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b'This week we talk about the magic of crystals, Chile taking on pedophile priests, atheists winning in Florida, town like resort opening up to non-Christians, and more!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nEmail us at contact@htotw.com or leave us a voice message using htotw.com/speakpipe\\nSupport the show at htotw.com/donate\\nSubscribe at htotw.com/subscribe\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nANNOUNCEMENTS\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nWhy episode 310 was late\\nWhat I learned about Patreon\\u2019s fraud prevention\\nAtheist Nomads Camp out - Island Park, ID - September 13-15\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nNEWS\\n\\n\\n\\nChile removes statute of limitations on child sex abuse amid Church crisis\\n\\n\\n\\nIn response to the Catholic child sex abuse scandal Chile has just passed a law that removes the statute of limitations for rape, sexual abuse, production of pornography, and prostitution involving children and adolescents. This is not retroactive.\\n\\n\\n\\nPATRON ONLY - Netflix declared \\u2018un-Islamic\\u2019 by a Pakistani private bank\\n\\n\\n\\nU.S. appeals court rules Florida county cannot ban invocations by atheists\\n\\n\\n\\nBrevard County Florida was sued in 2015 by the Central Florida Freethought Community, Humanist Community of the Space Coast, and Space Coast Freethought Association over being rejected by the county when their members had requested to be allowed to deliver the invocations for the county\\u2019s meetings. They won in 2017 at the district court level, and they have now won at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe County even admitted that they would reject atheists, deists, Wiccans, Rastafarians, and polytheists, and would probably reject Hindus, Sikhs, and followers of Native American religions. While the Greece ruling allowed for sectarian invocations, it made it very clear that it has to be open to everyone and per this ruling, anyone of any religion or no religion.\\n\\n\\n\\n PATRON ONLY - Christian Student Group Claims Anti-Religious Discrimination at Wayne State University\\n\\n\\n\\nChristian requirement at Northern Michigan resort illegal, federal government says\\n\\n\\n\\nWe have an update on a story from Episode 238, which was released in February of last year. The Bay View Association of the United Methodist Church settled the lawsuit against them. At issue was their policy that everyone who owns a cottage at the resort be a member of the association, and all members of the association needed to be an active church going Christian. Additionally they had a requirement that a majority of board members be members of the United Methodist Church.\\n\\n\\n\\nIn February the HUD secretary ruled that Bay View was \\u201cengaged in unlawful discriminatory housing practices and retaliation against the complainants.\\u201d Then the Attorney General filed a complaint against them. Odds are it was really Ben Carson or Jeff Sessions that made these decisions, but that\\u2019s beside the point.\\n\\n\\n\\nTheir lawyers advised them to settle since going to court could result in them being ruled a town, not a private club, which would have resulted in them having to stop all of the religious programing the association does and settle they did. Gone are the requirements that members be Christian, that a majority of the board be Methodists, they are severing legal ties with the United Methodist Church and will be filing for their own tax exemption, and they will be under a consent decree and DOJ monitoring for the next five years.\\n\\n\\n\\nLebanese town bans Muslims from buying, renting property\\n\\n\\n\\nA Lebanese Muslim couple had a hard time finding an affordable apartment to rent in the Beirut metro area and when they found one, they were informed that the town only allows Christians to rent or buy housing. As it turns out, this only applies to Christian property, as Muslims who own property in the town are allowed to sell or rent to anyone.\\n\\n\\n\\nFor some background, at the time of Lebanon\\u2019s last official census, in 1932, Lebanon was a majority Christian country, but now is 2/3rds Muslim, about equally split between Sunnis and Shiites, due to Muslims in the country having higher birth rates than Christians.'