On this week’s episode: Beating kids in Oklahoma is all about inclusion ... Devout Catholics back that ash up to kick off Lent ... And Cecil helps us get to know someone who never gets to know.
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Headlines:
First openly gay Imam murdered in Africa:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05l33j7rq7o
Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a DC house that's the center of a pastor’s secretive influence campaign:
https://www.propublica.org/article/mike-johnson-evangelical-pastor-steve-berger-roommates
JD Vance invokes medieval Catholic concept called "ordo amoris" to justify xenophobia:
https://apnews.com/article/jd-vance-catholic-theology-migration-e868af574fb2e742c6ed3d756c569769
https://apnews.com/article/pope-trump-migration-09a89091f8e7dc3270099f0947d04e90
https://apnews.com/article/vice-president-jd-vance-pope-francis-immigration-4f05693320524f9976d3b9ebe31b3f97
Upcoming book by shitty atheists weaponize the war on science against trans people:
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/prominent-atheists-are-weaponizing
Christian lawmaker still wants teachers to be able to hit students with disabilities:
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-lawmaker-still-wants-teachers
Churches offering drive thru ashes for Ash Wednesday:
https://www.christianpost.com/news/churches-offering-drive-thru-ashes-for-ash-wednesday.html
