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A weekly show by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. "Slightly irreverent views, news, music and interviews."
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Topics: "Religulous," Religion in Politics, Women Without Superstiton
This week's show will preview Bill Maher's irreverent film on religion, "Religulous," and play audios of the infamous "witchcraft" prayer by Gov. Sarah Palin's Kenyan minister-friend and her response. For a change of pace, "Women Without Superstition" will be showcased in an interview featuring Annie Laurie Gaylor, as editor of the first anthology of women freethinkers.
Guests: Eleanor Clift and Carl Silverman
Journalist and Newsweek contributing editor Eleanor Clift will join Freethought Radio to talk about her new book, "Two Weeks of Life." The book is part memoir, tracing the last days of her husband, Tom Brazaitis, who died of cancer in 2005. Mr. Brazaitis, a well-known journalist, was a longtime FFRF member and, as Ms. Clift writes, "an unwavering atheist." She parallels Tom's last two weeks, with the Terri Schiavo debate occurring over the same time period. Also interviewed: state/church activist and Foundation member Carl Silverman, about getting an "Imagine No Religion" billboard posted in Harrisburg, Penn., last week.
Guest: Feminist author and atheist Robin Morgan
Feminist icon and atheist Robin Morgan will be interviewed about the 40th anniversary of the first Miss America pageant protest, which Robin organized in 1968, among other free-ranging topics. Ms. Morgan is Ms. Magazine's former editor, now consulting editor and author of the classic "Sisterhood is Powerful," as well as "Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right." Religion seeping into current politics will come under analysis in "Theocracy Alert."
Guests: Dan Barker and Matt (a Phoenix activist)
Dan Barker will change hats from interviewer to interviewee to talk about his new book, "Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists" (Sept. 2008, Ulysses Press). And Freethought Radio will be joined by a member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Phoenix who helped FFRF place five billboards saying "Imagine No Religion" to talk about both the censorship encountered--and the fun!
Guest: Michelle Trupiano, South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families
Topic: Abortion and the Religious Right
This week's Freethought Radio will interview the campaign manager of the organization working against Measure 11, a nationally-watched referendum to ban abortion which will be on South Dakota's Nov. 4 ballot. The show will also cover more religion in politics at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, and analyze the Assembly of God beliefs of McCain's vice-presidential pick.
This week's Freethought Radio will interview the campaign manager of the organization working against Measure 11, a nationally-watched referendum to ban abortion which will be on South Dakota's Nov. 4 ballot. The show will also cover more religion in politics at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, and analyze the Assembly of God beliefs of McCain's vice-presidential pick.
Guest: Bob Tiernan. Keep Religion OUT of Politics.
Freethought Radio interviews Denver attorney Robert R. Tiernan about
why religion should stay out of politics. Bob, who has taken many
lawsuits on behalf of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and is a
lifelong Democrat, got a lot of media attention for protesting the
interfaith worship service at the Democratic National Convention. FFRF
co-president Dan Barker's new book, Godless, is announced, with the Foreword by Richard Dawkins read by Brian Turany.
Guests: Ernie Chambers and Katha Pollitt
This week Freethought Radio will talk with Nebraska's most famous state
senator, Ernie Chambers, a nonreligious legislator and peoples'
advocate, about what's happening with his lawsuit suing "God" over
"acts of God."
Also interviewed will be The Nation's columnist, Katha Pollitt, about her recent religion in politics piece, "Flocking to Faith." The Saddleback church "debate" will be briefly parsed.
Also interviewed will be The Nation's columnist, Katha Pollitt, about her recent religion in politics piece, "Flocking to Faith." The Saddleback church "debate" will be briefly parsed.
Guests: Julia Cicci, ROTC cadet and unbeliever and Sarah Braasch, FFRF legal intern
This week Freethought Radio will talk with Julia Cicci, a University
ROTC cadet and unbeliever, who recently delivered a nonreligious
invocation at her ROTC commissioning ceremony. Also interviewed will be
FFRF's articulate legal intern, Sarah Braasch, who will talk about
growing up in the Jehovah Witnesses church and why she left it.
Julia Cicci, a University ROTC cadet and unbeliever & Sarah Braasch, FFRF legal intern
This week Freethought Radio will talk with Julia Cicci, a University
ROTC cadet and unbeliever, who recently delivered a nonreligious
invocation at her ROTC commissioning ceremony. Also interviewed will be
FFRF's articulate legal intern, Sarah Braasch, who will talk about
growing up in the Jehovah Witnesses church and why she left it.
Guest: Steve Trunk, Atheist, Vet, and FFRF Lifetime Member
This week Freethought Radio will talk with state/church litigant Steve
Trunk about a recent development in the Mt. Soledad cross challenge,
including the bogus attempt to disguise the 43-foot-tall cross in San
Diego as a war memorial. The cohosts discuss the grave implications of
a hostile ruling by an appeals court in the Freedom From Religion
Foundation's important challenge of pervasive religiosity in healthcare
by the Veterans Administration. The contributions of august
freethinkers born in early August will also be featured.
Guest: Steve Trunk, Atheist, Vet, and FFRF Lifetime Member
This week Freethought Radio will talk with state/church litigant Steve Trunk about a recent development in the Mt. Soledad cross challenge, including the bogus attempt to disguise the 43-foot-tall cross in San Diego as a war memorial. The cohosts discuss the grave implications of a hostile ruling by an appeals court in the Freedom From Religion Foundation's important challenge of pervasive religiosity in healthcare by the Veterans Administration. The contributions of august freethinkers born in early August will also be featured.
Guest: Jon O'Brien, President of Catholics for Choice
This week Freethought Radio talks with Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics For Choice (not all Catholics are alike), about his broad investigative indictment of William Donohue's obnoxious Catholic League, and with Ryan Valentine of the Texas Freedom Network about the troublesome plan to teach bible classes in Texas schools.
Mike Christensen, Seattle "Imagine No Religion" Billboard Booster
Since it's summertime and the living is easy, Freethought Radio will play an excerpt from Julia Sweeney's hilarious CD, "Letting Go of God." After a quick Theocracy Alert, Mike Christensen of Seattle will be interviewed. Mike, 28, is an FFRF Lifetime Member who will talk about why he is a freethinker and is sponsoring the current "Imagine No Religion" billboard in Seattle.
Guests: Webster Cook, student senator and non-eater of communion wafers and Sarah Braasch, FFRF Legal Intern
Tune in to hear the inside story about the young Orlando student whom Catholics have accused of committing a "hate crime" for not eating a communion wafer! And listen to Sarah Braasch talk about how some public-funded senior centers are imposing prayer on senior citizens and why that is illegal.
Guest: David Mills
Guest: David Mills
Author: Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism
Freethought Radio will discuss "atheist in a foxhole" Jeremy Hall's federal lawsuit against the military, charging that it is promoting Christianity and has discriminated against his rights as a nonbeliever, as covered by CNN this week with Anderson Cooper. Journalist and science writer David Mills, the author of the popular book, "Atheist Universe," will be interviewed about what's wrong with fundamentalism. The show will also highlight contributions by the many famous freethinkers born in July.
Hosts: Dan Barker & Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation
Produced by the Freedom From Religon Foundation
Author: Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism
Freethought Radio will discuss "atheist in a foxhole" Jeremy Hall's federal lawsuit against the military, charging that it is promoting Christianity and has discriminated against his rights as a nonbeliever, as covered by CNN this week with Anderson Cooper. Journalist and science writer David Mills, the author of the popular book, "Atheist Universe," will be interviewed about what's wrong with fundamentalism. The show will also highlight contributions by the many famous freethinkers born in July.
Hosts: Dan Barker & Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation
Produced by the Freedom From Religon Foundation
Guest: Nica Lilla
Freethought Radio will analyze Barack Obama's controversial decision to
rename and expand Bush's "faith-based initiative," using clips from his
announcement this week. It will also interview southern activist Pat
Cleveland, who is in the midst of the annual 4th of July bash in the
heart of the bible belt sponsored every year by the activist Alabama
Freethought Association. Author Nica Lalli will be interviewed about
her memoir about growing up as and embracing being a "nothing" when it
comes to religion.
Guest: Champion of the First Amendment: Jim McCollum
Jim McCollum, who at age 10 became the center of a huge legal battle against religious instruction in the public schools, will talk about the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision, McCollum v. Board of Education, keeping schools free of indoctrination. The show will also pay homage to several other anniversaries of significant Supreme court decisions affirming separation between church and state. Listen for cameos of famed litigants Roy Torcaso, Ed Schempp and Vashti McCollum.
Guests: Elissa Wall and Sarah Braasch
Elissa Wall, author of "Stolen Innocence," will talk about being married against her will at age 14 to an adult in her polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints community in Utah. Wall was the key witness in the criminal trial which convicted FLDS patriarch Warren Jeffs of being an accomplice to rape. The show will also feature Sarah Braasch, FFRF's legal intern, who will talk about her research into unlawful Christian prayers opening the Wisconsin State Assembly. Her interview will include sound bites of a legislator casting the "Evil One" out of the chambers!