We Won't Back Down
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Oklahoma's Superintendent of Public Education Ryan Walters is going after FFRF for complaining about that state's creation of a "public" religious charter school. FFRF Legal Fellow Sammi Lawrence tells us about the new amicus brief we filed in favor of Southwest Airlines enforcing their policy against religious harassment. Then we hear from three eloquent 18-year-old college students who read their winning essays at FFRF's annual convention: Luci Green, Skylar Blumenauer, and Michelle Liao.
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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 |
| 0:56.5 | Welcome to Free Thought Radio. |
| 0:58.5 | I'm Annie Laurie Galore, and we are coming to you from Madison, Wisconsin, on a beautiful and colorful fall day, and we have a colorful show for you. |
| 1:09.7 | And I'm Dan Barker, co-host of Freethought Radio. |
| 1:12.6 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation. |
| 1:17.5 | And this is the October 19th, 2023 episode of Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:24.1 | Our engineer today is Tori Neels with Audio for the Arts. |
| 1:29.5 | She's in the Stephen Ool-friendly atheist studio with us, which is in Freethought Hall, |
| 1:35.1 | the National Office of the Freedom from Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:40.2 | And the Freedom from Religion Foundation produces this weekly show, |
| 1:45.8 | Free Thought Radio. |
| 1:52.0 | FFRF has two purposes as an educational nonprofit 501C3. We work to keep religion out of government and out of social policy, |
| 1:58.4 | and we represent those of you who are personally free from religion, |
| 2:02.1 | and we have today more than 40,000 current members in North America. If you're a member, |
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| 2:16.2 | newspaper Free Thought Today, comes out almost once a month and a brochure |
| 2:20.7 | about our 45 plus years of achievements and there's no obligation and we do not trade, sell, |
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