(2012/03/29) They live among us and they're normal (Religious Tolerance)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 29 March 2012
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Edition #590
They live among us and they're normal
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Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: A Love Supreme - Religious Freedom vs Americans with Disabilities Act - Daily Show - Air Date: 1-26-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: On the Radio - Regina Spektor
Ch. 4: Act 2: David Shuster decries Islamophobia in conservative media - Countdown
Ch. 5: Song 2: This land is your land - Peter, Paul & Mary
Ch. 6: Act 3: Muslim Sues University For Harassment Claims - Young Turks - Air Date: 1-11-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Mercy - OneRepublic
Ch. 8: Act 4: Rev C Welton Gaddy Schools Rev Dennis Terry on Religious Freedom - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 3-22-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Hello bonjour - Michael Franti And Spearhead
Ch. 10: Act 5: The Elephant in the Room - Daily Show - Air Date: 1-5-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Proud to be an American - Side Street Ramblers
Ch. 12: Act 6: Muslim Attacks Atheist, Muslim Judge Dismisses the Case...Christian Anger - David Pakman - Air Date: 2-23-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: God? - The Dodos
Ch. 14: Act 7: NYPD's Vile Film - The Progressive Air Date: 1-24-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: The only living boy in New York - Paul Simon
Ch. 16: Act 8: White House Aids in NYPD Muslim Spying - Majority Report - Air Date: 2-29-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Highly Suspicious - My Morning Jacket
Ch. 18: Act 9: Christie on NYPD Muslim Spying In New Jersey - Young Turks - Air Date: 3-3-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Vinnie Pauleone & The Ba Da Bing Orchestra
Ch. 20: Act 10: Bloomberg Cheney-esque on Snooping - The Progressive Air Date: 2-22-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: Tenderness - General Public
Ch. 22: Act 11: NYPD Muslim Profiling - Matthew Filipowicz Show - Air Date: 2-28-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: Thoughts on feminist programs not needing to cater to the privileged - Krissy from Kansas
Ch. 24: Resistance to the idea of oppressed people needing to cater to the privileged when speaking about oppression - Elka from Indiana
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 25: Final comments and clarifications on communicating across privilege barriers
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors of the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.5 | the membership tab at Best of the Left.com, now welcome to the award-winning Best of the |
| 0:10.6 | Left Podcast with Cups Today from the Daily Show, Countdown, The Young Turks, The Rachel |
| 0:15.2 | Maddo Show, The David Pakman Show, The Progressive, The Majority Report, and The Matthew Philip |
| 0:19.4 | Opopit Show. |
| 0:20.4 | And a note for our more sensitive listeners this episode suggests that people other than |
| 0:24.0 | Midwestern, White, Christian, Conservative Republicans should also be thought of as real |
| 0:28.6 | Americans. |
| 0:30.0 | Is there something different about the way a church manages his employees that the |
| 0:34.2 | government can't touch? |
| 0:35.2 | The woman who was a teacher at a Lutheran school in Michigan, she developed a disease known |
| 0:40.4 | as narcolepsy, which caused her to fall into periods of deep sleep, so she left her |
| 0:44.6 | treatment. |
| 0:45.6 | When she came back, the church said, sorry, we don't have any openings. |
| 0:48.5 | Nah, I see most places can't fire someone because they got narcolepsy, you know the American |
| 0:52.6 | with Disabilities Act, but can a church? |
| 0:55.0 | It's on. |
| 0:56.2 | Religious freedom, the Americans with Disabilities Act, there's really only three ways this |
| 1:00.4 | thing can go. |
| 1:01.4 | It either ends five, four, or four, five, or maybe four and a half, four and a half. |
| 1:07.9 | We've got some breaking news for you out of the Supreme Court in a unanimous decision. |
| 1:11.5 | The justice is ruled that a teacher fired for a disability from religious school cannot |
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