597 - This Candidate for Office Opposes Women in Office

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 106 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!

— Federal judge blocks Texas law forcing the Ten Commandments in schools from taking full effect. (1:50)

— He's a priest. She was a 17-year-old dancer. He paid her to stay quiet. She refused. (31:13)

— Christian pastors in Kentucky urge theft of LGBTQ books from Shelbyville public library. (43:55)

— Faith, power, and abuse: The scandal rocking Truett McConnell University. (1:01:25)

— Mylie Biggs, who believes women shouldn't run for office, is running for office. (1:24:35)

— Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick demands citizens stand for Christian prayers—or else. (1:37:12)

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0:00.0	This is Hemet and Jessica.
0:01.6	And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
0:03.8	Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support the show, get your ad-free
0:09.2	and bonus episodes, and maybe more soon.
0:11.3	We'll work on that.
0:12.3	We'll get to it.
0:14.3	So really quickly, before we start, we wanted to shout out that we are about to hit our
0:20.0	600th episode, and we are celebrating
0:22.9	with an in-person, not live recording. We're just meeting in person and hanging out with some of the
0:29.5	people who might be willing to drive to Naperville slash Aurora. This is at solemn oath brewery in Naperville. And all the details for that
0:42.8	celebration. It's taking place on Saturday, September 13th at 5 p.m. local time. If you're, I don't know,
0:50.8	within eight hours of driving, come on by. It feels reasonable to me. Buy a plane ticket. What do you got going on that weekend?
0:56.3	And what are we celebrating that day? Not only episode 600.
0:59.4	Yeah, I turned 40 on October 1st and September 19th is my 10-year anniversary with my husband.
1:05.9	So it is just going to be a big celebration of all the things of things um i'm very excited it's going to be
1:13.8	you know we've done stuff like this before i have never done one where i'm like inviting
1:18.1	my actual real life friends no offense like you got listeners you are all my friends and i love you
1:23.0	but like my real life people who i like do volunteer work with. I'm inviting people like that.
1:28.5	So everyone's coming.
1:25.3	I'm excited. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. Yep. Hope to see you there. My dog will be there, Daddy, if anyone who wants to meet it. It's kid friendly. It is kid friendly. It is animal friendly. And it's one of those places that assuming the weather is nice will be outside in their tents. Yeah, we've got like a little picnic couple to picnic tables and like a fire pit
1:27.4	set up. It's going to be really, really a lot of fun. All right. Let's start with stories. And this is one. I know this is going to go up on Thursday, and today is Wednesday when we're recording this. But we, I told you, hey, I'm not coming over to record yet because there's
2:02.5	breaking news. Yeah, I rushed out of the barn to get home in time and nope, rushing, breaking news.
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