The Agenda

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🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Guests: Sam Grover; Ian Millhiser. After we report on national state/church news, FFRF attorney Sam Grover joins us to talk about the oral arguments he gave last week before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in our lawsuit challenging a Texas judge who opens sessions with a prayer. Then we speak with journalist and author Ian Millhiser about his new book The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:09.2	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:13.2	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:19.8	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 living for today
0:50.3	Hello and welcome to Free Thought Radio, imagine all the people living for today. And imagine if all of us realize that the only afterlife that should concern us is leaving our descendants and the planet a secure and pleasant future. We would have a different world. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor.
1:08.8	And I'm Dan Barker, and we are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.
1:13.6	This is the April 14th, Free Thought Radio Show, April 14th, 2022.
1:19.6	Grant Blaschka, who is with Audio for the Arts, is engineering in the Stephen Yule-friendly studio in Free Thought Hall, which is the
1:28.6	National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:33.8	Which produces Free Thought Radio, and we do so much else. We're a 36,000 member group,
1:40.8	membership group of Freethinkers, Atheists, and Gnostics, and work diligently as a state
1:45.2	church watchdog. So if you're a member, thank you, and if not, we'd love to send you
1:49.8	information or have you join us at avFRF.org.
1:54.0	If our nation is becoming more diverse, how did the Supreme Court become so unrepresentative? Notwithstanding the welcome appointment of
2:04.4	Katanji Brown Jackson to soon replace Justice Breyer, what is this new conservative majority likely to do
2:11.7	with its power, especially in matters of religion? Our guest during the second half of today's show
2:16.6	will be the journalist and author
2:18.2	Ian Milheiser, whose new book is called The Agenda, How a Republican Supreme Court is
2:25.5	reshaping America. And before that, we'll talk with FFRF attorney Sam Grover about oral
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