Religion vs. Women's Health
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Football baptisms, the North Carolina lieutenant governor's intolerance and billboards for Rev. Joel Osteen are among the state/church news this week. FFRF Legal Director Rebecca Markert tells us about the Supreme Court taking a case over a Christian flag in Boston. Then Reproductive Rights Intern Barbara Alvarez gives us the good news and the bad news about abortion rights in America.
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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. 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. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and hello to all you listeners who were born right the first time. |
| 1:01.5 | Well, I had to be born again and then unborn again. |
| 1:05.1 | I'm Dan Barker, a former preacher, now an atheist. |
| 1:16.0 | This is the October 7th, 2021 edition of Free Thought Radio. And once again, the great Grant Blaschka is our engineer, |
| 1:22.1 | producing this show in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall. Grant is with audio for the arts. Free Thought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:29.5 | And it is the weekly production Free Thought Radio of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:36.1 | Regular listeners know we have two purposes to serve as a national organization for like-minded, |
| 1:42.9 | non-believers, free thinkers, atheists, and agnostics, |
| 1:46.0 | and to work to uphold the critical separation between religion and government that we need |
| 1:52.5 | in the United States, and we need it worldwide. We concentrate on the United States and our |
| 1:57.4 | godless constitution, and we would love to have you join us at ffrof.org, or you can |
| 2:02.3 | contact us and ask for a sample of our newspaper and a brochure about our 40-plus years of |
| 2:08.1 | achievements at our website, ffrf.org. Just click the ask for info link. Because religion is often a |
| 2:15.6 | serious threat to human rights. In the second half of today's show, |
| 2:19.8 | we're going to speak with Barbara Alvarez, the reproductive rights intern for the Freedom from Religion |
| 2:25.5 | Foundation, about the current threats to abortion rights. And before that, in a few minutes, |
| 2:31.1 | we're going to interview FFRS legal director, Rebecca Margaret. We're going to talk about the fact that the Supreme Court has just taken a case |
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