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December 2023

2023 Garbage Year in Review

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On this (extra-long) podcast, Jessica and I discussed the past year in news!

We covered a whole variety of topics, going month by month, so feel free to jump around and listen in at any point!

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The Catholic Church Will Let Priests Bless Same-Sex Couples

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— The Catholic Church, which is still anti-LGBTQ, will let priests bless same-sex couples. (0:50)

— Here’s why Speaker Mike Johnson‘s attendance at a “Purity Ball” is so damn disturbing. (21:25)

— Conservatives can’t handle the existence of an After School Satan Club in Tennessee. (34:58)

— A Kansas teen launched the first high school Satan Club in the country. (46:33)

— A Nativity scene returned outside the Toledo, Iowa fire department… with two new additions. (53:00)

— An Iowa school district rejected a ministry’s offer to buy a vacant building and launch a Christian school. (1:02:25)

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Iowa Conservatives vs. Harmless Satanic Display

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— Conservatives can’t handle The Satanic Temple’s harmless display in Iowa’s Capitol. (0.37)

— Officials in Toledo, Iowa think their public Nativity display is legal. They’re wrong. (24:55)

— The ACLU made a critical error in defending Christian pseudo-historian David Barton. (32:20)

— The Mormon Church is buying up acre after acre of Nebraska. (49:36)

— Preacher defends criminally charged colleague, saying critics will be “sniped and taken out.” (58:15)

— Denmark reinstates blasphemy law, criminalizing the burning of holy books. (1:11:15)

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The Mormon Church Paid a Woman to Destroy Evidence

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Jessica and I spoke about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

Speaker Mike Johnson says God told him, in late-night hallucinations, that he was Moses. (0:59)

— The Mormon Church refused to help a sex abuse survivor, then paid her to destroy evidence. (13:18)

— The theme of this public school marching band’s halftime show? A Christian Tent Revival. (32:26)

Kirk Cameron wants schools to ditch Scholastic book fairs for a right-wing alternative. (42:20)

— Oklahoma Senate candidate: Parents who use IVF are “waging an assault against God.” (1:01:10)

— An all-female Catholic college will admit trans women. Haters can’t handle it. (1:12:48)

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