Supreme Court in the Balance

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Texas lieutenant governor and a Texas mayor are improperly mixing religion and government. We ask the Pennsylvania governor not to hand state money to churches. After hearing the freethinker Nina Simone's 1964 civil-rights protest song "Mississippi Goddam," we talk with eminent Chicago Law School professor Geoffrey R. Stone about the Supreme Court's upcoming decisions about abortion and state/church separation.

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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.
0:19.0	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:25.7	It's easy if you try.
0:31.5	No hell below us.
0:39.3	Above us only sky
0:41.3	Imagine all the people
0:46.3	living for today Welcome to feed that Living for the day
0:55.0	I'm Annie Lorry Galore.
1:00.0	And I'm Dan Barker and this is the June 11th, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio.
1:07.0	Buzz Kemper has been producing this show for the last couple of months.
1:11.6	I think this is the 11th show we've done here at home, but he's not here.
1:15.6	He's at his studio in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, Audio for the Arts,
1:20.6	while Andy Laurie and I are hosting from our improvised home studio,
1:24.6	about three miles away in Madison, Wisconsin. In Madison, Wisconsin is where
1:30.4	the headquarters of the Freedom from Religion Foundation are located. Hello, Buzz. How you doing?
1:36.5	Hello, Dan. Hello, Annie Laurie. Great. Thanks for keeping us on track here. My pleasure.
1:43.8	And so, Free Thought Radio is the once-a-week production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:50.0	It's a podcast and a broadcast, and it's one of the many things that the Freedom from Religion Foundation does.
1:56.0	We are a 501C3 educational association of free thinkers, atheistsists agnostics, and other skeptics, working
2:03.6	to keep religion out of government. We have about 30 staff members who are working remotely,
2:09.6	I think about 12 of them, our attorneys, and you can ask for more information at ffref.org.
2:16.6	We have a very interesting newspaper, Free Thought
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