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A “blasphemous student,” Sawyer Frey of Ohio, will talk about why he decided to dress up like Jesus for “Fictional Character” day at his public school, and what the school made him change! Also discussed: why “under god” in the Pledge of Allegiance continues to divide our nation, and the latest in FFRF’s litigation efforts to remove it.
We talk about freethought up north and freethought down south. We’ll talk with the leader of a Minnesota chapter and a Mexican atheist Gerardo Romero Quijada “Ramas”. We’ll talk about the first national atheist conference in Mexico where FFRF will be participating.
We review Wisconsin’s Lt. Gov’s historic welcome speech to the 33rd annual FFRF national convention in Madison, Wis. Rep. Pete Stark accepts the Emperor Has No Clothes Award as Congresses’only out non-believer. Melody Moore, soprano opera singer, shares why FFRF is special to her.
FRF staff attorney Rebecca Markert reports on the prayer in school violation FFRF has contested that is turning Daisy Soddy School District and the rest of Tennessee upside down. This year’s Thomas Jefferson Youth Activist Awardee Eric Workman talks about why, as class valedictorian, he sued his public school district over illegal commencement prayers, and how he won.
FFRF unveils the “Out of the Closet” bus sign and billboard campaign for atheists and agnostics. Atheist and comedian extraodinaire Julia Sweeney previews her speech at the FFRF convention next weekend.
Atheism pops up in pop culture as the co-host discuss the hit tv show ‘Glee.’ Veteran journalist and Isthmus editor Bill Lueders discusses his latest book Watchdog: 25 years of muckraking and rabble-rousing
The co-hosts remember John Lennon. Dan and Annie Laurie speak with Madison cartoonist and illustrator of People’s History of American Empire (co-authored by Howard Zinn). Mike talks about his exhibit at the FFRF national convention in Madison over Halloween weekend. The exhibit shows the perils of living in “One nation under god.”
In a sneak preview for FFRF’s upcoming national convention, convention speaker Linda Greenhouse, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times for 30 years, will talk about her new book on Roe v. Wade, and state/church issues before the high court. The hosts will also play amusing clips about religion and Christine O’Donnell, include coverage of a “war of the billboards” inaugurated by its Tulsa “Atheism is OK in Oklahoma” billboard, and talk about why atheists and agnostics fared so well on this week’s PEW survey finding biblical illiteracy among believers.
Freethought Radio will catch up with legal complaints and victories by FFRF’s lead staff attorney Rebecca, Markert, who will cohost this week’s show while Dan Barker is on the road for freethought. Guest Jon Lindgren, former mayor of Fargo, N.D., professor emeritus of economics and President of Red River Freethinkers, will talk about how he dropped prayers from city commission meetings, and about an 8-year legal battle in Fargo to remove a Ten Commandments monument from city property.
