(2012/06/30) Not all religious people are bigots, but these are (Gay rights)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 30 June 2012
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #619
Not all religious people are bigots, but these are
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Jane Lynch Coaches the GOP on Gay Rights - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 5-16-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Let's dance to Joy Division - The Wombats
Ch. 4: Act 2: Bigoted Pastor Wants to Round-Up Gays & Wait for Them to Die - Majority Report - Air Date: 5-23-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Dancin' in the moonlight - Top Loader
Ch. 6: Act 3: Tammy Baldwin for Senate - BotL Activism Update - Air Date: 6-30-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Eclipse - Apoptygma Berzerk
Ch. 8: Act 4: Doctor Disavows 2001 Study Giving Credence to Ex-Gay Organizations - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 4-18-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Try - Ben Sollee
Ch. 10: Act 5: People Are Born Gay, People Are Taught Hatred - Lee Camp - Air Date: 6-20-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Modern Way - Kaiser Chiefs
Ch. 12: Act 6: Man Shoots 4-Year-Old Boy He Thought Was Gay - Young Turks - Air Date: 6-12-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Cool to hate - The Offspring
Ch. 14: Act 7: Kentucky Legislature Bans Gay Pet Weddings - The Onion
Ch. 15: Song 7: One is the loneliest number - Three Dog Night
Ch. 16: Act 8: African American Gay Marriage Support Up Dramatically Since Obama Announcement - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 5-24-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Change you mind - Sister Hazel
Ch. 18: Act 9: Oh My God, Thou Doth Protest Too Much - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date: 5-11-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Father and Daughter - Paul Simon
Ch. 20: Act 10: Government Should Kill Gays - Pastor Curtis Knapp - Young Turks - Air Date 5-30-12
Ch. 19: Song 10: Windowsill - Arcade Fire
Ch. 20: Act 11: NAACP President Ben Jealous on NAACP Endorsement of Same Sex Marriage - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 5-21-12
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.8 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfALeft.com. |
| 0:09.1 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfALeft podcast with Cook Today from the Rachel Maddo |
| 0:12.6 | show, the majority report, a BestOfALeft activism update, comedian Lee Camp, the young |
| 0:17.3 | Turks, the onion radio news, and the Jimmy Dorshow. |
| 0:20.4 | And note for our more sensitive listeners, you cannot actually catch the gay by listening |
| 0:24.6 | to news stories about them. |
| 0:30.0 | The best new thing in the world today is a gross opportunity for Republican political |
| 0:34.7 | strategists, a lucrative source of revenue just waiting to be tapped. |
| 0:39.3 | Now I, Jane Lynch, am not normally one to give career advice to Republicans, but guys |
| 0:44.6 | and gals, there's money to be made on promoting gay rights within the Republican Party. |
| 0:50.5 | You see the de facto head of the Republican Party, one Willard Mitt Romney, has taken |
| 0:55.2 | a strong position on the side of the gay rights debate that if your politician is getting |
| 0:59.6 | to be the side, you don't much want to be on. |
| 1:02.8 | But the rest of his party may be about to evolve around him. |
| 1:07.6 | This weekend, a respected Republican pollster, one who helped President George W. Bush win |
| 1:12.4 | re-election, wrote a memo to Republican operatives, basically saying, guys, I've got a lot of |
| 1:18.1 | polling here, and the gay marriage thing is getting kind of popular. |
| 1:22.6 | And he suggested that Republicans might want to change the way they talk about stuff, |
| 1:26.6 | like gay marriage. |
| 1:27.9 | We start saying that support for gay marriage is consistent with, quote, conservative fundamentals. |
| 1:34.4 | As people who promote personal responsibility, family values, commitment and stability, |
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