Mormon Meddling #223

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 27 February 2016

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Frank and Mark discuss recent examples of LDS leadership officially meddling in Utah's lawmaking process. Other stories include: Eleven FLDS leaders have been indicted in food stamps fraud, NYC teacher claims anti-Irish discrimination, an orthodox Israeli bashes up TV screens mid-flight, Catholic archbishop wants alternative to Girl Scouts, the political clout of the "nones," holy milk.

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody. Well from impossibly gorgeous Salt Lake City Utah. It's thank God I'm atheist.
0:23.4	The podcast, I'm Frank, and sitting in for Dan, I'm Mark.
0:27.6	And coming up today, we're gonna talk about the Marmons
0:31.5	and they're either the control over the Utah State
0:35.8	legislature.
0:36.8	I know news alert.
0:37.8	Mormons have a lot of control in Utah.
0:41.7	So we're going to break that down. There were a couple big stories. Or, yeah, I don't know if they were big stories. They probably weren't as big of stories as they needed to be. But a couple incidents, this legislative session. of them really kind of getting involved and sticking
0:55.0	their nose in and sticking their nose in.
0:59.1	Oh yeah.
0:59.7	And without the subtlety for which they're usually known.
1:03.0	Yeah, normally it's all more behind the scenes.
1:06.0	Yeah. This year they just decided to come right out and say what they were thinking.
1:09.0	They are just coming apart at the seams.
1:11.0	So we'll take care of that in the second half of the show. Coming up now, of course, we've got some news stories. Headlines. Yeah, do you want to go? Do you want me to start? Sure. Well, mine is pretty exotic.
1:24.0	Okay.
1:25.0	Um, 11 people were indicted yesterday in Salt Lake City for defrauding the supplemental nutrition
1:31.6	assistance program known as SNAP or food stamps.
1:34.7	Oh, yeah.
1:35.8	But they don't look anything like the fictional welfare queens that Republican legislators
1:39.4	around the country have been touting to justify legislation aimed at telling food stamp
1:43.4	recipients what sort of food to buy. These are the FLDS. This is the remaining
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