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This week’s radio show parses Mitt Romney’s faith in America” speech, reports on seasonal state/church entanglements, and features interviews with two recent victors in the legal battle to keep church and state separate. Guest Ray Ideus talks about his victory this week over religion at the Spokane police department. Kay Staley talks about her major victory at the Supreme Court level, removing a monument to the bible from government steps in Houston. Listen in, get acquainted with freethinkers and enjoy some good news!”
Just in time for the exciting debut this weekend of The Golden Compass film, the children’s movie spectacular of the season, is Freethought Radio’s interview with the fascinating Philip Pullman, the British children’s novelist and nonbeliever who wrote the book the headline-making movie is based on. The program also reviews some timely developments, good and bad, for freethought and the separation of church and state.
This week’s show features an interview with the irrepressible litigant Michael Newdow, whose latest challenges of under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, and of the motto “In God We Trust,” will be argued before the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The show also debuts teasers of Mike’s funny “solstice” rewrites of traditional Christmas carols, from his new “Solstice Classic” CD. Also appearing is the equally irrepressible Ernie Chambers, state senator from Nebraska, talking about his slightly tongue-in-cheek lawsuit against “God.” Photo by Brent Nicastro.”
This week’s show features a deferred interview with SPC Jeremy Hall, who was threatened with fragging” (a “friendly fire” murder) after suing the Pentagon for religious discrimination. Hall sued after he was threatened with military retaliation for organizing a freethought meeting at his base in Iraqi. “Theocracy Alert” looks at timely violations, and the birthdate of nontheist composer Scott Joplin is commemorated.”
This week’s show is a freethought potpouri! Nation columnist Katha Pollitt reads her recent column, Onward, Secular Soldiers!” Columnist Stephanie Salter talks about a humorous new website set up to record hypocrisy by drivers with “In God We Trust” license plates in Indiana. Dan and Annie Laurie discuss the upcoming “Golden Compass” movie, starring Nicole Kidman, based on the first book in atheist children’s author Philip Pullman’s trilogy. And as a bonus, they play “loving messages” left by Christians on the Freethought Radio answering machine. Photo by Brent Nicastro.”
Comedian and Saturday Night Live alum Julia Sweeney returns to Freethought Radio for a new interview about her beautiful loss of faith story,” and her monolog, “Letting Go of God,” soon to be released as a film!”
Dan and Annie Laurie play sound bites from GOP candidates genuflecting before the Religious Right. They also discuss the monopolization of words like morality” and “values” by the Christian right with nonbeliever Eric Zorn, columnist for the Chicago Tribune.”
Irreverent Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Steve Benson of the Arizona Republic, who is the grandson of Ezra Taft Benson, the late president of the Mormon church, talks about why he left that church in a highly-publicized break and is now an atheist. Also, attorney Robert R. Tiernan talks about FFRF’s newest federal lawsuit, challenging the promotion of churchgoing by a school district in Colorado. Photo by Brent Nicastro.
In honor of Nobel Week,” Freethought Radio talks with Paul D. Boyer, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 1997, about why he is an atheist, as well as discussing statistics revealing that the overwhelming number of elite scientists are nonbelievers. Prof. Boyer also talks about his support of death with dignity in the face of church opposition to physician-assisted suicide. Photo by Brent Nicastro. (MP3, 38 min, 34.7 MB)”
