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596 - Kim Davis Asks SCOTUS to End Marriage Equality

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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

-– We’re having an in-person celebration in Naperville, IL to mark our 600th episode (and other pleasant things)! Details are here. Hope you can join us on September 13!  

— Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth praises pastor who thinks women shouldn't have the right to vote. (1:45)

— Pennsylvania priest accused of rigging church's Corvette raffle. (18:20)

— Once again, Kim Davis wants the Supreme Court to destroy marriage equality. (33:10)

— The "ministerial exception" is rapidly becoming a civil rights nightmare. (58:00)

— Despite legal rulings, California school district tries to revive Christian prayers at meetings. (1:12:43)

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0:00.0

Searching for a romantic summer getaway. Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new Audible original

0:05.2

from Lily Chew. The exquisitely talented Philippa Sue, returning to narrate her fifth

0:10.2

Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale,

0:15.5

set in Toronto's wealthy cottage country, aka the Hamptons of Canada, rich girl Summer follows the story of Valerie,

0:22.1

a down-on-her-luck event planner posing as a socialite's long-lost daughter, while piecing

0:26.5

together the secrets surrounding a mysterious family and falling deeper and deeper in love with the

0:31.7

impossibly hard to read and infuriatingly handsome family assistant, Nico. Caught between pretending to belong and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in,

0:41.3

Valerie learns her summer is about to get far more complicated than she ever planned.

0:45.8

She's in over her head and head over heels.

0:48.5

Listen to Rich Girl Summer, now on Audible.

0:51.2

Go to audible.com slash rich girl summer.

0:53.8

This is Hemet. And Jessica. And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.

0:57.8

Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show. Get your ad free and bonus episodes.

1:04.9

And we wanted to start out with a quick announcement. Would you like to start us out?

1:09.8

Yeah. We're having another meetup in

1:12.8

same place as last time Salam Oath Brewery in Naperville, Illinois. It's going to be September 13th.

1:20.9

September 13th, that's a Saturday at 5 p.m. 5 p.m. Let me tell you what we're celebrating.

1:31.7

One, our 6th 100th episode is coming out in the next couple weeks. Two, my 10-year anniversary with my husband. Three, I'm turning 40. All of these

1:38.9

things are happening within two weeks of each other. And so just going to try to gather humanity

1:43.8

and hang out for a little while.

1:45.2

Yeah. And the last time we were at Solem Oath, which seems like an appropriate title for this

1:52.3

gathering. It was cool. It was outdoors. It was a nice night out. So people were just hanging out,

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