The First Amendment and Civil Rights

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We welcome the summer solstice with freethought offerings from author Ian McEwan and other leading atheists. IN THE NEWS: State/church victory! Supreme Court declines to hear the Elmbrook (Wisconsin) case disallowing public school graduations in churches. Then Liz Cavell, constitutional attorney, explains how FFRF’s legal staff handles state/church and Civil Rights complaints.

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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.
0:21.6	It's easy if you try.
0:27.6	No hell below us, above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today
0:59.0	Summer time Summer time
1:04.0	and the living is easy fish A jump in Feece a jump in and cut in My dad is high Oh, your daddy's rich, and your ma'i's good-looking.
1:39.3	So hush, little baby, don't you cry?
1:50.1	Happy summer solstice.
1:52.4	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor, and you are listening to Audra McDonald,
1:56.6	singing the classic summertime by the Gershwin brothers and regular listeners to Free Thought
2:02.5	Radio know that they were non-believers.
2:05.6	George and Ira Gershwin.
2:07.6	I'm Dan Barker, your friendly neighborhood atheist of the airwaves.
2:12.1	Today is the summer solstice.
2:14.6	June 21st, 2014 broadcast of Freethought Radio. And this week we were preceded.
2:21.3	Summer was preceded by a lot of wet weather and tornadoes. So we're looking forward to some real
2:26.4	summer here. Why is it, by the way, that an act of God is always something bad. Have you ever thought
2:31.9	of that? So the tornadoes did some damage, but there were no lives lost.
2:35.9	Thanks to nature.
2:38.5	And Free Thought Radio, this show originally broadcasts from the Mike 92.1.
2:43.2	That's WXM, right here in Madison, Wisconsin, where the national headquarters of the Freedom
2:48.4	from Religion Foundation are located.
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