Hey, everybody! Hi, friends! Well, from Gorgeous 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 new temple, Mormon temple, it's being proposed up in Cody, Wyoming, is causing quite the stir, right?

The people who live there, which actually surprises me, but we'll get to that. Yeah, we're gonna get to that. So there's a whole thing. The Mormons are kind of being bullies, and we're gonna talk about it.

But first, Dan, we've got some stuff. Things happened. This area is out in the world, and we need to talk about them. Well, then why don't we do that?

So my first story comes to us from Conroe, Texas. Oh, goody.

Which is not a small place. It's about 100,000 people. It's north of Houston, I take it. I feel like we drove through Conroe.

You think so? I don't know. Maybe we'd know. Who knows. Well, they have their local school district that, you know, has people from the community sitting on its board.

They come to their concerns about what's going on in the schools. Well, Melissa Duncan, a trustee, I guess a board member, right?

She wants to eliminate displays that she's calling symbols of personal ideologies from the classrooms.

She says that, well, okay, so she's sort of talking about this. And the other board members are like, can you give us an example of what are you talking about these symbols of personal ideologies?

And she says that a number of parents have reached out to her. And one of the stories that she heard was about a child

who had to be placed into a different classroom because of one of these displays that bothered the child, a great, a first grade student, right?

Whose parent was claiming that they were so upset by a poster that showed children of different races and ethnicities holding hands.

Oh, God.

And that she just feels like that this is a political statement. Oh, yes, very, very political.

So one of the other board members, I'm sure slowly leans forward and looks over at her and says, just so I understand, you were seriously suggesting that you find objectionable,

a poster indicating that all are included. And Dungan wouldn't say whether she found that poster objectionable, just that she wants to avoid situations like that by having the board adopt stricter standards,

and adhere to state policies already in place prohibiting teachers from displaying political items not relevant to the curriculum.

Because that is political. Yes. And that's playing with each other. I know.

Getting button political issue.

Different races getting along. Yeah, bad. Yeah, exactly. White kids being nice to not white kids.

Politics already. It may be okay to be nice, but equal. That's probably the representation. Anyway, another trustee sort of on Dungan side, it sounds like asked if the poster was illegal and went on to claim that previous displays of pride flags were definitely illegal.

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