Ep. 194 - Jesus And The Wedding Cake Of Bigotry

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- The Supreme Court heard the case of an anti-gay Christian baker. (1:13) -- Roy Moore only has one issue on his platform: Abortion. Should Democrats have run an anti-abortion candidate? (10:40) -- Pat Robertson told a woman collecting unemployment checks that she needs to keep tithing if she wants to find a job. (27:50) -- Kim Davis will be challenged for her county clerk seat by a gay man whose marriage license she once denied. (29:43) -- The Pope may change the Lord's Prayer. (32:10) -- A GOP-appointed Florida commission may put church/state separation on the 2018 ballot. (35:04) -- Why would Mike Pence stick with Donald Trump? Because it's part of God's Plan for him. (40:48) -- Ravi Zacharias, whose falsified his credentials for years, blames you for his lies. (48:29) -- A former priest was finally convicted of a murder that happened 50 years ago. (56:44) -- Jessica unleashes an epic rant brought about by the question: Is hugging still okay? (58:09) 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. If you like what you're listening to please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast.
0:10.0	Some of you have done that we wanted to give you a shout out. Thank you so much to
0:14.4	Tasha M Matthew J Brian B Stuart L Enes B and Rebecca R thank you for your support really
0:21.9	appreciate it thanks Thanks everyone. All right we are
0:25.2	going to do a quick run-through of so many different things because there's a bunch of stories we
0:29.7	wanted to talk about this week. It was a bonkers week. I say that every week. Every week is the craziest week of
0:35.3	everyone's life. Yeah, remember when we said like, oh, 2016 was ridiculous. 2017 will at least be calmer.
0:41.5	It's actually the one year anniversary of us recording our like 2016 shit show thing.
0:47.8	And God, where were we naive?
0:49.0	Yeah, 2016 was a great year relative to...
0:52.0	Well, it was a year of a lot of people dying dying which I would say isn't super great but
0:56.0	but it only got worse.
0:58.0	Welcome to hell everybody.
1:00.0	In hindsight what were we expected in 2017?
1:03.6	There was no indication it was going to be better.
1:06.4	Yeah, 2018, it's going to be more hell until maybe November.
1:11.4	We'll see.
1:12.4	Anyway, let me start off by talking about the big Supreme Court
1:16.9	case that took place this week with that Baker,
1:20.4	the Christian Baker, who, just to give you the short recap of that story, two gay guys in Colorado
1:26.8	walked into masterpiece cake shop and the owner of that cake basically found out they were a gay couple who wanted to celebrate their marriage and he's like,
1:37.3	nope, not going to give you everything that I give to all the other customers.
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