First hour: Atheist-phobia
Second hour: Previewing the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival
Perhaps the most controversial DNC email released in the recent leak was the one that questioned whether Bernie Sanders is actually an atheist, and whether that could be used against him with voters. Across the country, atheists groaned at yet another slur against the non-religious. Polls show atheists are viewed with great suspicion by religious Americans. We'll talk about atheist-phobia, and whether atheists feel like they'll have a chance to ever hold higher office in this country. Our guests:
- Dan Courtney, atheist who delivered a secular invocation at a Greece town meeting
- Leslie Hannon, Humanists of Rochester
- Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation
- Douglas Cullum, vice president and dean of Northeastern Seminary
Then in our second hour, the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival is coming. We'll hear from a whirlwind of performers, who will preview the wide range of shows. Get ready. The guest list:
- Erica Fee, producer of the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival
- Missy Pfohl Smith, Anomaly
- David Henderson, Grimm’s Mad Tales
- Lu Highsmith, Roc Bottom Slam
- BJ Scanlon, Canary in a Coal Mine
- Phil Campbell, The Campbell Brothers
- Alexa Scott-Flaherty, Writers and Books’ 24 Hour Plays
- Thomas Warfield, Creating Dance/Building Relationships
- Bob Holzwarth, Stand-Up Through the Ages
- Rebecca Fuss, Rochester Public Library’s Spooky Stories in the Stacks
