The final episode of the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s television show has a featured interview with the acclaimed New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie.
Jamelle Bouie is a columnist for the Times and will be speaking at the 48th Annual FFRF Convention in Myrtle Beach, S.C., in mid-October, where he’ll receive the Clarence Darrow Award. Bouie also co-hosts the “Unclear and Present Danger” podcast. He’s worked for Slate magazine, The American Prospect magazine and The Daily Beast. In 2021, he received the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis journalism. And last year, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
“To my mind, it seems that the court’s conservative faction is on this mission to render the separation of church and state basically a nullity — basically to say that, in fact, there’s nothing in the Constitution that prevents state-sanctioned, state-funded religion or religious practices,” Bouie provides “Freethought Matters” co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor his assessment of the current U.S. Supreme Court’s approach toward the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. “And they’re doing this under the guise of religious liberty.”
You can watch the entire interview on FFRF’s YouTube channel now.
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After seven seasons, this Sunday’s show will be the final “Freethought Matters” in a format intended for broadcast TV. We usually go into a summer hiatus with the program, but this summer FFRF will be at work producing new programming.
In the meantime, FFRF continues to interview guests such as those we have featured on “Freethought Matters,” on our weekly “Freethought Radio/Podcast,” released on Thursdays, as well as the near-weekly “Ask an Atheist” video program on Wednesdays. All seven seasons of “Freethought Matters” are archived at FFRF’s YouTube channel under the “Freethought Matters” playlist for your viewing convenience. Stay tuned for more details on our new future programming! Thank you for watching “Freethought Matters” … because freethought matters!
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