Annie Laurie Gaylor (born in Madison, Wisconsin on 2 November 1955) is co-founder of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and, with her husband Dan Barker, is the current co-president.[1] She is also editor of the organization's newspaper, Freethought Today, which is published ten times per year. She is a self-described feminist and liberal. 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. [2] She met Barker at The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1984. They began dating six months later and married in 1987. They have a daughter, Sabrina Delata.[2]
Gaylor co-hosts a one hour weekly radio show with Barker. Freethought Radio was launched on October 6, 2007,[3] on Air America.
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- 1981: Woe to the women, the Bible tells me so: The Bible, female sexuality & the law. Freedom From Religion Foundation. ISBN 1-877733-02-4.
- 1986: It can't happen here?. Complimentary Copy Press. ASIN B0007259PM.
- 1987: Two reviews: Encyclopedia of unbelief. Complimentary Copy Press. ASIN B000729OJY.
- 1988: Betrayal of trust: Clergy's abuse of children. Freedom From Religion Foundation. ASIN B0006ER83W.
- (as Editor) 1997: Women Without Superstition: "No Gods--No Masters". Freedom From Religion Foundation. ASIN B000V8LIOS.
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