613 - Christian Mom Kidnaps Daughter

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Politics, News Commentary, Religion & Spirituality, News

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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

— A Christian mom who tried to ban LGBTQ books just got arrested for kidnapping her own daughter. (0:20)

— Will the Maine Supreme Court allow a mother to keep harming her daughter with religion? (20:10)

— Ohio appellate court lets makeshift church challenge local fire codes on religious grounds. (46:31)

— Four Christian pastors want their faith to override public safety concerns in a Colorado park. (1:05:05)

— Taxpayer dollars, Christian lies: What Alabama’s voucher program really buys. (1:15:41)

— Utah high school blasted for sermon-like video blaming "sin of laziness" for mental health struggles. (1:29:35)

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1:14.4	I'm wearing a jacket. He's wearing a coat. It's going to be allowed when he takes it off, but that's not my problem. There you go. There are so many things that you're going to go crazy with. Oh, good. You're going to enjoy this. Okay. Let me start with this story out of Arkansas because this one is insane and it gets weirder and weirder. I'm going to break it up into three parts. Are you ready? Great.
1:13.1	Okay. Here's part one. Last month, there was a 22-year-old woman
1:20.3	who has intellectual disabilities who was kidnapped in Crawford County, Arkansas. Oh, my God.
1:26.0	Really scary. Two men apparently arrived at her home wearing ski masks.
1:30.3	They abducted this poor woman and they drove her to an empty field.
1:33.9	They tied her to a tree.
1:35.4	She managed to escape.
1:37.4	And then these dudes catch her, hunt her down.
1:41.2	They retie her to that tree.
1:43.6	And guess what she does? She escapes again. She escapes again, finds her way. They retie her to that tree. And guess what she does?
1:44.8	Escapes again. She escapes again, finds her way to some house nearby and calls 911.
1:50.6	And when law enforcement comes to a rescue, here's what the officer said later.
1:56.0	She was in fear for her life and clung tightly to a teddy bear the entirety of me speaking with her during
2:03.1	her interview.
2:04.0	Okay.
2:04.8	Yikes.
2:05.9	Here's part two.
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