Secular Values
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Fifteen groups join an Americans United amicus brief supporting FFRF's federal court victory against a large public cross in Pensacola, Florida. Dan Barker asks for help in his appeal of a DC judge's dismissal of his lawsuit challenging the Congressional chaplain's refusal to allow a secular invocation before the House of Representatives. After learning the history behind the song "It Ain't Necessarily So", we talk with Larry Decker, Executive Director of the Secular Coalition For America, about how to improve the image of nonbelievers and lobby for secular law.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.2 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.2 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.8 | It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky. |
| 0:47.8 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:51.8 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. |
| 0:57.2 | And when most of you are listening, it's going to already be December. |
| 1:04.7 | And that's so-called phony war on Christmas. And we have President Trump saying everybody has to say Merry Christmas. |
| 1:10.7 | And what we're really seeing is a war on separation of church and state. So we'll be talking a little bit about that and other things today. |
| 1:17.0 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist, and there's only about 24 more shopping days until the winter solstice, which was what we celebrate. This is the November 30th, 2017 |
| 1:24.6 | edition of Free Thought Radio. Our engineer today is Audrey Martinovich. She's producing |
| 1:30.2 | the show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall. Freethought Hall is the |
| 1:37.0 | National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:43.8 | And the Freedom from Religion Foundation is in North American organization of over 30,000 |
| 1:48.9 | non-believers, atheists, agnostic, skeptics, whatever you call yourself, we're working for |
| 1:55.1 | separation of church and state. |
| 1:56.6 | Heretics, heathens. |
| 1:58.0 | And free thought and to protect the enlightenment. |
| 2:01.6 | And we hope not someday, but today you will join us at ffrof.org. |
| 2:06.6 | Today we're going to talk with Larry Decker. |
| 2:09.6 | Larry is the executive director of the Secular Coalition for America. |
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