Ep. 401 - The Magdalene Laundries of Texas

Friendly Atheist Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Please support the show at https://www.patreon.com/friendlyatheistpodcast. Donors now get access to a new BONUS episode. Jessica and I sat down to talk about several stories from the past week involving religion and politics. — Please join our new Discord server! — This Christian “maternity ranch” in Texas meant to help new mothers is horrifying for so many reasons. (0:41) — “We have to have one religion,” says MAGA cultist Michael Flynn. (27:39) — Pastor Mark Burns, who’s running for Congress, is calling for all laws that contradict his interpretation of the Bible to be declared illegal. (29:49) — A Christian news editor is resigning over the rightward shift of his parent company. (34:44) — A conservative writer who thinks FFRF is a “hate group” seems to agree with everything they’re saying. (45:08) — A pastor who created a COVID outbreak says he was just doing “what God wanted.” (52:40) — Catholic bishop. Satanic erotica. Pig semen. (54:57) — The New Orleans Archdiocese is paying over $1 million to settle a case involving lies they told FEMA after Hurricane Katrina. (57:55) — One of the Republicans trying to win the party’s nomination for Ohio’s U.S. Senate seat is a guy who literally said of his opponent, “But he’s Jewish!” (1:02:53) — Two Christian groups are suing over the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate because it’s a “sin against God’s holy word.” (1:08:40) — The Supreme Court doesn’t seem to care about “religious freedom” when it involves a death row inmate. (1:10:45) — SPONSOR: Check out Paint Your Life and get 20% off by texting FRIENDLY to 64-000. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Hammett and Jessica and you're listening to the Family Atheist podcast if you like what you're listening to
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0:12.4	You now have access to a special bonus post show episode
0:17.4	Where we talk about things that have nothing to do with politics and religion and all that good stuff
0:22.2	Mm-hmm
0:23.0	And also if you are a
0:25.4	Patreon donor at the five dollar level you can get ad free episodes. Yes. Cool. Hi. Hi. Hi. How are you?
0:32.8	I'm mad. Okay, because of the first story. We're discussing. Uh-oh. Is the maternity room? Oh hell. Yeah
0:38.6	Okay, so I kept seeing this headline and the headline is from the Washington Post a maternity branch is born
0:45.2	And I saw it many places on the internet and I was like
0:49.1	Self-care means I'm not gonna read this and then haven't emailed me and
0:54.9	Demanded that I read it with no care of my own mental health. I what I'm saying is I'm very brave for the stupid show
1:02.9	Wow, so here's the backdrop for the story Texas as you know is basically banned all legal abortions
1:10.4	And so one of the questions that's looming is okay if these women mostly poor women mostly women of color
1:17.8	Can't get abortions and are forced to give birth against their will because they don't have the money or the resources to
1:23.9	Get out of Texas and have the abortions
1:26.9	What happens to them because presumably a lot of them have no ability to care for the child, which is one of the reasons
1:34.1	They may have wanted to have an abortion
1:37.0	And so one of the things
1:39.2	There was an article this week in the Washington Post by Stephanie McCrumman where she
1:44.6	Basically profiles a Christian woman who decided it is now it's now her life's mission
1:51.0	To open what she called a maternity ranch to house women
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