State/Church Litigation and the people behind it

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Freethought Radio looks at end-of-the-year threats to women by Islamists, talks with Taku Ronsman, a plaintiff in the Freedom From Religion Foundation's newest lawsuit against a city-displayed creche in Green Bay, Wis., and consults Anne Wiseman, chief legal director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, over CREW's recent federal court victory forcing the White House to release visitor logs on leaders of the religious right. Tune in for that, and much more!

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio on Air America with your hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:19.9	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:26.2	It's easy if you try.
0:31.9	No hell below us.
0:42.0	Above us only sky imagine all the people
0:48.1	living for today.
0:57.7	Hello, all you godless infidels, or should I say God-free infidels.
1:03.0	Hello, happy heathens, hellbound, atheists, and agnostics, and supporters of the First Amendment.
1:08.5	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:10.2	Welcome to Free Thought Radio's first show of 2008.
1:13.6	Free Thought Radio is broadcasting and streaming live from Air America.
1:18.1	And I'm your co-host, Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. Free Thought Radio is brought to you by the National Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:26.0	the country's largest association of atheists and agnostics
1:29.8	and other types of non-theists working to keep state and church separate. I told a joke last year
1:36.7	on our show before we went national. Should I tell it again for our national audience? I think we could
1:41.1	hear a joke twice. A rabbi and a priest went to a boxing match, and they were sitting together, and one of the
1:48.5	boxers got up and made the sign of the cross before he started the match.
1:52.7	And the rabbi looked over at the priest and said, what does that mean?
1:56.7	And the priest said, not a damn thing if he can't fight.
2:01.8	We've got a full show for you this week.
2:03.7	We'll be talking with one of the plaintiffs in the newest lawsuit of the Freedom for Religion Foundation.
2:09.0	We're suing the city of Green Bay over its unlawful placement of a nativity scene and only a nativity scene over the entrance of City Hall in late December.
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