590 - Catholic School Fires Widowed Gay Teacher

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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

— ACLU sues Michigan school after Palestinian teen bullied by teacher over Pledge protest. (2:20)

— Catholic school fires widowed teacher over same-sex marriage. (14:42)

— Oklahoma sued over school standards that mix Christianity with right-wing lies. (38:18)

— Supreme Court opens door to religious veto of public school lessons, starting with LGBTQ books. (55:55)

— Trump policies force global Humanist conference to abandon U.S. plans. (1:11:42)

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0:00.0	This is Emmett.
0:01.0	And Jessica.
0:01.8	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 your ad-free episodes.
0:09.6	Why do you sound grumpier than me for recording at night?
0:12.6	We're recording this at night at my request.
0:16.2	I was sitting down to dinner with my husband because life is terrible and I thought I could have a little
0:22.2	glimpse of relief and I get a thing.
0:25.0	We got to record now.
0:26.3	Yeah.
0:26.8	And so, listen, you got two glasses of wine, Jess, here with you.
0:32.3	Let's do this.
0:33.2	Excellent.
0:33.5	I figured I would open just with a quick thing.
0:36.6	I was out of town this weekend. Just everything's so bad and terrible is quick thing. I was out of town this weekend.
0:37.7	Everything's so bad and terrible is the problem.
0:39.2	I was out of town this weekend with my family and I was staying at a hotel and I walk into my room and there was a card because whoever checked us in ahead of time or something, let me just tell you, hello, Hammond. It is my pleasure to welcome you to this place. I hope that you enjoy your stay with us, and please don't hesitate, blah, blah, blah, if you need anything, dot, dot, dot. Thanks for always being a positive voice for atheists. What? With a Bible verse quoted at the very bottom. And I'm like, wait, this is either very good or very bad. What was the Bible quote? It's the one where the bears eat all the children. Oh, sure, sure, sure. I almost had to exit pursued by bear, but that's definitely Shakespeare. So I'm like, oh, that's sweet. Oh, congratulations. That's really nice. Thank you nice oh good for you so thank you to the person
1:28.9	who wrote that i appreciate it oh he just did prayer hands so you know he's really thankful i was um at
1:34.4	dinner at a regular place i go to and i was like oh my god my partner asked me to record tonight
1:39.4	which i've started saying partner which i like because people really bitter We're like bitter divorcees. I love it.
1:45.8	Yeah, like people have no idea what that means, and it makes me seem more interesting.
1:50.0	And I was like, oh, yeah, my partner wants to record tonight.
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