Podcasts about legal duty

After we announce our “I’m an Atheist and I Vote” billboard campaign, welcoming candidates to Madison, Wisconsin during the week of the Wisconsin primary election, FFRF legal fellow Maddy Ziegler describes how she got a Las Vegas, Nevada, school graduation removed from a church. We celebrate the 120th birthday of composer Yip Harburg (“Over the Rainbow”). Then we hear excerpts of the “Lifetime Achievement” award acceptance speech given at FFRF’s 2015 convention by Rita Swan, founder and director of C.H.I.L.D (Children’s Healthcare Is a Legal Duty) talking about the danger to children of state laws exempting parents from providing healthcare to their children on religious grounds.

After reporting FFRF victories in Arkansas and Wisconsin and complaining about a loose-cannon Florida sheriff who preaches in uniform, Annie Laurie analyzes what is wrong with the pope’s recent encyclical on climate change and what is right about South Carolina’s move to remove the confederate flag. Then we talk with Rita Swan, founder and director of C.H.I.L.D—Children’s Healthcare is a Legal Duty—about her decades-long effort to fight the religious medical neglect of children after she lost her own child due to Christian Science practices.

This week on….. For the People… law in plain language  with Debra D. Rainey, Esq. The Cure: Healing in the name of Faith! “When Faith Healing becomes Neglect”   The FTP Fam and very special guest, Dr. Rita Swan, Co-founder of C.H.I.L.D (Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty) delve deeply into popular beliefs and facts surrounding  faith healing. An eager caller, a Reformed Christian Scientist in belief only, shared with us his views on the type of parents who willingly neglect their children for ideals that o not follow any recognized biblical child protective passages. Are Those who reject the very idea of medical treatment and turn to their religious practices and religious leaders for Faith healing, righteous zealots  or negligent incompetents? Is ther a line between faith and neglect? Check out this episode! Tune in every Tuesday night @ 8:00 PM (EST) on www.gtownradio.com to hear FTP live!  G-Town Radio Studio line:  (215) 609-4301  FTP Text Line: (215) 435-4099  Listen. CALL. talk LIVE. DiScUsS.  G-townRadio Ftplawradio.com  TUESDAY'S 8-9:30 PM (EST)  Host: Debra D. Rainey, The Compassionate Lawyer Co-hosts: Blaq aka the “Broke” Poet & BreeAyre Anderson aka “Kewl Breeze” Executive Producer: Renee Norris-Jones Managing producer: Chamara Cotton aka “Cheddar” Assistant Producer: Robbin K. Stanton aka “Aunt Robbin”  FTP Team: Senorita Nora Norris, Asia Proctor, aka “P-roc”, & Marcha Hilaire aka “Mary H”  This Episode was produced by Robbin K. Stanton Weekly Podcasts: iTunes & FTPLawradio.com Podomatic Like us on FaceBook   ~   Follow us TWITTER  Air date: August 5, 2014 ~ LISTEN with the TUNEIN APP on your SMARTPHONE ~   

An important interview with Rita Swan, director of Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty, will focus on insidious amendments to healthcare reform bills that would force medical insurers to cover prayer as medicine. Local California atheist and Lifetime FFRF'er Sue Robinson will talk about why she testified against government prayer in Turlock, Calif., where there has been heated debate over an FFRF state/church complaint Bonus: news coverage of FFRF's mini-blitz of freethought billboards in Detroit.

Rita Swan, founder of Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty, grants a powerful interview about losing a baby to Christian Science anti-medicine tenets, and her subsequent activism to repeal religious exemptions in laws governing healthcare for children. Dan Barker's Pagan Pulpit addresses the biblical defamation of atheists as "fools." Song: "Sunday Morning Blues." Freethinkers Almanac looks at eminent freethinkers born in late March. (MP3, 51 min, 23 MB)