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Annie Laurie Gaylor

Submitted by august on Sat, 2006-01-21 03:18.
Annie Laurie GaylorMadison, WI
  • Co-founder and Co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation
  • Editor of Freethought Today (ADDITION: 1985-2009; now executive editor not acting editor)
  • Author of “Woe to the Women: the Bible tells Me So”, “Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children”,  & “Women Without Superstition: No Gods – No Masters”

Ms. Gaylor co-founded the Freedom From Religion Foundation with her mother Anne Nicol Gaylor 1976 while she was a college student. FFRF, with over 16,000 members is the nation's largest association of freethinkers (atheists and agnostics) working to keep state and church separate. She has appeared on numerous talk shows, including The O'Reilly Factor, National News Segments and CNN, as well as Sally Jessy Raphael and Donahue.  Ms. Gaylor is a vocal feminist and was on her first feminist picket line at age 14.

Annie Laurie can talk about FFRF activism and current litigation (such as FFRF's historic challenge of the National Day of Prayer, the need for freedom from religion, current threats to the separation of church and state, and the harm of religion to women from the perspective of a 3rd generation freethinker.Upon request, she can give a power point presentation on "Women Without Superstition", showcasing the historic contributions of female freethinkers, based on the anthology she edited.
 
Annie Laurie also co-hosts the weekly podcast Freethought Radio with husband Dan Barker. 
If you're interested in having this speaker come to your school and give a presentation, click here to fill out our online Speaker Request form.
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Male Creationism
Submitted by Rick on Wed, 2006-02-15 20:53.

I am not a historian nor a theologian, but it seems to me that women would be originally thought of as the "creators" of life. But, ever since males figured out they had "something" to do with it, men "created" relgion in their image. Simply to give them the power to control human creation, because they cannot "bring forth life". So men came up with rituals and laws to give them control over women, marriage license/certificate, some would say "certificate of ownership". By viture of control over birthing and stating that the child is the fathers, this limited the female role to being simply a vessel for the all important male. This essentially removed the female from the "natural" role as "Creator of Life". As I stated this is a laypersons perspective.

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