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Annie Laurie Gaylor


 
 

Annie Laurie Gaylor (born in Tomah, WisconsinTomah, Wisconsin

Tomah is a city in Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States....
 on 2 November 1955) is co-founder of the Freedom From Religion FoundationFreedom From Religion Foundation

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is an American Freethought organization based in Madison, Wisconsin....
 and, with her husband Dan BarkerDan Barker

Dan Barker is an avowed atheist who served as an evangelical preacher for 19 years, but left Christianity in 1984....
, is the current co-president. She is also editor of the organization's newspaper, Freethought Today, which is published ten times per year. She is the author of several books, including Woe to the Women: The Bible Tells Me So, Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children, and Women Without Superstition: "No Gods — No Masters." She is a 1980 graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism.

Gaylor and her mother, Anne Nicol Gaylor, and the late John Sontarck, founded the Freedom From Religion Foundation in a meeting around the Gaylors' dining room table in 1978. She met Barker at an Oprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey

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 show in 1984. They began dating six months later and married in 1987. Gaylor said that they were "kindred non-spirits".

Gaylor co-hosts a one hour weekly radio show with Barker. Freethought RadioFreethought Radio

Freethought Radio is a weekly radio show produced by the Freedom From Religion Foundation....
 was launched on 2007-10-06 on Air AmericaAir America Radio

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.

Books by Gaylor

  • Gaylor, Annie Laurie (1981). Woe to the women, the Bible tells me so: The Bible, female sexuality & the law. Freedom From Religion Foundation. ISBN 1877733024.
  • Gaylor, Annie Laurie (1986). It can't happen here?. Complimentary Copy Press. ASIN B0007259PM.
  • Gaylor, Annie Laurie (1987). Two reviews: Encyclopedia of unbelief. Complimentary Copy Press. ASIN B000729OJY.
  • Gaylor, Annie Laurie (1988). Betrayal of trust: Clergy abuse of children. Freedom From Religion Foundation. ASIN B0006ER83W.
  • Gaylor, Annie Laurie (Editor) (1997). Women Without Supersitition: "No Gods--No Masters". Freedom From Religion Foundation. ASIN B000V8LIOS.

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