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This week Freethought Radio talks 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.” Photo credit: Brent Nicastro
Also interviewed, The Nation’s columnist, Katha Pollitt, about her recent religion in politics piece, “Flocking to Faith.” The Saddleback church “debate” will be briefly parsed.”
This week Freethought Radio talks with Julia Cicci, a University ROTC cadet and unbeliever, who recently delivered a nonreligious invocation at her ROTC commissioning ceremony. Also interviewed, FFRF's articulate legal intern, Sarah Braasch, who will talk about growing up in the Jehovah Witnesses church and why she left it.
This week Freethought Radio talks 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 are also featured. Photo credit: Brent Nicastro
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.
Since it’s summertime and the living is easy, Freethought Radio plays an excerpt from Julia Sweeney’s hilarious CD, Letting Go of God.” After a quick Theocracy Alert, Mike Christensen of Seattle is interviewed. Mike, 28, is an FFRF Lifetime Member who talks about why he is a freethinker and is sponsoring the current “Imagine No Religion” billboard in Seattle.”
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.”
Author: Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person’s Answer to Christian Fundamentalism
Freethought Radio discusses 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,” is interviewed about what’s wrong with fundamentalism. The show also highlights contributions by the many famous freethinkers born in July.”
Freethought Radio analyzes Barack Obama’s controversial decision to rename and expand Bush’s faith-based initiative,” using clips from his announcement this week. It also interviews 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 is interviewed about her memoir about growing up as and embracing being a “nothing” when it comes to religion.”
Jim McCollum, who at age 10 became the center of a huge legal battle against religious instruction in the public schools, talks about the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision, McCollum v. Board of Education, keeping schools free of indoctrination. The show also pays 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.
