Secular Government

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Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Guest: Minnesota state Rep. Mike Freiberg. After hearing the late Loretta Lynn sing the feminist song "The Pill," we hear freethinkers Joni Mitchell and James Taylor perform "Circle of Time." Then we speak with Minnesota state Representative Mike Freiberg about the new Secular Government Caucus he co-founded in the state legislature with the purpose of "resisting Christian nationalism and defending state/church separation."

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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.
0:19.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:21.6	It's easy if you try.
0:27.6	No hell below us, above us only sky
0:41.3	imagine all the people Welcome to Free Thought Radio.
0:58.3	I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and it's a beautiful fall day here in Wisconsin.
1:03.2	We're moving from Golds to Scarlets, and I hope wherever you are, you have a little beauty in your life, too.
1:09.8	And I'm Dan Barker.
1:11.2	Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:16.5	This is the October 13th, 2020 episode of Free Thought Radio.
1:21.3	And Buzz Kemper is back engineering the show.
1:26.1	Yeah, we are really honored. Dan, Annie Laurie, it's so great to be back. I'll tell you, what do all these buttons in front of me do? Just don't push that big, fat, red one. Oh, okay. So, Buzz, and you regular listeners know Buzz, what, for like 10 years. Of course, our announcer that you hear his voice of But it was. And so, so what are you doing? You're just fixing things or just
1:48.3	reacquaining yourself? Sabine. I'm subbing in. Your regular engineer, Grant Blashka has
1:55.6	contracted the dreaded COVID. He's fine, but obviously he doesn't want to pass it along. So I am filling in,
2:04.4	and it has been a long time, but I have to say, it's really good to be back, and it's kind of coming
2:11.6	back to me. Well, we are very grateful, Buzz. It's nice to be here with you both. Buzz is owner of the recording studio Audio for the Arts, and many of the engineers there
2:22.8	have produced and engineered our show, Freethought Radio, right here in the Stephen
2:28.5	Ull-friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall.
2:31.6	Free Thought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. And Freethought Hall. Free Thought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
2:37.9	And Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, big emphasis on from.
2:45.3	FFFRF has those two purposes of keeping religion out of government and also being the nation's North
2:52.6	America's largest membership organization for people who are personally free from religion.
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