Ep. 474 - The Dalai Lama's Creepy Tongue
Friendly Atheist Podcast
Friendly Atheist Podcast
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.
— An anti-trans lawmaker from Missouri says it's okay for 12-year-olds to get married. (0:38)
— The Dalai Lama asked a child to suck his tongue. (15:08)
— U.S. Latinos are ditching Catholicism and becoming "Nones." (24:20)
— A Christian public school teacher is demanding the right to include "John 3:16" in her emails. (37:06)
— A NASA official swore her oath on Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot." (45:36)
— An anti-LGBTQ Christian mom sued Oregon for rejecting her request to adopt kids. (53:28)
— Oklahoma officials rejected a taxpayer-funded Catholic charter school‚Ķ for now. (1:03:29)
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| 0:06.6 | This is Hemingh Jessica and you're listening to the Friendly Atheist Podcast. |
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| 0:36.0 | And I will run your day very soon with these stories. |
| 0:39.0 | Oh, that was fun. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.0 | This is a neat relationship that we've established here. |
| 0:43.0 | I know. Let me run your day first with this story out of Missouri. |
| 0:48.0 | And they are, they were debating a bill that basically would ban gender-affirming surgeries for minors. |
| 0:58.0 | And it's sponsored. One of the co-sponsors of this bill is a state senator named Mike Moon. |
| 1:04.0 | And basically it would ban healthcare providers from performing transition related surgeries on minors. |
| 1:11.0 | They also would not be able to prescribe hormones or puberty blocking drugs to kids. |
| 1:17.0 | And just to state the obvious here, both of those things have immense value for trans kids. |
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