610 - The Catholic League’s Bizarre Epstein Defense

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Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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

— Hemant will be speaking in St. Louis this weekend for the Ethical Society of St. Louis. Events are free to the public. COME!

— Supreme Court declines case involving loudspeaker prayers at high school football games. (1:45)

— The Catholic League’s Epstein defense is even worse than you think. (21:45)

— New Hampshire town pulls plug on open forum after Satanists hoist flag. (40:26)

— How the Assemblies of God became a safe haven for sexual predators. (49:15)

— Colorado’s “first public Christian school” isn't a mistake. It's a test case. (1:05:15)

— Florida's proposed loyalty oath for educators would ban atheists from becoming teachers. (1:13:40)

— U.S. Catholic bishops double down on anti-trans policies in new hospital rules. (1:18:00)

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0:00.0	Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co.
0:05.5	com.uk-Uk.-slash-wondery. That's audible.com.com. U.K. slash Wondery.
0:11.4	This is Hemant. And Jessica. And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist podcast.
0:15.7	Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show. Get your ad-free and bonus episodes and a video episode.
0:23.6	I'm looking at the camera right now.
0:25.2	Hi, my hair still wet from the shower I took this morning.
0:28.3	And by the way, if you live in St. Louis, I will be there this weekend for the Ethical Society of St.
0:37.1	Louis.
0:37.4	I'm giving several talks on Saturday
0:41.0	night, Sunday morning. All that information is at Ethicalshtel.org. All the events are free of charge.
0:51.3	They're open to the public. I'll be talking about atheism.
0:54.5	I'll be talking about some of the media stuff
0:57.6	and why you need to support independent creators,
1:00.6	which is something we've talked about on this show before.
1:03.8	And we'll be doing a whole panel about atheists who disappoint us and everything.
1:07.6	Good times.
1:08.1	Yay.
1:08.7	So lots of events.
1:09.8	It's in St. Louis. If you're anywhere
1:12.2	in the Missouri area, uh, come on by. And all those details will be in the show notes as well.
1:19.2	Yeah. Okay. Let's start. There's so much to talk about this weekend. I'm going to start by talking
1:26.1	about a major case that the Supreme Court decided not to
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