Recent, successful state/church litigants

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2007

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week's radio show parses Mitt Romney's "faith in America" speech, reports on seasonal state/church entanglements, and features interviews with two recent victors in the legal battle to keep church and state separate. Guest Ray Ideus talks about his victory this week over religion at the Spokane police department. Kay Staley talks about her major victory at the Supreme Court level, removing a monument to the bible from government steps in Houston. Listen in, get acquainted with freethinkers and enjoy some good news!

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your host, Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.9	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.0	It's easy if you try.
0:32.1	No hell below us.
0:41.8	Above us only sky imagine all the people
0:46.3	living for today.
0:57.4	Reason's greetings to everyone and happy Bill of Rights Day.
1:02.0	December 15, 1791 marked the date that the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
1:09.0	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from A.S. Constitution was ratified. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. Welcome to Freethought Radio.
1:12.1	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.
1:15.9	And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist, a former preacher who saw the light.
1:22.0	Free Thought Radio is brought to you by the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:25.8	We're a national association of about 12,000 atheists and agnostics working to keep state and church
1:32.2	separate.
1:32.9	And it's been an eventful week for state church news.
1:35.6	It's always an eventful month in December.
1:38.0	We're pleased that later in the hour, Free Thought Radio will be joined by two recent victors
1:42.2	in that battle to keep church and state separate. We'll be talking
1:45.7	with Kay Staley, an attorney in Houston, who took and just won the final round of a lawsuit,
1:51.2	challenging a huge Bible display that was parked at the entrance of the Harris County Government
1:56.5	building there in Houston. She'll be talking with us about why she sued to remove this display of
2:01.8	an open Bible and how she won that case. And we'll also talk later with Ray Ideus. He's a former
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