The Religious War Against Women

Freethought Radio

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 578 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2007

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Freethought Radio's featured guest is Feminist Majority president and 3-decade feminist activist Eleanor Smeal, previously named a "Freethought Heroine" by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Ellie discusses religion's role in fighting the ERA, abortion rights and global human rights for women. The show features a brief "Theocracy Alert," and will honor Thomas Paine, whose birthdate is January 29. Song: "The World is My Country." The weekly show, which airs locally in Madison, Wis. (see link above to listen live via your computer), is co-hosted by Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Foundation co-presidents. (MP3, 51 min, 23.1 MB)

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0:00.0	It's time to wake up. Stay tuned for Free Thought Radio, the only weekly Free Thought Radio broadcast anywhere, a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation featuring co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor.
0:16.0	Irreverent Views, news, music, and interviews.
0:23.7	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:30.2	It's easy if you try.
0:36.7	No hell below us Above us
0:41.3	Above us only sky
0:43.3	Imagine all the people
0:49.3	living for today.
1:00.0	And a warm greeting to everyone else.
1:03.5	I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor for Free Thought Radio.
1:06.3	And I'm your friendly neighborhood atheist, Dan Barker, co-host of the show.
1:11.3	We're broadcasting from Madison's Progressive Talk, the Mike 92.1, in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:18.0	We're streaming live, and we also podcast this show.
1:22.3	Free Thought Radio is a production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
1:26.0	which is a national association of freethinkers,
1:28.9	and that means atheists, agnostics, and other skeptics, working to keep state and church separate.
1:35.2	Today's guest will be Ali Smil, head of the feminist majority, and who was president of now
1:40.2	in those halcyon days when we were working to pass the Equal Rights Amendment,
1:48.0	and she's a national leader in the feminist movement and has been for three decades.
1:50.6	We'll be talking with Ellie Smil about abortion.
1:57.9	This week marked the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the religious war against women on other fronts.
2:00.7	And we'll have a little news, some music, and a little history.
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