Standing up, speaking out
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We recap FFRF's impressive legal statistics for 2018 (1,060 formal complaint letters to erring government officials ending 315 state/church violations!). FFRF's Robert G. Ingersoll Legal Fellow Colin McNamara briefly joins us to recap the ruckus his complaint over religious displays is creating in Camden, Mo. The rest of the program is devoted to a never-before-broadcast interview of the fascinating, freethinking, feminist and feisty Cecile Richards, formerly head of Planned Parenthood, before an audience of 1,000 freethinkers. Tune in to hear what it was like growing up in Texas as the daughter of Ann Richards, Cecile's first state/church protest in sixth grade, how Jarred Kushner tried to "bribe" Planned Parenthood to stop providing abortions and why Cecile thinks patriarchy might be in its last gasp. P.S. As a bonus, we play a bit of "Sandan Shuffle," by saxophonist Virginia Mayhew, granddaughter of Ansel Adams and daughter of longtime FFRF member Anne Helms.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:17.0 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us |
| 0:33.6 | Above us only sky |
| 0:36.6 | Imagine all the people Above us only sky. Hello, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and welcome welcome to Free Thought Radio, whether you're an |
| 0:56.3 | intrepid, infidel, unabashed atheist, indifferent, agnostic, or open-minded enough to just |
| 1:03.0 | be playing curious about the views of non-believers. This is radio for the rest of us. |
| 1:09.3 | My co-host, Dan Barker, is off today. He and two of the attorneys |
| 1:14.7 | from the Freedom from Religion Foundation, Ryan Jane and Andrew Seidel, are in D.C., meeting with |
| 1:22.3 | members of the Freethought Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives, and that sounds pretty fun. That's a thrilling |
| 1:29.2 | words for me that 10 members of Congress have joined this caucus, which is new, and shares in common |
| 1:35.6 | with FFRF many of our purposes, such as to defend the constitutional principle of separation |
| 1:42.6 | between state and church and to safeguard the rights |
| 1:46.2 | of us non-believers. Dan will be back next week to tell us more about that. And this is the January |
| 1:52.1 | 10th, 2019 edition of Free Thought Radio. Buzz Kemper is our engineer, kindly letting us produce this |
| 1:58.5 | program in his studio, Audio for the Arts, |
| 2:01.8 | while the Stephen Yule-friendly atheist studio at FFRF's Freethought Hall is being expanded and remodeled, |
| 2:08.8 | and Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin, |
| 2:15.5 | and the Freedom from Religion Foundation is the weekly producer of Free Thought Radio. |
| 2:20.5 | FFRF has nearly 32,000 non-religious members in North America, and we educate the public about nontheism, |
| 2:28.0 | and we work to protect separation of church and state. Please join us today at fFRf.org. You'll swell our ranks, our influence, |
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