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Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— Now that abortion will be legal in Ireland, Focus on the Family is lying about what will happen next. (2:54)

— Donald Trump pardoned Dinesh D’Souza because nothing matters anymore. (19:44)

— The Mormon Church is way richer than we thought. (24:15)

— A Republican politician knows why school shootings happen: Kids are buying smut at grocery stores. (33:24)

— Atheists have filed a lawsuit for the right to solemnize marriages in Michigan. (49:48)

— An atheist’s lawsuit to get “In God We Trust” off the money has failed again. (55:10)

— An Archdiocese in Minnesota agreed to a $210 million settlement with sex abuse victims. (1:09:45)

— Homeopathic sound files don’t cure Ebola. Or anything else. (1:16:29)

— A rant on Roseanne and Samantha Bee. (1:23:17)

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Adam Laats is Professor of Education and History (by courtesy) at Binghamton University (State University of New York). He has contributed essays to Education Week, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post, TIME, and Newsweek. He blogs about education, history, and culture-war angst at I Love You but Youʼre Going to Hell.

He is the author, most recently, of Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education.

I spoke with him about how fundamentalist Christian colleges handle dissenting views, whether or not they exist in a bubble, and what faculty members debate behind the scenes.

If you support what we’re doing, please contribute to our Patreon page!

Queer Disbelief, a book Hemant edited, is now out on Kindle and in paperback! Go pick up a copy!

Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.

— Franklin Graham says Donald Trump’s affair with Stormy Daniels is “nobody’s business.” That’s not what he said when Bill Clinton was in office. (3:14)

— The Natural History Museum in Jerusalem is covering up an evolution exhibit so they don’t offend ultra-Orthodox Jews. (12:47)

— The 13-year-old “miracle boy” from Alabama, who survived brain trauma, isn’t a miracle at all. (14:52)

— Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson has apologized… kind of. Not really. (20:40)

— The Mormon Church says it’ll cut all ties with the Boy Scouts. (34:12)

— Not everyone was happy with the Met Gala theme: “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” (41:54)

— The rally for gay conversion drew tens of people. (51:45)

— Christian schools often censor student journalists, according to a new survey. (56:40)

— We answer listener mail! (1:03:11)