Speaker: “Why we need freedom from religion”
Posted on March 3rd, 2009 by SarahAnnie Laurie Gaylor is giving a talk this Saturday, March 7 at 4pm in Woodburn 100. The topic is “Why we need freedom from religion.”
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Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of Freedom From Religion Foundation, will speak this Saturday at 4pm in Woodburn 100.
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.
This is really way overdo. More people need to speak up. We are drowning a religous goverment.
Saying you need freedom from religion is just like saying you need freedom from breathing.
The effect of deprivation would be the same.
I just saw your argument to remove a cross in a small town on FOX news this Sunday. Why can’t you be a big girl and take on the Muslim religion and it’s treatment of it’s subjects within the Muslim country’s? Surely they have a much bigger problem than we do and this would be a challenge you can embrace instead of wasting our country’s time. You take your freedom for granted and would be stoned in a Muslim country. You are a coward with no compass and do not appreciate what you have in the USA. Why don’t you simply move to another country and save us a lot of grief! Take on a good cause like the crusade to help Muslim women and girls have rights within the Middle East..that would be admirable, not your disbelief in a higher power than your vanity.
Sincerely,
Louis