"Witches" exonerated
Freethought Radio
Freedom From Religion Foundation
4.6 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
FFRF's IT Director Scott Knickelbine gives us the inside scoop on the case by Catholic Charities in Wisconsin that is before the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to deny workers unemployment insurance based on religious privilege. Then, we talk with Maryland Delegate Heather Bagnall about the bill she introduced to exonerate people accused of witchcraft in 17th-century Maryland, including Moll Dyer, who froze to death after being driven from her home.
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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 |
| 0:41.3 | Above us only sky |
| 0:47.3 | Imagine all the people |
| 0:56.7 | living for today. The people united will never be defeated. |
| 1:01.6 | The people united will never be defeated. |
| 1:05.9 | Hello, I'm one of those peoples. |
| 1:08.6 | I'm Annie Laurie Galer. |
| 1:10.1 | And I'm Dan Barker. |
| 1:11.6 | And what we're hearing are some of the sounds from the hands-off protest as thousands of demonstrators, |
| 1:18.0 | and that included Dan and me, marched on April 5th around the country. |
| 1:22.6 | We happened to be marching to Madison, Wisconsin, from the Wisconsin Capitol to Bascom Hill on the UW Madison |
| 1:29.2 | campus, part of the nationwide protest against Trump policies and Elon Musk's involvement in our federal |
| 1:37.3 | government, many policies that we at the Freedom for Religion Foundation strongly oppose. |
| 1:41.9 | And Annie, Lori, you were carrying a sign that said, I'm terrified, as in tariffs. |
| 1:47.3 | And of course, we are also terrified at what might happen if Christian nationalists take over our country. |
| 1:54.3 | Well, haven't they already? |
| 1:56.1 | Annie Laurie and I are co-presidents of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, and this is the April 10th, |
| 2:02.1 | 2025 episode of Freethought Radio. |
| 2:05.2 | Leo Costello is our producer, and Tori Neals with Audio for the Arts, is our engineer, |
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