Ep. 293 - Will Elizabeth Warren Hire A Secular Outreach Director?

Published: Oct. 26, 2019, 2:30 a.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 Hemant has a new YouTube channel! Have you subscribed? You should.\\n\\u2014 Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she\\u2019d consider hiring a \\u201cSecular Outreach Director\\u201d and Juli\\xe1n Castro says he doesn\\u2019t think atheism is a dirty word. (0:37)\\n\\u2014 A Major League Baseball umpire under fire for his violent pro-Trump tweet also happens to run a Christian ministry. (10:03)\\n\\u2014 The Christian Moms are furious at a commercial for period-proof underwear that featured men. (15:51)\\n\\u2014 The company Always removed the female symbol from its sanitary pads. (20:05)\\n\\u2014 An Italian photographer was convicted of blasphemy and ordered to pay a hefty fine. (22:15)\\n\\u2014 Pastor Greg Locke burned a book by attorney Andrew Seidel because it threatened him with education. (26:58)\\n\\u2014 A Tennessee GOP official trashed Democrats for having a \\u201cqueer running fo president.\\u201d (37:14)\\n\\u2014 Guess why abortion rates are falling in Colorado? Hint: It has nothing to do with abortion restrictions. (39:44)\\n\\u2014 Bible teacher Beth Moore needs to \\u201cgo home\\u201d because she\\u2019s a woman, said a male Christian preacher. (44:00)\\n\\u2014 A Republican didn\\u2019t really say women considering abortions should have to wear ankle monitors. (47:47)\\n\\u2014 God supposedly gave this woman the winning lottery numbers. But she didn\\u2019t play them. (52:41)\\n\\u2014 31% of white evangelicals think Donald Trump is infallible. (55:19)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'