From Crooked Media, this isn't holier than now. I'm your host, Philip Picardy.

Well, everybody, ready or not. Election day is less than one week away.

Unfortunately, we can't guarantee we'll know who our next

president is come the evening of November 3rd. What we can say is that, especially

recently, this election has been one marked by religion.

And I say religion and not faith,

because I mean the institution, and not the practice.

This became evident most recently this week,

when Republicans rush to confirm Amy Coney Barrett

to the Supreme Court. They prioritized her appointment

one condemned by activists all across the spectrum overworking to approve another stimulus

plan for the nation's struggling working class. What we've explored in many past episodes on this

podcast is just how much the religious right has been fighting to engineer this

moment for decades. And in a little bit we'll hear more about the inside of

conservative Christianity from the author Robert P Jones. Jones, a former

Southern Baptist, has disavowed his religious upbringing. Now he's working to show

American Christians across the spectrum of ideology about their own complicity in white supremacy.

But first I wanted to take a moment to follow up on a story that received widespread

applause and attention last week.

Pope Francis has stirred up a longstanding-standing issue inside the Roman Catholic Church how to treat same-sex couples.

In the forthcoming documentary about his life Francesco, the Pope says on camera,

homosexual people have a right to be in the family.

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