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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.
Elissa Wall, author of Stolen Innocence,” talks 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 also features 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!”
Michael Shermer, one of America’s leading skeptics, is interviewed, along with Denver FFRF activist Mike Smith, about the Imagine No Religion” billboard he helped get posted for two months this summer in Denver.”
Author: The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,” Jeff Sharlet, contributor to Harper’s and Rolling Stones, is interviewed about his new book exposing a religious-right cult with tentacles reaching into Congress. Freethinkers Almanac will celebrate several musical composers and the hosts discuss the biblical roots of the polygamy scandal involving the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints.”
Author of the bestselling Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon,” Prof. Daniel C. Dennett of Tufts University, is interviewed. State/church activist Prof. Eric Barnes is also interviewed about why he complained about ownership of a lighted cross by the Village of Holmen, Wis., and what has since transpired. Freethought Radio updates the continuing saga of pastors embarrassing the presidential candidates they have endorsed, in this case John McCain.”
