Unalienable Rights
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Religion is a major cause of the spread of COVID. The NO BAN Act passed the U.S. House this week, undoing President Trump's restrictions on travel and immigration from several Muslim countries. FFRF Staff Attorney Patrick Elliott tells us about a church-owned property that will now have to pay taxes. We protest an evangelical-owned coffeeshop for violating mask regulations and condemn the South Carolina governor for diverting tax money to religious schools. Then we talk with U.S. Representative Jared Huffman — the only open nonbeliever in Congress — about the Congressional Freethought Caucus' scathing rebuke of the report by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's Commission on Unalienable Rights.
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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. |
| 0:43.3 | Imagine all the people living for today. |
| 1:06.9 | Welcome to Freethought Radio. I'm Annie Laurie Gaylor. This is radio for the rest of us, those of us who are not religious and believe in secular government. |
| 1:13.9 | And I'm Dan Barker, and I am definitely not religious and do believe in secular government. |
| 1:18.9 | This is the July 23rd, 2020 edition of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:25.4 | Buzz Kemper is engineering the show again from his studio, Audio for the Arts, |
| 1:29.3 | while Annie Laurie and I are hosting from our stay-at-home audio for the Aparts studio in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:34.0 | Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which is an |
| 1:39.1 | educational 501C3 nonprofit group devoted to those of us who are not devoted about religion, educating |
| 1:47.0 | the public about the views of non-theists, and devoted to the constitutional principle of separation |
| 1:53.0 | between religion and government. We have over 32,000 members. We would love to have you join us |
| 1:59.0 | at FFRF.org in our crucial work to keep religion out of government. |
| 2:04.6 | In the second half of today's show, our guest will be U.S. Representative Jared Huffman. |
| 2:11.6 | He's a co-founder of the Congressional Free Thought Caucus, which released a statement last week, denouncing a report |
| 2:19.9 | by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's Commission on Unalienable Rights. |
| 2:25.9 | And of course, Representative Huffman is the only non-religious, publicly identified member of Congress. |
| 2:33.4 | The Freethought Caucus's statement rebukes the Pompeo report for |
| 2:37.6 | downgrading civil rights and embracing Christian nationalist |
| 2:41.4 | foreign policy and Representative Huffman will be joining us later |
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