Episode 248 Is science broken?

Published: April 26, 2018, 7 a.m.

b"Discussion - Is science broken?\\n\\nNEWS\\n\\nMormon president told Africans that tithing was the solution to poverty\\n\\nWhile visiting Nairobi, Kenya, Russell Marion Nelson Sr, the President of the Mormon church, addressed a crowd of over 2000 and talked to them about tithing, saying:\\n\\n\\u201cWe preach tithing to the poor people of the world because the poor people of the world have had cycles of poverty, generation after generation. That same poverty continues from one generation to another, until people pay their tithing.\\u201d\\n\\nPoverty, by definition, is not having enough money to meet basic needs like food and shelter, yet in his mind it\\u2019s a spiritual problem and the solution is to give 10% of not enough money to feed your family to the Mormon church.\\n\\nLiberty Counsel's attorney says that Satan is behind sex ed programs\\n\\nMary McAlister and \\u201cActivist Mommy\\u201d Elizabeth Johnston are working on \\u201cSex Ed Sit Out\\u201d where they are trying to get parents to remove their kids from school in protest of \\u201cgraphic, gender-bending sex education.\\u201d\\n\\nTo help promote this event McAlister, who works as a senior litigation counsel for the Liberty Counsel, went on Cliff Kincaid\\u2019s \\u201cUSA Survival\\u201d program last week to promote the event. He asked her about her twitter bio where she includes the line that she is working to \\u201cstop the satanic sexualization of our children and the destruction of the family.\\u201d Here\\u2019s her response:\\n\\n[Play Audio]\\n\\nIn Closed-Door UN Meetings, Trump Administration Officials Pushed Abstinence For International Women\\u2019s Health Programs\\n\\nIn closed door meetings at the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women the United States delegation came in to the right of Russia and Arab states. Our representatives, coming from the US\\u2019s UN delegation, HSS, and USAID demanded that contraception, abortion, and comprehensive sex ed to be removed from the standards for what UN calls for to improve the status and rights of women around the world. They also called on all women\\u2019s health programs to promote abstinence only sex ed.\\n\\nFortunately, the rest of the countries present joined together against the Trump administration with most of the 45 countries backing comprehensive family planning. This includes very conservative countries where abortion is illegal.\\n\\nPresident Yoweri Museveni of Uganda wants to ban oral sex\\n\\nPresident Yoweri Museveni of Uganda wants to ban oral sex because the mouth is for eating.\\n\\nFFRF win: N.J. Supreme Court upholds bar on funds to repair churches - Freedom From Religion Foundation\\n\\nA school bus driver in MN was removed from his route and probably fired for leading students in prayer\\n\\nSenate Confirms Climate Change Denier To Lead NASA\\n\\nSenate passes resolution allowing Duckworth to bring baby on floor\\n\\nThis episode is brought to you by:\\n\\n* Travis McGee\\n* Danielle\\n* Michael\\n* Darryl\\n* Arthur\\n* Mike\\n* The Flying Skeptic\\n* Kim\\n* Rachel\\n* John\\n* Josh\\n* Rob\\n* Al from South Carolina\\n* Henry\\n* Alexandra\\n* Alan\\n\\n\\n\\nYou can find us online at www.htotw.com, follow us on Twitter @AtheistNomads, like us on Facebook, email us at contact@htotw.com, and leave us a voice mail message at (541) 203-0666.\\n\\nTheme music is provided by Sturdy Fred.\\n\\n\\n\\nDOWNLOAD EPISODE"