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

— TLC cancelled the Duggar family’s latest show “Counting On” after Josh Duggar‘s latest criminal allegations. (0:33)

— Right Wing Watch was banned, then reinstated, from YouTube. (8:57)

— A new partnership would fix a broken relationship between the University of California and Catholic hospitals. (24:27)

— Pope Francis is not an ally to LGBTQ people. (37:28)

— A Christian business owner doesn’t want to rent tuxes to a lesbian couple. (44:39)

— The New Jersey Supreme Court will hear a case involving an unmarried pregnant woman fired from a Catholic school. (50:10)

— A new analysis finds that an even greater percentage of white evangelicals voted for Trump in 2020 than 2016. (55:45)

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

— A Christian singer released an awful song called “Modest is Hottest.” (2:12)

— Televangelist Jim Bakker has to pay people back over $156,000 for selling them a fake COVID cure. (15:50)

— An Anglican school in Australia taught boys to assign point values to girls… while the girls were taught to remain virgins. (24:48)

— Atheists are suing Mississippi over their religious license plates. (31:30)

— How “Catholic” is Joe Biden? This is apparently a matter of debate. (38:36)

— An evangelical has awful advice for dealing with trans colleagues. (52:27)

— How can atheists win elections? This newly elected alderman in St. Louis has a lesson for us. (1:00:07)

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

— The Christian baker who wouldn’t make a cake for a trans customer lost his case. (3:38)

— Was the Supreme Court’s disappointing decision in Fulton actually a win for church/state separation? (14:50)

— What is going on in this weird video of Ted Cruz randomly saluting a flag? (30:30) 

— Atheists overwhelmingly oppose the death penalty. Christians, not so much. (32:33)

— A Trump-loving Republican politician in West Virginia came out as gay. (39:42)

— Florida will now force kids to observe one minute of silence in school. (46:13)

— Does the new leader of the Southern Baptist Convention know the people he’s leading? (50:50)

— Christian liar Kayleigh McEnany says she’s not a liar because she’s a Christian. (1:04:50)

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

— A number of well-known New Atheists have drifted to the right… but to varying degrees. Here’s a great episode of Serious Inquiries Only with more nuance! (2:45)

— Conservatives are very upset that a graduation speaker said the Pledge of Allegiance “Under Allah.” (21:08)

— Does it matter that Christian denominations are fading away? (28:02)

— Even a majority of Republicans support marriage equality now. (36:45)

— The GOP chairwoman wished people a Happy Pride Month. It didn’t end well. (45:04)

— How much credit does Burger King deserve for this Chick-fil-A shade? (53:40)

— A Christian group wants body cams on teachers to make sure they’re not teaching about race. (1:02:36)

— A(nother) Noah’s Ark replica is creating all kinds of chaos. (1:10:30)