Ep. 264 - The Mormon Church Is Slightly Less Anti - Gay Now

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Hemant is speaking near Chapel Hill, North Carolina next Sunday! Come watch! (0:24) — The Mormon Church has changed its rules to be a little less anti-gay. (0:56) — Atheists are calling on Mississippi to offer a free alternative to the default “In God We Trust” license plate. (7:54) — This is the worst Christian take on the election of Lori Lightfoot to mayor of Chicago. (14:09) — Texas will ban all chaplains from execution chambers instead of allowing a Buddhist priest to enter the room with an inmate. (17:01) — House Republicans voted against the Violence Against Women Act. (21:03) — A North Dakota legislator was very upset by a Hindu invocation because the man didn’t pray to the “One True God.” (23:21) — We finally have an openly Humanist member of Congress. It’s official! (26:30) — An Arizona information hotline may lose funding because 0.0003% of calls last year asked about abortion services. (29:39) — An unvaccinated kid may have exposed hundreds of people to measles in California. (35:30) — Liberty University’s Title IX violation form shows you how little they care. (40:45) — A guest of FOX News’ Laura Ingraham said transgender people are trying to “create a new species.” (43:20) — The HPV vaccine has been linked to a serious drop in cervical disease. (46:29) — Donald Trump doesn’t understand windmills. (47:35) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmett and Jessica and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist podcast and I'm very very sick.
0:05.6	Sorry, I haven couldn't be here today so I got James Earl Jones.
0:08.6	Yeah, and you can make me feel better by going to Patreon.com slash Friendly Atheist podcast. I'll try my best not to cough a to the mic the entire time.
0:16.4	I feel like this is going to be a jess heavy episode, huh?
0:18.9	You better talk.
0:19.9	Okay.
0:20.9	We'll get right into it because there's so much stuff.
0:23.0	Yes. I want to talk about it.
0:24.2	I'll give my really quick plug next Sunday on April 14th,
0:29.5	once I'm all better.
0:31.2	I'm going to be speaking to the Triangle Free Thought Society in North
0:34.9	Carolina. This is by Chapel Hill. So if you're in the area come check it out.
0:39.1	I'll post that information on the show notes. Okay, let's talk about what for me was kind of the strangest change.
0:50.0	Sorry, James O'Jrun left, now it's Peter Brady.
0:52.0	Hello. Yeah, you can make. Sorry, James, we'll turn left, and now it's Peter Brady.
0:52.5	Hello.
0:53.5	Yeah, you can make fun of me the entire episode here.
0:56.2	You know I will.
0:57.2	The Mormon Church has decided to make a huge change. And here's kind of the background on this. So in 2015 they announce
1:08.4	this new policy that said two big things. If you are in a same sex marriage you were committing an act of
1:16.2	apostasy which is like a pretty grave sin you could be punishable by church
1:22.2	officials and then the one that really got to be punishable by church officials.
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