BYU and the Gay Valedictorian

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 4 May 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Chris sits in for Dan and updates us on Saudi Arabia’s wife-tracking app and tells us about why predators are attracted to careers in the clergy. Other topics covered include: an elementary school in the UK suspends lessons on inclusion after parental outcry, Madison church offers marijuana as sacrament, Sri Lanka bans face veils in response to bombings, Iranian clerics issue fatwa over TV game shows, and a discussion about BYU’s gay valedictorian and what that means for the oppressive school.

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody from Salt Lake City Utah, the crossroads of the west.
0:22.8	It's thank God I made you.
0:24.4	The podcast.
0:25.4	I'm Frank Feldman.
0:26.3	And I am Chris Lemon in for Dan Beecher who is off sailing or on a sailboat.
0:31.3	Sailing away somewhere. I know like an a song yeah and coming up on today's show on the second half the show we're going to be talking about something that happened at the most recent BYU graduation ceremony
0:47.7	their valedictorian came out as gay during his little speechy thing so isn't that a thing.
0:56.4	Wow I'm sure some heads popped off.
0:59.4	I love the video because it's like there's this like pregnant pause from the audience and then people are like
1:06.5	yeah if I applaud if I applaud right now will I get called into my Bishop's office?
1:14.0	And we'll talk about whether or not you would have been coming up.
1:20.0	But first, Chris, thanks for being here. Thanks for filling in.
1:24.0	Dude, I am so excited to be here. It's been a while since I was here last, like probably
1:28.8	five months or so. Probably. Yeah. It's really good to be back. I'm super happy and stoked and
1:34.3	smiley about it. It's always lovely to have you. So, um, and yeah, so coming up
1:39.7	first I have a story about, unfortunately, in Iran, the Iatollah, the Grand Ietola Nasser Makamram Sharasi.
1:59.0	That was good, right?
2:00.0	Yeah, that's how you say it.
2:02.0	He has issued a fatwa, Chris.
2:05.0	Oh, on a very important topic.
2:07.0	So a fatwa is really like a call for execution, like a call for...
2:12.0	I think it's a call for execution, like a call for...
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