Ep. 89 - Cristin Padgett, Openly Atheist Texas House Candidate

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Cristin Padgett is a Democrat hoping to win a seat in the Texas State House. She’s doing that in a heavily gerrymandered district in a very red part of the state. What makes her candidacy so unique, though, is that she has made public the fact that she's an atheist, making her one of the only openly non-theistic candidates this election cycle in any part of the country. Not exactly part of anyone's playbook in Texas politics. We spoke with Padgett about how she can convince Texans in her district to support her, what she could accomplish with a Republican majority in the House, and what she learned from the failed gubernatorial campaign of Wendy Davis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Kristen Padgett is a Democrat hoping to win a seat in the Texas State House.
0:35.2	She's doing that in a heavily gerrymandered district in a very red part of the state.
0:40.4	Uh, seriously, District 33 looks like an upside-down you if you get to look at a map.
0:46.4	What makes her candidacy so unique, though, is that when she announced it, she also announced
0:51.6	that she wasn't religious, which I assume is not exactly part of anyone's
0:55.9	playbook in Texas.
0:58.1	So Kristen, thanks so much for joining us.
1:01.1	I'm absolutely glad to be here.
1:04.0	I thank you for reaching out to me and extending the invite.
1:07.0	Absolutely.
1:08.0	So let me get that out of the way right now.
1:11.0	Why introduce yourself to the state as an atheist?
1:15.0	So, I, so that is not, so it's not one of my platform.
1:21.0	And it wasn't, And it wasn't, I didn't do it in tandem with my announcement.
1:28.0	Okay, we'll fix that.
1:30.0	It wasn't in tandem with my announcement. It came later, months later actually.
1:35.9	And I knew, as a matter of fact, so let me back up a little bit.
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