Secular elected officials
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After reporting state/church news in Ohio, North Carolina and Florida, we talk about the tragic religious persecution in Pakistan and Afghanistan. FFRF Senior Policy Counsel Ryan Jayne discusses the more than 1,000 state-level religiously based bills introduced in 2023 that we are monitoring and reports a "Health Care Sharing Ministry" victory in Missouri. Then we speak with Leonard Presberg, founder and president of the Association of Secular Elected Officials.
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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 heaven. |
| 0:19.5 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky imagine all the people living for today imagine that i'm annie laur |
| 0:52.4 | welcome to free thought radio and happy end of February. |
| 0:57.8 | And I'm Dan Barker. Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:05.3 | And this is the February 23rd, 2023 episode of Free Thought Radio, 223, 2020, 2023. |
| 1:14.0 | Grant Blaschka, with Audio for the Arts, is our engineer in the Stephen Ool-friendly |
| 1:19.0 | atheist studio in Freethought Hall, the national offices of the Freedom from Religion Foundation |
| 1:25.0 | in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:27.0 | And the Freedom from Religion Foundation is a National Association of Freethinkers. |
| 1:32.1 | Atheist and Agnostics, we have over 40,000 members, and we would love to thank you if you are a member, |
| 1:38.5 | and to have you join us if you're not, get information at ffrf.org and join us in our critical work to keep religion |
| 1:46.6 | out of government and social policy and to represent the views of the growing number of us, |
| 1:53.3 | especially in America, who are nuns, NONES, unaffiliated, atheist agnostics, or nothing in |
| 2:00.3 | particular. |
| 2:04.9 | We also represent the non-theistic voice at ffrof.org. |
| 2:06.5 | And it's not just in the population. |
| 2:09.0 | There's a growing number of nuns in government. |
| 2:14.9 | Did you know that more and more openly non-religious people are winning seats in the government? |
| 2:19.7 | Today, in the second half of our show, we're going to talk with Leonard Pressberg. |
| 2:27.7 | He's the president of this new association of secular elected officials, a nonprofit for elected officials at all levels of government. |
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