison, while Annie Laurie and I are hosting from our Safer at Home studio |
| 1:53.0 | about three miles away, which is Madison, Wisconsin, is the headquarters of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 2:00.1 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation since |
| 2:05.6 | 2006, broadcasting and podcasting. |
| 2:08.6 | And FFRF, of course, does so much more. |
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| 2:21.0 | Over 32,000 members. If you are a member of FFRF supporting our state church litigation and work to keep |
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