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Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad Donishi. I'm faculty at the University

of San Francisco this semester and our show's host and a partnership with the CAP Center at UCSB.

And I'm back today with my co-host. I'm Dan Miller, Associate Professor of Religion and Social

Thought at Landmark College. Brad, welcome back and congratulations on changes in your life that

have occurred in the last couple weeks. Thanks, Dan. Thanks for handling things last week with Blake.

For those of you out there worried about, you know, where's my child while I'm doing this,

don't worry. I'm going to record with Dan and we have a great research associate with Swedge,

named Rachel Borthwick, who is helping us with the editing for now. And so if you haven't

checked out Rachel's podcast, out of the closet and into the pews, you should. It's amazing. It's

about queer people of faith and how they hold their identities in tandem and in resonance. So

I am going to finish recording here and run back down and attend to my newborn child

with my partner. So don't worry about that. But we do have important things to talk about,

and we're going to jump into those right now. So Dan, we want to talk about three things today.

One is Trump and the sort of ongoing revelations about the January 6th plan to basically overturn

the election and basically how that affects today. There's just direct effects today. So it's not

just more archival mining of what happened in January. We're going to talk about abortion and

Texas and the Supreme Court and one very promising angle to fight our restrictions on abortion.

And that is the idea that reproductive rights are religious rights. And so we'll get into that.

And then we'll finish by talking about the debt limit and McConnell and the nihilism of the GOP.

The extended segment for all you patrons out there is going to be about a new data from

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