Jamelle Bouie: Defending Democracy and Secularism | FFRF Convention 2025

New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie accepts the Clarence Darrow Award and delivers a powerful address on America’s secular promise. Bouie traces the nation’s egalitarian ideal from the Declaration of Independence through Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, critiques modern Christian nationalist rhetoric and argues for a pluralist democracy with room for the religious and nonreligious alike.

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0:00 Introduction 

4:42 Speech 

26:25 Q&A

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Interview: 

https://youtu.be/slUNxBfmlaE?si=QBs8PlAlzMgKgWtF