Separate Church & State
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Guests: Patrick Elliott; Ryan Jayne; Barbara Alvarez. After reporting on state/church news, we talk with a trio of FFRF staff members. FFRF Senior Counsel Patrick Elliott describes our friend-of-the-court brief to the Supreme Court about a praying high-school coach. Strategic Response Attorney Ryan Jayne tells us about the many bad state bills dealing with LGBTQ rights. And Contributing Writer Barbara Alvarez updates us on the good and (mostly) bad religiously motivated state bills dealing with abortion.
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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. |
| 0:13.5 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:20.0 | 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 living for today. |
| 0:49.3 | Welcome to the first program of April 2022. |
| 0:54.6 | This is Free Thought Radio, and I'm Annie Laurie Galore. |
| 0:57.5 | This is radio for the rest of us. |
| 0:59.8 | And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly atheist co-host. |
| 1:04.1 | As Annie Laurie said, this is the April 7th, 2022 Free Thought Radio show. |
| 1:09.5 | Grant Blaschka is our engineer in the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio in the Free Thought |
| 1:14.7 | Hall, the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:20.6 | And the Freedom from Religion Foundation produces Free Thought Radio and does so much else. |
| 1:25.7 | We have a staff of almost 30, including 11 attorneys, |
| 1:31.7 | a legal, or 10, nine attorneys and two legal assistance. We educate, we litigate, we broadcast, |
| 1:38.7 | we have TV shows, and we're working very diligently to keep religion out of government |
| 1:43.1 | as our Constitution requires in the |
| 1:45.5 | United States and to represent those of us who are personally free from religion. And we'd love to |
| 1:50.6 | have you join us if you're not a member or ask for information at ffrof.org. And we gladly send you |
| 1:56.9 | the April issue of our newspaper Free Thought Today and a brochure about our 40-plus years of activism. |
| 2:03.8 | This is the time to step up for secular government. |
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