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b'***An audio glitch in an earlier upload of this episode has been corrected. Apologies for the error!***\\nPlease support the show at\\xa0https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast. Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode.\\nJessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics.\\n\\u2014 A new damning report examined sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Illinois. (0:55)\\n\\u2014 Even the most dedicated Catholics are walking away from Church services. (21:23)\\n\\u2014 A new Florida law allows four minutes of loudspeaker prayers at high school playoff games. (32:13)\\n\\u2014 The Jehovah\\u2019s Witnesses are trying to pretend they didn\\u2019t create two videos promoting disfellowshipping/shunning. (41:32)\\n\\u2014 A Christian school fired two staffers for including their pronouns in emails. (1:00:08)\\n\\u2014 A Satanist is suing Chicago for ignoring his \\u201cHail Satan\\u201d invocation request. (1:14:50)\\n\\u2014 Why did a Florida county honor conspiracy theorist and preacher Rodney Howard-Browne? (1:22:00)\\n\\u2014 Why did the Texas Ten Commandments bill fail? Not because Republicans opposed it... (1:29:45)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'