"Religion and Reproductive Rights"

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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We cover state/church news at the federal and state levels and talk about a new global study showing (unsurprisingly) that Christians are not happier than atheists. After hearing the song "Adrift On A Star," words by freethinking lyricist Yip Harburg and music by Dan Barker, we talk with FFRF's Reproductive Rights intern Barbara Alvarez about the growing threats to abortion rights from religiously motivated legislators.

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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.
0:13.5	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:20.0	It's easy if you try
0:22.6	No hell below us
0:33.6	Above us only sky
0:36.6	Imagine all the people Above us only sky.
0:48.3	Imagine all the people living for today.
0:52.3	Welcome to Free Thought Radio.
0:56.2	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and this is radio for the rest of us.
1:03.8	The 24% or so of the U.S. population that is non-religious, there are people around the world also listening,
1:08.6	and for those of us who believe in the importance of secular government.
1:14.5	And who agree with John Lennon, no hell below us, above us, only sky.
1:21.1	I'm Dan Barker. I'm co-host of Free Thought Radio. This is Free Thought Radio for June 24th,
1:39.1	2021. Grant Blashka of Audio for the Arts is engineering this show in our very own Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall, which is the national offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:46.1	And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. And as I kind of said, we have two purposes. We are a national free thought association of atheists and agnostics.
1:53.2	We're personally free from religion. And we work very diligently to uphold the First Amendment,
1:58.7	the Establishment Clause, and keep religion out of government.
2:02.3	We'd be glad to send you the June-July issue of our newspaper, Free Thought, today,
2:06.9	in a brochure about our 40-plus years of activism as a 501c3 nonprofit,
2:12.2	just go to our website at www.org and click on the link ask for info.
2:18.9	In the second half of today's show, we're going to talk with Barbara Alvarez.
2:24.2	She's FFRF's Ann Nicol Gaylor, Reproductive Rights intern.
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