Ep. 191 - Why, Al Franken, Why?

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- How should we be reacting to the news that Sen. Al Franken once groped and kissed a model without her consent? (0:42) -- Roy Moore's defenders are not making him look good. (18:17) -- An Australian lawyer will help a Christian couple get divorced after marriage equality passes. (24:43) -- An assisted suicide bill was defeated in New South Wales, in part due to misinformation. (27:30) -- Will Donald Trump hurt the "pro-life" movement in the long term? (31:49) -- A conservative Ohio lawmaker resigned after getting caught having an affair in his office with another man. (37:44) -- Should Muslim Barbie wear a hijab? (42:00) -- Televangelist Jim Bakker says "They outlawed 'Merry Christmas' a few years ago." (44:45) -- Did this truck driver break any laws when she put a derogatory message about Trump on her back window? (48:55) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmant and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist podcast.
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0:08.0	atheist podcast.
0:09.0	Hey Hemmett, how are you feeling?
0:11.0	Oh, I have such a headache this week. week haven't has a different sickness this
0:15.4	I know I blame the kids as I will do for everything ever so this week so this week
0:22.2	sucked this week sucked. This week did suck. This I mean I feel like we say that every week
0:29.0	That's because every week does suck. Yeah so yes so this is we're recording on Friday, the 17th.
0:35.9	It's noon, it's among our earlier recording sessions,
0:39.6	but I'm heading into the city after this.
0:41.4	So yesterday we found out about the allegations about
0:45.8	El Franken and that fucking sucks. It does. Because he's so good on the issues and he's so good on women's issues.
0:56.0	And it just, I mean...
0:58.4	So what do you do with him?
0:59.8	If you...
1:01.0	Because I've been going back and forth on this I'll see like one person say it was a harmless I mean not harmless it was a stupid thing he did
1:08.8	But it happened way back before he even thought he was going to be a senator.
1:13.0	I mean, it was like 10 years ago.
1:14.6	We're not talking the seven days.
1:16.2	Right.
1:17.4	So I haven't 10 years ago.
1:18.6	Should have known better.
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