632 - Can Anti-LGBTQ Catholic Preschools Get Public Funding?
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 84 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 Denver, Colorado this weekend! Details are here!
— Texas can force Ten Commandments posters in public schools, appeals court rules. (0:54)
— Mormon Church sues critic John Dehlin over "Mormon Stories" podcast. (20:20)
— Utah Democrat Nate Blouin faces ridiculous backlash over decade-old comments. (36:31)
— Supreme Court to decide if anti-LGBTQ Catholic schools in Colorado can receive public funding. (58:45)
— He won a major school prayer case. It took years to get a proper obituary. (1:08:30)
— After angering Christians all week, Trump will read from the Bible as a publicity stunt. (1:14:58)
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hemet and Jessica. |
| 0:02.0 | And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show and get your ad-free bonus episodes as well, video recordings and all that good stuff. |
| 0:15.9 | And a quick heads up to anyone living in the Denver, Colorado area. |
| 0:21.3 | I will be giving a talk on Saturday, April 25th, around 4 o'clock, at the Secular Hub. |
| 0:28.6 | And that event is sponsored by FFRF Metro Denver Chapter. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm still figuring out what I'm going to talk about, but it's something I haven't given talks about before, I'm sure. So come on out. If you're able to, more details, if you search for secular |
| 0:42.4 | hub in Denver, Colorado. Hope to see you there. And for those of you looking for a worse, |
| 0:48.0 | cheaper option, you can hire me to come speak at your thing. There you go. Wherever you want. |
| 0:53.5 | Breaking news last night that we got to talk about. |
| 0:56.7 | Okay. |
| 0:57.3 | Because the Fifth Circuit, the Court of Appeals, they decided to rule that it's totally |
| 1:03.9 | fine for Texas to force public schools to put up posters of the Ten Commandments. |
| 1:09.1 | No. |
| 1:09.9 | It happened. |
| 1:11.0 | How? How? |
| 1:11.2 | How? |
| 1:11.2 | So, saw it coming from a mile away. |
| 1:13.3 | So did everyone who looks at this stuff. |
| 1:15.5 | But they finally issued their decision that basically says a Texas law that it was called |
| 1:22.1 | SB 10 appropriately enough. |
| 1:25.7 | Oh, because of the Ten Commandments. |
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