Hey, everybody! Hi, friends! Well, from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah, it's Thank God I'm Atheist, the podcast. I'm Frank Feldman, and I'm Dan Beecher, and, coming up...

On the show today, Dan, a big revelation about the Mormon Church, and which none of us could have seen coming.

Shocking! Shocking news that a religion has covered up foul deeds. So we're gonna get into the particulars of how they did it. Of course, the story is chock full of lawyers. That makes sense.

That makes sense. Mormons are loyered up, you guys. Or at least, sorry, the Mormon Church is loyered up. Yeah, that's... yes.

All right, but they are in it for them, and we're going to talk about it, yeah.

But first we've got some stories, some things that happened in the news this week eat.

And I'm gonna start with one down, down there in Georgia, but it's gonna be the place to go if you are pregnant, and you want a tax deduction.

Because what they are up to, their Department of Revenue has announced that they would begin to, quote, recognize any unborn child with a detectable human heartbeat as eligible for an individual income tax dependent exemption.

Worth up to $3,000 a year. Basically, they're giving, they're extending the child tax break, tax break to people who have a bun in the oven.

Yeah, so they called their bluff as what they did. Because like one of our arguments has always been, well, if they're people, kind of pregnant woman driving the carpool lane, which somebody recently tried, pregnant person, sorry.

But yeah, okay, fine. You know, at least they're making it a goofball attempt at consistency.

Yeah, if nothing else, right? But they're not being fully consistent because the example that you just stated, the one of the HOV lane, the high occupancy lane,

and a woman in Texas tried that recently. And she's actually, she's gonna go to court and she's gonna try out her argument there in her defense in order to try to avoid a traffic ticket.

It's kind of insane. It's absolutely insane because the thing is, like just because there's a detectable heartbeat, which is how they're defining it.

Also, there isn't, by the way. Well, but that's, that's what they're saying. That's how they define this thing.

You know, miscarriages often happen. Yeah.

It's still in that, that, that first trimester. So what? The state's gonna be giving out tax breaks for, for miscarriages too.

Right. Yeah. I mean, like, it's insanity. They're opening up here. I had a person for a month. So does that count? Yeah.

Apparently, according to what they're saying, it does. Yeah. It's, that's, it's a, it's, it's, it's the stupidest can of worms to open. But they're, they're opening it.

They are, they're just gonna crack that can. So there you go. All right. Well, way to go ding dong's. They're so dumb. Can I just, by the way, say that the argument has never been about, our argument has doesn't need to be about whether or not a fetus is a person.

It is literally the body, body autonomy argument. All right. The only thing that matters is, can you compel a person to give up or, or, or to use their body in a way that they don't wish to to support the life of another body.

And if you don't think that you can, and like, you know, for those of you who want to make this argument with family and friends, don't, I mean, I think don't bother. But if you do, you just say, can I, you know, if I need, if, if some stranger needs a liver, can the government force you to, you know, to, to get, to give up half of your liver as a liver transplant to a person. And if they say no, then you can't, then the government can't also

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