This week: we give a final reminder about the picnic for non-believers on July 16th, we talk about Uri Geller, we discuss motives behind recent LGBTQA+ rights attacks, and we cover a petition from American Atheists’ to protect the free speech rights of non-believers. The FFRF update includes the impeached ex-President’s remarks about atheists. After a rant about a pastor’s curious position on marital sex without consent, you can listen to a special conversation among four of our Filthy Monkey Brains. Don’t miss their humorous discussion on a cringeworthy Supreme Court decision about religious exemptions at work, the implications of the Defense Bill Amendment, and a misguided request about CRT.
Thanks to Ketsa, SuRRism, Redproductions, AlexGrohl, Lexin_Music, Tommy Mutiu, and lemonmusicstudio for the music tracks.
Here are the links we provide for more information about the episode:
https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/why-is-the-new-york-times-glorifying
https://www.atheists.org/2023/07/lindke-v-freed-amicus-brief/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2lakd2WUZg&feature=share
https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-marital-rape-states-ohio-minnesota.html
https://nypost.com/2023/03/05/ri-mom-says-teachers-union-treated-her-like-enemy-of-the-state/
https://friendlyatheist.substack.com/p/gop-congressman-targets-churchstate
Monica also would like to recommend the following books about Black History:
The Warmth of Other Suns -The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson.
The Color of Law – A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein.
And the following book wasn’t referenced by name but it’s interesting to understand Rosa Parks’ work as a field officer for the NAACP before the Civil Rights movement went national:
At the Dark End of the Street (Black Women, Hope & Resistance – A New History of the Civil Rights Movement – From Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power), by Danielle L. McGuire
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