Ep. 310 - Eugenics "Works," Says Richard Dawkins

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 51 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. — Students near Seattle protested after their Catholic school fired two teachers in same-sex relationships. (0:22) — A Christian political group posted a survey about how much people wanted Christian politicians. It didn’t go well. (9:55) — Sen. Amy Klobuchar needs a much better answer on how big to make the Democrats’ “big tent.” (14:30) — High school girls are suing to prevent trans athletes from competing against them. (21:26) — A professor who refused to call a student by the proper pronoun has lost his legal challenge. (22:22) — Holy Land Experience, a Christian theme park, looks like it’ll be shutting down soon. (24:24) — For some reason, Richard Dawkins wants you to know that eugenics works. (28:30) — A satirical pro-Trump road sign was a bit too realistic for many. (43:22) — Two Christian girls want other young women to know self-affirmations are the WORST. (45:00) — A Tennessee man is accused of beating his wife because of what she wore to church. (47:47) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hammond and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast.
0:03.4	Please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast.
0:08.0	Hello.
0:09.0	It's an early Wednesday episode because we have a bunch of random stuff going on.
0:13.2	So we'll just get right into this.
0:15.2	I got 25 minutes of notice before this episode.
0:18.0	Excellent.
0:19.0	I figured we would start with something somewhat optimistic, so I wanted to give you this story that just
0:24.4	happened this week in Seattle just outside of Seattle there is Kennedy Catholic
0:29.7	high school typical private Catholic school I guess a week or two ago they school.
0:33.0	I guess a week or two ago, they fired two teachers.
0:37.0	They did nothing wrong, but it was discovered
0:40.0	that I think both teachers are in same-sex relationships, maybe one just got engaged,
0:45.0	not with each other, both of their separate partners, but they were both basically
0:50.5	fired. Now the school didn't say that in a letter to parents they said
0:54.6	both teachers voluntarily resigned which may or may not be the exact same
0:59.3	issue like they didn't voluntarily resign because they want to do but maybe because they were
1:04.3	pressured to do it.
1:06.4	But in any case these were two popular teachers who other than being in being gay and
1:12.1	presumably with partners and they're not celibate, like or not planning to be because
1:17.4	they're about to be married or something.
1:19.2	They didn't do anything wrong.
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