Ep. 326 - The GOP's 2020 Platform is a Gift to the Christian Right

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2020

⏱️ 80 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. — The Trump administration finalized a rule that allows doctors to deny care to transgender people. (1:14) — A Christian group leader says America is not racist… because interracial marriages are going up. (11:46) — The GOP’s 2020 platform is a gift to the Christian Right. (17:55) — Should a pastor receive any sort of backlash for liking a right-wing blowhard’s tweets? (28:32) — Former Black staffers at Liberty University are trying to help others leave due to Jerry Falwell, Jr.‘s racism. (47:08) — Creationist Kent Hovind wants half a billion dollars’ worth of revenge against the U.S. government. (50:11) — Want to vote early in Tennessee? This secular church is eager to help you. (59:46) — A Tennessee bill would allow kids to skip an hour of school each day to go to church. (1:04:15) — An Ohio Republican lawmaker suggested COVID disproportionately affects Black people because they don’t wash their hands. (1:10:00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hemmant and Jessica and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support the show and I want to give a shout out to some of our more recent new patrons. Those include Thegis K, Jeff M, Lynette J, Aaron M, Freethinker
0:19.7	215, Ryan C, Zane J. Destiny L. and Bethany C. Thank you so much. We appreciate it.
0:27.6	Hello, Jess.
0:28.9	Do you think Ryan C gets called Ryan C crust sometimes?
0:31.7	God, I hope not.
0:33.0	For his fate.
0:34.0	Hey, Haman.
0:35.0	Oh, also, we usually send out letters.
0:38.0	Those are going to be a little bit delayed because
0:40.0	Hemet and I haven't been in the same room for two months,
0:42.0	so it's hard for us to both sign a thing.
0:44.6	Yeah, but we'll get those out soon.
0:47.5	Man, this week just seems to get progressively worse. Do you want to start talking about, let's talk about the news that just happened like a few hours ago,
0:57.0	and we can kind of go backwards from there.
0:59.0	Okay, I'm not going to lie since about 7 o'clock when I was making dinner. I made dinner and watched two
1:06.0	episodes of Lost and an episode of Shitts Creek so I have no idea what's going on in the news today. And guess what? I was happy for the first time in like a month.
1:13.4	No one gets to be happy yet.
1:15.8	I know.
1:16.8	Okay, so here's what happened. The Trump administration, this is Friday night, They basically finalized a rule that lets doctors, nurses,
1:27.6	insurance providers, employers, everyone associated with health care. They can refuse service to LGBTQ people
1:36.1	if it violates their religious beliefs.
1:38.6	But more technically speaking,
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