SCOTUS Leaves Equality Standing—and Kim Davis Paying
Thank God I'm Atheist
TGIA Media
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
SCOTUS just delivered a win for marriage equality. After nearly a decade of appeals, lawsuits, and national drama, the Supreme Court has officially declined to hear Kim Davis' case challenging gay marriage… leaving the original ruling in place and the former county clerk on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars. What does this mean for gay marriage going forward? We break it all down.
This week's episode dives into the biggest religion-and-politics stories making headlines:
- SCOTUS rejects Kim Davis • Marriage equality remains intact
- U.S. Catholic Bishops elect a far-right "culture warrior" to lead the conference
- Transgender Air Force veterans sue the military after losing retirement benefits
- HVAC tech sues employer for forcing him to work with women (Billy Graham Rule meltdown)
- Pastors running as Democrats in 2026 races
- The UK is building a 168-foot monument to "answered prayers" (and it's… actually cool?)
- Plus, this year's Holiday Survival Guide for atheists navigating religious family gatherings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, |
| 0:03.0 | Hi, friends, well from beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah. |
| 0:22.9 | It's thank God I'm atheists. |
| 0:24.8 | Where we a couple of wacky atheists just really, really work hard to try and make sense of life in the Christian, fascist, white supremacist, United States of America. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm Frank Feldman. |
| 0:40.4 | And I'm Dan Beecher. |
| 0:41.9 | And coming up on the show today, Dan, we're going to be giving some holiday advice. |
| 0:48.4 | It's going to be the TGIA holiday survival guide. |
| 0:52.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.1 | For other, |
| 0:54.9 | our fellow atheists who may be encountering a religious family during the holidays. |
| 1:03.2 | Do you like me have a father-in-law? |
| 1:05.5 | Let's talk about it. |
| 1:08.9 | Let's figure it out. |
| 1:10.8 | We'll figure it out together. Yeah. figure it out. |
| 1:12.4 | We'll figure it out together. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.1 | So, |
| 1:15.1 | fortunately, |
| 1:17.0 | my mother-in-law is like-minded. |
| 1:18.2 | Yes, |
| 1:19.5 | that is handy. |
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