Ep. 258 - Sticking God In Tennessee's Constitution

Published: Feb. 23, 2019, 7:51 a.m.

b'Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.\\n\\u2014 A California law would force Catholic priests to report child sex abuse. (0:41)\\n\\u2014 Washington legislators want to remove faith-healing homicide exemptions from the law. (6:47)\\n\\u2014 A Colorado billboard welcomes women seeking abortions. (11:30)\\n\\u2014 A Tennessee legislator wants to change the Constitution to include a useless line about God. (21:10)\\n\\u2014 A Wyoming lawmaker supports the death penalty since that\\u2019s how Jesus was killed. (25:52)\\n\\u2014 Who\\u2019s to blame for the Flat Earth movement? YouTube. (27:50)\\n\\u2014 Should a former teen ISIS member be allowed to re-enter society when she becomes an adult, if she doesn\\u2019t have any remorse? (32:50)\\n\\u2014 Move over, Christian bakers. You\\u2019ve got company in the tax department. (41:55)\\n\\u2014 The Church of Norway is apologizing for its stance on abortion. (45:42)\\n\\u2014 Pope Francis said critics of the Catholic Church were \\u201cfriends of the Devil.\\u201d (48:52)\\n\\u2014 Catholic cardinals blamed the \\u201chomosexual agenda\\u201d for the sex abuse scandal. (50:30)\\n\\u2014 Michigan\\u2019s attorney general is going after the Catholic Church and its sex abuse cover-up. (52:16)\\n\\u2014 A Christian Right leader went on a rant about witches in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\\u2018s district. (56:05)\\n\\u2014 What the Southern Baptist sex scandals teach us about the Catholic Church sex scandals. (1:00:40)\\n\\u2014 An 11-year-old was arrested after he didn\\u2019t say the Pledge. Kind of. (1:04:15)\\n\\u2014 What is going on with Jussie Smollett? (1:07:10)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'