630 - NBA Player Waived After Anti-LGBTQ Rant
Friendly Atheist Podcast
Friendly Atheist Podcast
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
— Florida attorney general says state can ignore its own constitution to fund religion. (0:54)
— Bulls cut Jaden Ivey after anti-Pride rant (but not because he’s Christian). (9:25)
— School district cuts ties with group that secretly targeted kids for conversion to Christianity. (22:30)
— UK-based Bible Society admits claim of "Quiet Revival" of faith was based on bad data. (33:45)
— Federal judge orders removal of Ten Commandments display outside Arkansas Capitol. (53:25)
— Trump-appointed FEMA leader says he teleported to Waffle House. (1:02:35)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hemet and Jessica. |
| 0:02.0 | And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support the show. |
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| 0:14.1 | And hello, video people. |
| 0:15.5 | And let me give a shout out to some of our more recent supporters. |
| 0:18.7 | They include Jerry R. Sage P. Kimberly S., Michelle P., Deo, |
| 0:24.5 | 1991, graying apostate, and Emersave. Thank you so much for supporting the show. We appreciate it. |
| 0:31.8 | Thanks, everyone. We've been off for like two weeks because, you know, spring break I have I was trying to figure out which |
| 0:38.5 | stories I could skip because I was trying to triage and there's a lot of chaos so |
| 0:44.9 | sure it is on inside out is that's something you want to I'm sure it is I'll deal with it later |
| 0:49.1 | um yeah I'll do that on the video but let's with, let's start with this story out of Florida. |
| 0:57.7 | Because the attorney general in Florida just put out a statement recently that is completely |
| 1:04.1 | insane that he should not be putting out. |
| 1:06.5 | Florida? |
| 1:07.1 | Florida, can you believe it? |
| 1:08.4 | So Florida's constitution, like so many state constitutions, is very |
| 1:13.7 | blunt when it comes to can you use taxpayer dollars to fund religion. Here's what it says. There shall be |
| 1:20.4 | no law respecting the establishment or of religion or prohibiting or penalizing the free exercise |
| 1:26.7 | thereof. Very similar to the U.S. |
| 1:28.5 | First Amendment. It also says no revenue of the state or any political subdivision or agency |
| 1:34.7 | thereof shall ever be taken from the public treasury directly or indirectly in aid of any church, |
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