"The Littlest Disciple" #115

Thank God I'm Atheist

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🗓️ 24 January 2014

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Conservative protestants and their contagious divorces, “Tiger Mom” writes book about why Mormons and Jews are more socioeconomically successful, Louisiana parents sue school district, Indonesian President discusses a belief of his, conservative UK lawmaker gets kicked out of his party for saying something his American counterpart would have been praised for, a nun in Italy gives birth, and an example of how the Mormon Church exerts its control over the Utah State Legislature.

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0:00.0	The Hey everybody. Hi guys. Well from the Lickard up City of Salt Lake City, Utah.
0:22.8	It's, thank God, I'm atheist, the podcast.
0:25.2	I'm Frank, and I'm Dan.
0:27.2	Coming up on today's episode, we're going to be talking about liquor,
0:32.2	booze and the Mormon church. You liquor, you broader.
0:36.0	And Utah. Okay. And basically it's a cautionary tale.
0:43.4	I don't know what the tail is.
0:46.4	It's uh...
0:48.0	But I will say this, people who come to Utah are certainly fascinated by our liquor laws and
0:55.2	we're going to talk about the Mormon churches they don't exact they don't exert any
1:02.2	influence do they of whatever whatever law they want to have
1:06.4	control over they get to have control over it's a special situation yeah that's a
1:11.2	nice system we'll get we'll get. Separation of church and state is strong.
1:16.0	Mm. In Utah. Separation of church and state in Utah is about four blocks. That's true.
1:22.0	It's not even that. That's true.
1:22.8	It's just, not even that.
1:24.8	Not it's like two blocks.
1:26.0	Maybe.
1:27.2	Two city blocks.
1:28.6	That's the church office building, state capital.
1:30.9	Anyway, we'll get to all of that.
1:32.4	It'll be fun.
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