They Won't Back Down
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We are asking Oklahoma's Superintendent of Education to resign for pushing religion in the schools and for verbally attacking FFRF. After honoring the life of freethinking TV correspondent Betty Rollin, we hear from two brave students — Marcus Stovall and Bear Bright — who are suing West Texas A&M University for censoring their drag show fundraiser to prevent suicide among gay youth.
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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 living for today. Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm Annie Laurie Galar and happy end of November. |
| 1:01.6 | And hey, it's almost time for the war on Christmas. |
| 1:04.8 | Oh, I better get my helmet and my shield out so we can be ready for the big fight that's coming up. |
| 1:11.4 | We're just kidding. |
| 1:12.8 | That's the religious rights take. |
| 1:16.0 | That we're waging a war on Christmas. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:20.5 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:25.5 | And this is the November 30th, |
| 1:31.0 | 2023 episode of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:35.5 | Tori Neals with Audio for the Arts is our engineer. |
| 1:40.3 | She's in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio right here in Freethought Hall. |
| 1:45.6 | And Freethought Hall is the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:47.9 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and |
| 1:52.4 | as regular listeners know, FFRF has two purposes, not just to wage that war on Christmas, |
| 1:59.9 | but to educate the public about the views of us non-believers |
| 2:03.5 | and to educate the public and keep religion about this constitutional separation of church and state |
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