Ep. 282 - The Mike Pence Rule Strikes Again In A Sheriff's Office

Published: Aug. 10, 2019, 1:56 p.m.

b'Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast\\n\\nJessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.\\n\\u2014 In New Zealand, evangelicals have a \\u201ctrust\\u201d problem. (0:36)\\n\\u2014 Neil deGrasse Tyson\\u2018s thoughtless tweet after last week\\u2019s mass shootings. (6:30)\\n\\u2014 Donald Trump hammed it up for a picture with the baby who\\u2019s now an orphan because of Trump\\u2019s anti-immigration rhetoric. (21:45)\\n\\u2014 This Ohio lawmaker blamed the Dayton mass shooting on everything and everyone except guns. (26:59)\\n\\u2014 Mike Huckabee thinks more Jesus will prevent mass shootings. (29:29)\\n\\u2014 A Christian Cross in a Pennsylvania county\\u2019s logo isn\\u2019t promoting Christianity, a court says. (34:11)\\n\\u2014 A Christian sheriff says he was fired for his faith. It\\u2019s actually because he wouldn\\u2019t train a woman. (39:35)\\n\\u2014 Mike Pence has some horribly worded post-shooting advice. (46:00)\\n\\u2014 Does the Mormon Church deserve to be sued for lying to people? (48:15)\\n\\u2014 Most Catholics don\\u2019t believe in Eucharist, so why are they Catholic? (54:55)\\n\\u2014 Conservatives always offer \\u201cthoughts and prayers\\u201d in response to guns but never abortion. (1:02:26)\\n\\u2014 Joe Biden made a Bidenlike gaffe. (1:04:40)\\n\\u2014 The Boy Scouts have been sued for acting like the Catholic Church. (1:06:02)\\n\\u2014 Wanna do battle in the Times mini-crossword? Bring it.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'