Annie Laurie Gaylor is giving a talk this Saturday, March 7 at 4pm in Woodburn 100. The topic is “Why we need freedom from religion.”

Download a copy of the flyer for the event and post it around campus!

Annie Laurie Gaylor and her mother, Anne Nicol Gaylor, co-founded Freedom From Religion Foundation, Madison, WI, in 1976. Annie Laurie was a college student at the time. She is now  Co-President of FFRF with her husband, Dan Barker. She is editor of Freethought Today which is published ten times a year by FFRF.

Annie Laurie is the editor of Women Without Superstition, “No Gods, No Masters”–The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries. She is the author of Woe to Women–The Bible Tells Me So–The Bible, Female Sexuality, & the Law and Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children.

She makes numerous appearances on national and local radio and television advancing the cause of Separation of State and Church and other issues involving nonbelievers. She is a graduate of the Journalism School, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

She will be talking about why the lack of freedom from religion threatens progress in the United States, and why atheists, freethinkers, and other nontheists need to come out of the closet.  FFRF, a state/church watchdog based in Madison, Wis., is the nation’s largest association of atheists and agnostics.

The talk is hosted by the Secular Alliance of IU and CFI Indiana.

If you’re closer to Indianapolis and free on Sunday, Gaylor will also be speaking at CFI Indy at 6pm.  You can find more information at their website.

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