569 - Pastor Fired Over Anti-Trump Sermon
Friendly Atheist Podcast
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🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
— Pastor fired from progressive church after preaching anti-Trump, pro-justice message. (1:32)
— The New Orleans Saints helped Catholic Church leaders spin a sex abuse crisis. (21:45)
— A proposed Texas law would let teachers "encourage" prayer during school activities. (33:10)
— Canadian town rescinds Christian Heritage Month proclamation after atheist makes similar request. (41:40)
— A proposed Alabama law would force every school to display the Ten Commandments. (48:03)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hemet. |
| 0:01.0 | And Jessica. |
| 0:01.7 | And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show and get ad-free |
| 0:09.3 | and bonus episodes. |
| 0:11.8 | And we wanted to start off before we got to the stories with a wonderful shout-out to |
| 0:17.6 | Isaac Samson, one of the people in our Facebook group for the podcast. And I've met |
| 0:23.2 | him. He came out when I was in Missoula. Oh, fantastic. Yeah. Isaac posted something on Facebook |
| 0:30.7 | that basically said that they recently testified at the Montana legislature to encourage people to vote no on basically a bathroom bill. |
| 0:41.5 | Isaac said this bill would require me to use women's facilities, which would put me in danger and make a lot of women uncomfortable. |
| 0:48.4 | But the thing that really got to both of us is that Isaac said, I'm posting here because without this podcast, I don't think I would |
| 0:55.6 | have had the courage to stand up and speak publicly, let alone being vulnerable as I was. |
| 1:00.9 | Thanks to Jessica and Hemet for encouraging us all to get involved at our local levels. |
| 1:05.1 | You have inspired at least one friendly atheist. |
| 1:07.5 | It made my whole year. |
| 1:09.4 | He's a good one. |
| 1:10.3 | He's a good ag, that Isaac. Yeah. Thank you so much for |
| 1:13.1 | sharing that with us and for doing what you do. And honestly, like, this stuff is incredible and important. |
| 1:20.2 | And if you feel like you are as brave as Isaac is and want to make a change in your small neck of the |
| 1:27.2 | woods, then I encourage you to do so. |
| 1:29.8 | Right. Let's start with this story today that involves a pastor who got fired for a very |
| 1:38.5 | interesting reason. And it got a lot of traction this week because NPR's Frank Langfit wrote a whole |
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