584 - The Price to Make Jerry Falwell, Jr. Go Away
Friendly Atheist Podcast
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🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
– Good news! The Supreme Court deadlocked on allowed the first-ever taxpayer-funded religious charter school in Oklahoma. (0:20)
– Liberty University paid Jerry Falwell, Jr. $15 million to make him—and his lawsuits—disappear. (10:45)
– Trump admin drops $37.7M fine against Christian school that lied about tuition. (26:17)
– After a decade, a Florida city has finally given up defending an illegal prayer vigil. (36:50)
– Indicted megachurch pastor Robert Morris abused a kid. Now he's suing for retirement pay. (53:13)
– Texas Senate passes bill to force Christian date labels (B.C. and A.D.) in public schools. (1:06:37)
– Appeals court: Southwest's lawyers don't have to go through right-wing "religious freedom" training. (1:14:35)
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| 1:02.1 | We have so many things to talk about today, but there was some breaking news this morning, like literally as I was prepping stuff for this. Oh, really? And I don't know if you've heard it yet. |
| 1:13.3 | No, I've not been online now. So this involves the Supreme Court. And I know. That's the right |
| 1:18.7 | reaction generally when there's a Supreme Court story. But the last time we talked about this, |
| 1:23.5 | it involved that Oklahoma charter school. Oh, yeah, yeah. Do you remember that? So just to give you some |
| 1:28.3 | background on the case, it involved St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School. And this |
| 1:34.3 | would have been a publicly funded charter school that Christians tried to open up in Oklahoma last |
| 1:41.0 | year. But then the Attorney General of Oklahoma, who's weirdly good on |
| 1:44.9 | church-state separation, was like, you can't do that. You're not allowed to use public money |
| 1:48.9 | to support, to endorse religion in any way. The Supreme Court of Oklahoma voted seven to one |
| 1:55.3 | to defend church-state separation. They said, you can't have this school. And it's not just |
| 2:00.7 | that the state would have |
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