Strategic Response
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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FFRF attorney Patrick Elliott describes our lawsuit over the state of Kentucky denying a personalized license plate that says "I'm God." Classical pianist Jarred Dunn performs Debussy and Chopin on FFRF's Steinway piano. Then we talk with FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel, who has become the Director of FFRF's Strategic Response team, about overtly theocratic public officials who don't know where to draw the line between state and church.
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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. |
| 0:20.1 | 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 Above us only sky. Happy spring, I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and here in Madison, Wisconsin, our April showers were snow showers. |
| 0:58.3 | So spring has been delayed, but it really is coming. I now have Glory of the Snow, Crocuses, and Dan. |
| 1:05.3 | I don't think you saw it. Our first daffodal bloomed yesterday in our garden. Mostly nothing's up yet, but there is hope. |
| 1:12.1 | When spring comes in Wisconsin, we have earned it. We really appreciate it after the long winter. |
| 1:18.7 | So welcome to Free Thought Radio. And I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist. |
| 1:24.1 | Today's show is the April 12th, 2018 edition of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:29.9 | Audrey Martinovich is our engineer today. |
| 1:32.6 | She's producing the show in the Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:38.0 | Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:44.1 | And the Freedom from Religion Foundation is over 33,000 members as of this month in North America, |
| 1:50.5 | mostly atheists and agnostics, people personally free from religion, |
| 1:54.3 | and we work to keep religion out of government as is dictated by our entirely godless and secular U.S. Constitution. |
| 2:01.9 | So we hope not someday, but today you will join us at ffrf.org. |
| 2:06.7 | In the second half of today's show, we're going to talk with FFRF attorney Andrew Seidel, |
| 2:12.5 | who is now FFRF's Director of Strategic Response. |
| 2:16.9 | We'll find out what that team has been up to recently. |
| 2:19.5 | And including some things this week of national import. |
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