Requiem for the Supreme Court
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
GUEST: Linda Greenhouse. This week we focus on recent bad Supreme Court decisions attacking women's rights and the separation of church and state. FFRF attorney Patrick Elliott explains the confusing Bremerton case allowing a high-school coach to pray with students. Then we talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist and Supreme Court observer Linda Greenhouse about the demise of Roe (overturning the right to abortion) and her recent New York Times article "Requiem for the Supreme Court."
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.3 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.7 | Imagine there's no heavens. |
| 0:19.4 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people |
| 0:40.3 | We've been for today |
| 0:49.3 | Imagine there's no countries Hello, I'm Annie Lorry, Gailor, Thought Radio. We're about to celebrate Independence Day in the United States, but how ironic. For many women, at least on the federal level, they have lost their independence. More about that later in today's show. |
| 1:29.6 | And I'm Dan Barker, your co-host of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:33.0 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:37.9 | And this is the June 30th, 2022 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:43.3 | Our engineer today is Audrey Martinovich from Audio for the Arts. |
| 1:48.5 | Audrey, it's been a while since you've engineered for us. |
| 1:51.3 | It has. I'm really happy to be back on this last day of Pride Month. |
| 1:55.9 | Last Day of Pride Month. Excellent. |
| 1:57.6 | So Grant has been usually doing it for us, but he's the busy guy. Well, so are you. But we're happy to have you back with us. |
| 2:03.8 | Thanks. I'm happy to be here. And she's in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio right here where we are in Freethought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 2:19.0 | And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, |
| 2:23.5 | one of many, many, many things that FFF does. |
| 2:26.6 | We have two purposes to educate you the public about the views of non-theists, atheists, agnostic, skeptics, secular humanists, and to keep religion out of |
| 2:38.4 | government and social policy to defend the constitutional principle of separation between church |
| 2:44.3 | and state that is now being fought by the U.S. Supreme Court that's supposed to guard the Constitution and more about that later. And we are going to talk about the U.S. Supreme Court that's supposed to guard the Constitution and more about that later. |
| 2:53.0 | And we are going to talk about the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| 2:56.2 | For most of this show today, a number of terrible decisions have come down in the last week |
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