Permanent Injunction
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After we cover state/church news in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Maryland, FFRF attorney Chris Line dissects the so-called "Religious Liberty Commission" and FFRF attorney Nancy Noet tells us about this week's decision by an Arkansas court permanently enjoining the state from displaying the Ten Commandments in public classrooms.
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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. |
| 0:44.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. Welcome to Feed Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:59.9 | And I'm Dan Barker, and Free Thought Radio is radio for the rest of us. |
| 1:05.0 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:10.4 | This is the March 19th, 2026 episode of Freethought Radio, |
| 1:14.8 | recording in the Stephen Ull friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, which is our national headquarters |
| 1:21.7 | in Madison, Wisconsin. And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of The Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 1:30.6 | which is actually having our 50th anniversary year. |
| 1:35.4 | In 2026, we were founded regionally in 1976. |
| 1:40.0 | My mother and I, when I was a college student, founded FFRF as a regional group. It will have its |
| 1:46.5 | official national anniversary in two years, but still, that's an august anniversary. And it started with |
| 1:54.9 | two of us, and now there's over 41,000 of us. And we work to keep religion out of government |
| 2:00.1 | and to educate the public. |
| 2:02.9 | That includes you about the views of non-believers, non-theists. We work so that reason and our |
| 2:10.0 | secular constitution will prevail, and we would love to have you join us at ffrf.org. |
| 2:17.5 | And we have some really great news to report today. |
| 2:20.6 | This Monday, a federal district court issued a permanent injunction |
| 2:25.2 | prohibiting a number of school districts in Arkansas |
| 2:28.5 | from implementing a new state law requiring all public schools to display |
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