248 - Cruz Is No Lucifer, but Trump Might Be the Anti-Christ

Published: Dec. 13, 2018, 5 a.m.

Original release May 5, 2016.

Encore release December 13, 2018.

Encore release September 5, 2017.

Recently retired\xa0Speaker of the House John Boehner told a Stanford University audience that \xa0Texas Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz was "Lucifer in the flesh" and "the most miserable son of a bitch" he's ever worked with. Nobody's less happy about the comparison\xa0than\xa0actual Satanists, who don't think Lucifer is real to begin with, and who object to Cruz's incessant moralizing and desire for full-on Christian theocracy. (Of course, Cruz has since dropped out of the campaign, leaving the field wide open for walking id Donald Trump.)

Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore continues his crusade to make life miserable for the LGBT community. He's sticking to his orders to state officials to ignore the Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v Hodges, which ensures\xa0equal treatment for same-sex couples who want to get married. Moore held a\xa0press conference\xa0recently, saying that "atheists, homosexuals and transgender individuals" were behind complaints against him. Well, duh.

Actor and fundamentalist evangelical Kirk Cameron is at it again. This time he's describing his (or maybe God's) version of a perfect marriage: "Wives are to honor and respect and follow their husband's lead, not to tell their husband how he ought to be a better husband." Yeah.

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