Political Gabfest - Why Did White Evangelicals Get So Angry
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Michael C. Dorf for Dorf on Law: “In a Post-Roe World, Can States Prevent Women From Seeking Abortions Out-of-State?”
Ruth Graham for The New York Times: “A Pastor and His Congregation Part Ways”
Ruth Graham and Elizabeth Dias for The New York Times: “The Growing Religious Fervor in the American Right: ‘This Is a Jesus Movement’”
The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church...and How to Prepare by John Dickerson
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Forbidden City, by Vanessa Hua; A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua; Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids, by Scott Hershovitz
John: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, by Andrea Elliott; Jon Ward for Christianity Today: “Being a Political Journalist Made Me a Better Christian”; The Bob Dylan Center; John Dickerson for CBS This Morning: “Bob Dylan Center: A Window Into the Voice of a Generation”
David: Mother Jones: “How Private Equity Looted America”; Our Earth: “Cool Airplane
Listener chatter from Nicholas Gaffney: Alex Hanson for The Valley News: “Croydon Reverses Slashing Of School Budget After Voters Turn Out For Special Meeting”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss the things they do today that would horrify their 25-year-old selves.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest. |
| 0:11.0 | For May 12th, 2022, it's the Why Did White Evangelicals Get So Angry Edition? I'm David Clause of Citycast. I'm here in |
| 0:23.6 | Washington, D.C., back from vacation, woefully, loathomely, unhappily back from vacation. I am joined |
| 0:30.9 | by Emily Bazelon at the New York Times Magazine in Yale University Law School from New Haven, Connecticut. |
| 0:38.0 | Emily, welcome. Hello? I'm glad you're back from vacation. And you have a new family member. |
| 0:44.5 | You have a new child. Congratulations. I have a new dog. Yes. Rosie has arrived. May we all survive. |
| 0:50.9 | All Emily has been doing is talking about Rosie, sending pictures of Rosie, chronicling Rosie's |
| 0:55.9 | sleep. Well, maybe we'll have a cameo from Rosie at some point on the Gab Fest. Is Rosie named after |
| 1:01.6 | someone in particular, or do you just like Rosie, or are you a fan of Rosie the Riveter, or do you |
| 1:07.6 | like Rose the Flower? Rosie the Riveter was an inspiration. |
| 1:11.6 | Really, Rosie was an inspiration. |
| 1:13.9 | Our congresswoman's name is Rose DeLoro. |
| 1:16.4 | I thought that was kind of funny. |
| 1:17.7 | It's overdetermined. |
| 1:19.4 | Overdetermined. |
| 1:20.2 | That was John Dickerson of CBS Sunday morning from New York, where he is recuperating. |
| 1:25.6 | Hello, John. |
| 1:26.8 | Hi, David. Hi, Emily. People who may not know, |
| 1:30.7 | because you would have no reason to know. The recuperating is that we all in our family got COVID |
| 1:36.8 | and still have it according to the testing. So that's what's up with us. That's why I wasn't |
| 1:43.9 | with you last week, which I was very |
| 1:46.1 | sad not to be with you, but it was a good, it was a very good show. But sorry not to be with you. |
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