Ep. 546 - The Non-Religious Candidates on the Ballot

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Patreon supporters who give $5 a month will get an ad-free version of the show! Join our private Facebook group and Discord server! Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Why I didn’t publish a story I worked on. (0:25) — Tulsa mayoral candidate who wished all public officials were Christians loses race. (7:20) — If Amendment 2 passes, Kentucky would waste taxpayer dollars on religious schools. (19:33) — Christian pastors were told to start private schools since taxpayers would foot the bill. (32:03) — Here are the openly non-religious candidates for state/federal office in 2024. (44:55) — Teacher sues school district after getting fired for refusing to respect trans students. (1:02:24) SPONSOR: Sign up at butcherbox.com/friendly and use code friendly to get chicken breast, salmon or ground beef FREE in every order for a year plus $20 off your first order! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Haman and Jessica and you're listening to the friendly atheist podcast please go to patreon.com slash friendly atheist podcast to support this show get your ad free episodes and bonus episodes
0:14.0	Hello Hi and bonus episodes. Hello. Hi.
0:15.0	We have much to discuss.
0:16.0	Oh yeah.
0:17.0	Yes, do you want me to get started?
0:18.0	I suppose.
0:19.0	Okay.
0:20.0	Unless you want me to talk about my terrible week?
0:22.0	I do.
0:22.6	We'll save it for the bonus.
0:23.8	Great.
0:25.2	OK, so this is one where it's a weird story.
0:28.4	Because I want to, I don't even know how I want to say this,
0:32.3	but. Oh boy. I I got it my favorite thing about
0:35.4	writing about atheism stuff is I will get tips from people who are like here's a
0:40.0	story that's under covered maybe you want to dig into this, love those emails, because I do
0:45.7	dig into every single one of them.
0:47.7	You're a capital J journalist.
0:48.6	Oh, for sure, right.
0:50.8	But so I get this email about a very underreported like only one outlet published anything about it.
0:56.2	Oh and here's the gist of it. I'm gonna try really hard not to give identifying information
1:02.0	because I'm not trying to make this person's life worse, right?
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