Mini-Episode: The Human Cost of Project 2025: A Story of Religious Discrimination in Adoption

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Co-produced with Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the episode features a story narrated by Andrew Seidel about Liz and Gabe Rootenram, a Jewish couple from Tennessee who faced state-funded religious discrimination when trying to adopt a special needs child. The episode highlights how Project 2025 could institutionalize discrimination against non-Christian and LGBTQ+ parents, affecting countless families across the nation. Listeners are urged to watch and share a three-minute video to raise awareness about Project 2025's potential impact. SHARE THE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viRKxpym7rY Americans United: https://www.au.org/project2025/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundi
0:07.0	Moundi
0:19.6	What's up y'all today? We have a mini episode on Project 2025 and the human cost that it poses. It's hard to tell a story about the ways that Project 2025 hurts people when it's not something
0:25.9	that's happened yet.
0:27.6	It is something that's being discussed at length, and I think most of you out there know some of
0:31.8	the outlines of what it aims to do but today I want to
0:35.2	bring you a story of how Project 2025 has and will affect people.
0:43.4	It's a story about adoption.
0:44.6	It's a story about people who are Jewish and not Christian.
0:47.8	And it's a story about families that don't fit the model
0:50.9	of what Project 2025 sees as the right kind of American family.
0:55.0	It's brought to you by Americans United and my good friend Andrew Cital.
1:00.0	So you're going to hear Andrew explaining this story and the context for it here in a minute.
1:04.8	And in the show notes you're going to find links to share this on YouTube,
1:09.1	to share this in many ways, whether social media or by email or however you want to do it.
1:14.8	It's something that Americans United and we here at the podcast believe will help people
1:19.8	understand what this will do for any number of families across the nation.
1:25.0	So here's Andrew and hope that this will provide a vivid glimpse of what may be to come if Project 2025 becomes a reality.
1:37.0	Project 2025 presents a challenge at 902 pages and The Playbook is Overwhelming and it's full of legales and
1:45.0	It's full of legales and government
1:50.0	governmental jargon so this threat is vague and it's hard to connect to people's personal lives and stories and moreover because this is a future threat.
2:01.6	This is something that is going to happen possibly
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