The Future of the Freethought Caucus
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
FFRF Staff Attorney Sammi Lawrence reports about a high school softball team in Missouri that had religion pushed on it, and how FFRF was able to put a stop to this. Then, U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman reviews this year's National Prayer Breakfast in D.C. and provides some insight into future plans for the Congressional Freethought Caucus.
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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 |
| 0:41.3 | imagine all the people |
| 0:47.3 | living for today. |
| 1:02.4 | Hello, I'm Ryan Jane, Senior Policy Council at the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:08.3 | And I'm Leo Costello, producer of this show and other video projects at FFRF. |
| 1:13.0 | Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker are enjoying their vacation this week, but we're happy to be talking with you today, excuse me. This is the February 12th, 2026 episode of Free Thought |
| 1:18.2 | Radio, which means, I guess I should be saying, Happy Darwin Day, Ryan. We are recording from |
| 1:24.3 | the Stephen Ool-friendly Atheist Studio in Freethought Hall, our national |
| 1:28.2 | headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:29.9 | And Freethought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:35.5 | FFRF has two purposes, first to uphold the separation between church and state, and second, |
| 1:41.7 | to educate the public about matters related to non-theism. |
| 1:45.7 | Today we're going to discuss the latest news in the world of church state separation, |
| 1:49.6 | and we'll hear from one of our staff attorneys on a win we recently had a Missouri |
| 1:53.8 | protecting public school students from religious coercion. After that, U.S. Representative |
| 1:59.5 | Jared Huffman is going to come on the show to discuss |
| 2:01.9 | this year's National Prayer Breakfast, Trump's second term, as well as his plans for the future |
| 2:08.8 | of the Free Thought Caucus this year. I'm going to take a back seat while our governmental affairs |
| 2:13.4 | director, Mark Dan, joins Ryan for that conversation. And in honor of Valentine's Day, the music |
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