Ep. 274 - The "Make America Straight Again" Conference

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — A group of extremist Christians are holding a “Make America Straight Again” conference this weekend. (0:38) — Romance writer Nicholas Sparks opened a Christian school that is anti-gay. (9:41) — A Tennessee law enforcement official thinks people like him should be able to put gay people to death. (12:41) — A prominent doctor, who is also anti-gay, promoted religion in his final article for a medical journal. (16:50) — Actress Jessica Biel is fighting against a vaccination bill in California. (22:26) — A Christian publisher insists their racist Bible School lessons aren’t racist. (28:25) — There are a whole bunch of “post-Christian” cities now. (34:14) — Rick Santorum is launching a Bitcoin for Catholics. (38:05) — Who knew meatless burgers were Satanic? (41:50) — The Vatican released a new anti-transgender document. (46:17) — Most Americans say the Catholic Church’s abuse scandal is an ongoing crisis. (48:45) — A pastor promoted God at a public school graduation in Appleton, Wisconsin… Again. (53:20) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0	This is Hamme and Jessica.
0:22.0	And you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast.
0:24.0	Please go to Patreon.com slash Friendly Atheist Podcast and support the show.
0:29.0	Thanks and read us and whatever it else it is you do.
0:32.0	I was looking through the notes that I had for today. read us and whatever it else it is you do.
0:32.7	I was looking through the notes that I had for today
0:34.8	and I realized like it's Pride Month
0:37.6	and just about everything is Pride related
0:40.6	or LGBTQ related and that's not even a coincidence that's just what everyone's
0:45.4	angry about now. Sure. And I don't even know where to start but I how are you
0:51.0	before I do that? I'm fine just woke are you? Before I do that.
0:52.7	I'm fine, just woke up from a nap, so a little out of it.
0:55.9	Congratulations.
0:56.9	Thank you.
0:57.9	Okay, this is the one that pissed me off the most,
1:01.5	so we'll start with this. there is a conference going on this weekend
1:05.3	in Florida in Orlando the location of the Pulse nightclub area in general on the third anniversary of that massacre.
1:15.0	And it's being put on by, you remember Pastor Stephen Anderson,
1:20.0	the independent fundamentalist Baptist preacher who hates gay people, and got banned
1:27.0	from like all of Europe on a recent trip.
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