Tennessee Monkey Trial
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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FFRF attorney Rebecca Markert updates us on the appeal by the City of Pensacola of our successful lawsuit over a Christian cross in a city park. FFRF attorney Andrew Seideldiscusses the impact of of the congressional appropriations bill directing the IRS not to enforce the Johnson Amendment that prohibits churches from engaging in political activity. Then we talk with actor John de Lancie (best known for his role as "Q" in the Star Trek series) who played Clarence Darrow in "The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial" play and who will join FFRF at the unveiling of the new Darrow statue in Dayton, Tennessee this week.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, |
| 0:09.1 | Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews. |
| 0:13.5 | Imagine there's no heaven. |
| 0:19.7 | It's easy if you try |
| 0:22.6 | No hell below us Above us only sky. |
| 0:47.7 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 0:52.3 | Welcome to Feed That Radio. |
| 0:58.9 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. |
| 1:03.5 | Now, I wish I'd coined that phrase, but that's actually Clarence Darrow. |
| 1:06.9 | And we're going to be talking later on today's show about Clarence Darrow. And I'm Dan Bark, your friendly neighborhood atheist. This is the July 13th, 2017 edition of |
| 1:15.7 | Freethought Radio. Buzz Kemper is our engineer. He's producing this show in the control room of the |
| 1:22.7 | Stephen Yule Friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, which is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:32.6 | And Freethought Radio is the production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which as regular listeners know, |
| 1:40.2 | is a North American Association of Freethinkers, about 29,000 strong, who work for separation of state and church. |
| 1:48.7 | And we hope not someday, but today you will join us at ffrf.org. |
| 1:53.7 | And we're sure that no matter what you call yourself, atheist, agnostic, secular humanist, or, you know, non-believer, or none of the above. |
| 2:04.6 | None of you believe in Mother Goose, like Clarence Darrow said. |
| 2:08.8 | In the second half of today's show, we're going to talk about Clarence Darrow. |
| 2:11.8 | We're going to have the actor, John Delancey, who played Clarence Darrow in a play. |
| 2:40.0 | But John Delancey is, of course, very well known for many roles in television and movies, especially for playing Q in the Star Trek series on television. And, of course, he's an atheist. And we are also momentarily going to be joined by FFRF attorney, senior attorney, managing attorney, Rebecca Markert. |
| 2:46.4 | We are going to talk about some developments with our cross case in Pensacola, Florida, that are making me cross. |
| 2:53.2 | And we are also going to be joined on the second segment by FFRF staff attorney Andrew Seidel, |
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