472: Texas-stential Threat Edition

Published: March 3, 2022, noon

In this week\u2019s episode, Greg Abbott declares war on trans kids and their parents, Ben Carson considers using our strategic grain reserves in the Washington Monument, and Don Ford will be here because the voice of Reality and Inaction wasn\u2019t available.\n---\nTo make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist\n\nTo buy our book, click there: https://www.amazon.com/Outbreak-Crisis-Religion-Ruined-Pandemic/dp/B08L2HSVS8/\n\nTo check out our sister show, The Skepticrat, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-skepticrat\n\nTo check out our sister show\u2019s hot friend, God Awful Movies, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awful-movies\n\nTo check out our half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/\n\nTo check out our sister show\u2019s sister show, D and D minus, click here: https://danddminus.libsyn.com/\n\nTo hear more from our intrepid audio engineer Morgan Clarke, click here: https://www.morganclarkemusic.com/\n\n---\nGuest Links:\nLearn more about FreeFlo here: https://www.freeflo.org/\n\nCheck out the Atheism UK podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa37v-1G873DmiNrimfPlaA\n\n---\nHeadlines:\nTexas declared was on trans kids: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/texas-governor-calls-citizens-report-parents-transgender-kids-abuse-rcna17455\n\nSupreme Court to hear hate group lawsuit that could overturn LGBTQ protections\nhttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/02/supreme-court-hear-hate-group-lawsuit-overturn-lgbtq-protections/\nBen Carson says accepting church/state separation is a form of schizophrenia: https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/dr-ben-carson-accepting-church-state-separation-is-a-form-of-schizophrenia/\n\nConservatives freak out because teachers won\u2019t be able to look up students\u2019 sexes anymore\nhttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/02/conservatives-freak-teachers-wont-able-look-students-sexes-anymore/\nP-Robes comes out of retirement to say Putin is \u201ccompelled by god\u201d:\xa0 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/01/pat-robertson-putin-god-russia-ukraine/ and https://onlysky.media/ahall/us-christo-fascists-love-vladimir-putin/\n\nCPAC highlights: https://www.christianpost.com/news/desantis-tells-cpac-to-put-on-full-armor-of-god.html\n\nhttps://www.rawstory.com/candace-owens-2656801654/\nhttps://nypost.com/2022/02/26/cpac-2022-in-photos/