Ep. 201 - Donald Trump's Evangelical Christian Sex Mulligan

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. -- A GOP House member got called out on CNN for not knowing what the “Immaculate Conception” was. (4:14) -- The Christian Right is giving Donald Trump a "mulligan" on everything immoral he did before his presidency. (9:44) -- Generation Z, born after 1999, is less religious than any other age group. (22:33) - Self-hating atheist S.E. Cupp explained why evangelical Christians continue to stand behind Trump. (28:55) -- Courtland Sykes wins this week's award for most misogynistic Republican in the state of Missouri. (36:26) -- Want to alter South Dakota's state seal? You could have been jailed for it. (42:40) -- The nation was less supportive of LGBTQ people in 2017, compared to the previous year. I wonder what changed... (48:34) -- We have no confirmation yet on whether this church advertisement featuring a "hot" pastor is real. (52:15) -- The judge overseeing the Larry Nassar sentencing was on fire. (56:20) -- The Satanic Temple is using the Religious Right's legal arguments against them in Missouri. (1:01:33) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemet and Jessica 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
0:08.7	Yeah How are you? Oh, you know just had an exceptionally cranky week. How are you? Oh, you know, just had an exceptionally cranky week, how are you?
0:14.0	The same.
0:15.0	Yeah.
0:16.0	So I actually kind of want to talk about this thing that I do chatted you the other day.
0:20.0	I had an interview lined up and they called to cancel it because they found my
0:25.6	Twitter account and said that I used profane language and specified my pin to
0:31.6	tweet which is Donald Trump you're such an asshole.
0:34.8	Because it's from 2012, and I really want people to know that I'm not like new to hating Donald Trump.
0:39.8	It's been kind of my thing for years. I'm not surprised that they go through someone's
0:45.2	social media. I was surprised they told you exactly why. Why didn't they just say
0:49.7	no we're not interested? Well and they called me so I didn't have anything like on paper or whatever.
0:55.0	And I also didn't get to be like as salty as I really wanted to be.
0:58.1	Like she explained it to me and I was like, all right, bye.
1:00.6	Like, see you never.
1:02.3	As I told Jess, even if, assuming this is all legal,
1:06.0	which I didn't look it up or anything,
1:07.9	but I'm like, if they didn't know you,
1:10.0	if they're offended by you swearing,
1:12.1	what do you think's gonna to happen when they hire?
1:14.0	Well, what I wish I had the kind of wherewithal to get my thoughts together.
1:20.2	So it's, I'm just gonna say it it's Sears which is a pretty like pretty
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