Ep. 196 - The CDC's Word Ban Is Only Kinda Scary

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- Did the CDC really ban words like "science-based" and "transgender"? (1:21) -- An Oregon atheist threatened to sue over a religious street banner, but he has no case. (5:42) -- An Australian politician plans to defend Christianity against mockery. (9:49) -- Ivanka Trump wishes everyone "Happy Holidays!" (16:45) -- It doesn't matter that the BBC’s Head of Religious Programming is an atheist. (17:45) -- OKCupid says liking Donald Trump is a dealbreaker for users. (21:26) -- Democratic men are more likely to be feminist than Republican women. (23:50) -- A Milwaukee priest came out as gay, everyone celebrated it, but it's still heartbreaking. (30:57) -- Cardinal Law is dead. (38:11) -- "Feminism" is Mirriam-Webster's Word of the Year. (41:37) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hammond and Jessica and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast.
0:05.0	Thanks for joining us. If you like what you're listening to please go to
0:09.0	Patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast.
0:12.0	How's it going, Hammond?
0:14.0	It's going good.
0:15.0	I'm going to get...
0:16.0	Kind of stumbled out of the blocks there with our intro.
0:17.0	It's a long weekend.
0:18.0	I'm going to get one thing out of the way now.
0:20.0	Here's my happy thing for the week.
0:22.0	Okay, we're supposed to do it at the end. No, I'm going to say it now. The happy thing for the week. Okay, what's to do on the end?
0:23.2	No, I'm gonna say the happy thing.
0:25.2	It's all good.
0:26.1	The book that I've been talking about forever
0:29.2	and have spent like a year and a half working on.
0:32.9	It's called Queer Disbelief.
0:35.3	Camille Barajik is the writer.
0:37.6	But if you go on Amazon and type in Queer Disbelief,
0:41.0	it's now available.
0:42.3	You can get it in your hands. I will one day have
0:46.0	them in my hands. Are you prime eligible? Yes I think. Are you? It should be.
0:51.5	I don't know how that word it should be
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