An up and coming legislator serving in the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s home state is the guest on “Freethought Matters” TV show this Sunday.
There’s a growing roster of state legislators who are openly secular — atheist, agnostic or humanist. Among these is Wisconsin state Sen. Kelda Roys, who was in the Wisconsin Assembly from 2009 to 2012 and was elected to the Wisconsin Senate in 2020 to a four-year term. Roys is also an attorney and the former executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin and ran for governor in 2018.
“Given how much entanglement we are seeing with religion and specifically a very right-wing brand of Christianity in the government, I think that a lot of progressive Christians and a lot of Jewish people and other minority religions, as well as nonbelievers and humanists, are very concerned about what’s happening with the Supreme Court and the increasing entanglement of government and religion,” she tells “Freethought Matters” co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. “And they want people who are going to stand up for constitutional values and the separation of church and state.”
If you don’t live in the quarter-plus viewership of the nation where the show broadcasts on Sunday, you can already catch the interview on the “Freethought Matters” playlist on FFRF’s YouTube channel. New shows go up every Thursday. You can also receive notifications when we post new episodes of “Freethought Matters” by subscribing to FFRF’s YouTube channel.
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- Los Angeles, KCOP-MY (Ch. 13), Sundays at 8:30 a.m. Note: Due to pre-emption on Feb. 13 by football, “Freethought Matters” will move just this week from its Sunday time slot to Saturday, Feb. 12, at 8:30 a.m.
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- New York City, WPIX-IND (Ch. 11), Sundays at 9:00 a.m.
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- San Francisco, KICU-IND (Ch. 36), Sundays at 10 a.m.
- Seattle, KONG-IND (Ch. 16 or Ch. 106 on Comcast). Sundays at 8 a.m.
- Washington, D.C., WDCW-CW (Ch. 50 or Ch. 23 or Ch. 3), Sundays at 8 a.m.
“Freethought Matters” is now in its sixth season. To watch earlier shows, including an interview with freethinker and feminist icon Gloria Steinem, visit the “Freethought Matters” playlist on FFRF’s YouTube channel. Coming up soon is an interview with the world-renowned philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer.
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