582 - NJ City Aims to Seize Church

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Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

– Trump Justice Dept. sides with Catholic Church to fight law requiring priests to report abuse. (0:49)

– "How much God do you need?" School board member slams invocation plan. (18:00)

– Pickleball over people? NJ town moves to seize church and block homeless shelter. (44:05)

– Texas lawmakers want a month-long celebration of God's promises in the Bible. (1:10:00)

– A curriculum coup: Oklahoma Republicans allow right-wing rewrite of history. (1:13:13)

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0:00.0	This is Hemet and Jessica.
0:01.7	And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
0:04.1	Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show.
0:09.5	Get your ad free and bonus episodes, which I swear will work this week.
0:13.7	And we got a few thank yous from last month that I want to give a shout out to.
0:18.0	They include Hertzzy Hertz, which I assume is a pen name of sorts.
0:22.9	I want to thank Linnea H. Clay L. Micah C., Sarah R. and John C.
0:28.3	Thank you so much for your support.
0:30.1	We appreciate that.
0:31.2	John C. Riley's always been a big supporter of us.
0:32.9	Exactly right.
0:34.7	We have much to discuss.
0:37.1	Yeah.
0:37.8	Is any of it good?
0:39.1	Remember last week we had good news?
0:40.6	Some of it is good.
0:41.7	What a time to be alive.
0:42.9	I know.
0:43.7	It's weird.
0:44.5	It turns out if you ignore the news, there's actually a lot of good stuff happening.
0:48.9	So one of the most exciting things that has happened in terms of like a big law that we've been talking about
0:55.2	is in the state of Washington. They have now officially passed a law requiring clergy members
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