Unto Us a Bill is Born

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🗓️ 15 December 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We celebrate the Bill of Rights (December 15) and the Winter Solstice (December 21) this week. Dan reads FFRF's full-page "Bill of Rights" ad that ran in today's New York Times and Annie Laurie reads "Away with the manger—in with the Solstice!" FFRF secular holiday signs are going up all over the country. After hearing solstice songs by Kristin Lems and Dan Barker, we listen to part of the speech by Susan Jacoby —"Why I am sick and tired of 'God Bless America'"—which she gave at FFRF's October convention in Pittsburgh.

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0:00.0	This is Free Thought Radio with co-host Stan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor,
0:09.2	Irreverent Views, News, Music, and Interviews.
0:13.6	Imagine there's no heaven.
0:19.9	It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Happy Bill of Rights Day and a very merry winter solstice to you.
0:54.9	Welcome to Free Thought Radio.
0:56.5	I'm Annie Laurie Galore.
0:58.0	And I'm Dan Barker.
1:00.0	Today, December the 15th, 2016, is the 225th anniversary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791.
1:11.6	Unto us, a bill was born.
1:15.6	And what an important bill that is now seriously threatened.
1:20.6	Free Thought Radio is produced in the Stephen Yule, friendly atheist studio in Freethought Hall,
1:26.6	the National Off offices of the Freedom
1:28.9	from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:32.0	Our engineer today is Buzz Kemper.
1:35.0	You might be catching this via podcast, and Free Thought Radio is proudly broadcasting in Grand
1:43.0	Rapids, in the west side of Madison, Wisconsin, in
1:46.5	Janesville, Wisconsin, in Columbia, Missouri, in Ithaca, New York, and in the picture
1:53.4	postcard perfect Vermont and New Hampshire, and way up in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
2:01.5	Free Thought Radio is the weekly production of the Freedom from Religion Foundation,
2:05.6	emphasis on from, as our Constitution requires the government to be free from religion,
2:10.8	and our members are also mostly, personally, free from religion.
2:15.0	Atheists and agnostics.
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