Blasphemy In The Bluegrass

Apologies to our listeners: There was a mixup with the audio files in the last upload, and we ended up uploading an old episode. Now the audio has been updated with the correct podcast for this week.

List of historic documents for SB 83: https://local12.com/news/local/kentucky-bill-would-require-24-historical-texts-be-taught-as-part-of-history-courses-sb-138

Help for Ukraine: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1082992947/ukraine-support-help

American Atheists Convention: https://convention.atheists.org/

Our intro and outro music is Crescents by Ketsa, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Crescents

Topics:

Kentucky House Bill HB43, which proposes exceptions for "houses of worship" from being prevented from having mass gatherings by the government due to a emergency (such as for a pandemic) and to treat them as an "essential service." https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb43.html

Biden's pick for Supreme Court Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Students walk out of Huntington High School in West Virginia in protest of a Christian revival service that they were required to attend. https://www.npr.org/2022/02/09/1079712717/religion-public-school-protest

Contact information for Michael Stark and all of the American Atheists Kentucky Assistant State Directors can be found at https://www.atheists.org/group/kentucky/

Our intro and outro music is Crescents by Ketsa, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Crescents

Topics:

Cults, religious and political

Kentucky Senator Max Wise has sponsored a bill to probit critical race theory in schools. https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-general-assembly/2022/02/04/anti-critical-race-theory-fervor-triggers-new-kentucky-legislation/6662013001/

Black Folks in American History: Mary Bowser, freed slave who became a spy for the Union within the Confererate White House. https://www.history.com/news/female-spies-civil-war-mary-bowser-elizabeth-van-lew

Our intro and outro music is Crescents by Ketsa, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Crescents

American Atheist statement on Breyer: https://www.atheists.org/2022/01/american-atheists-justice-breyer-retirement/ Fairness Rally Lobby Day: https://facebook.com/events/s/ky-fairness-rally-lobby-day/415494520365513/ UK Students Help Revitalize Historical African-American Community http://uknow.uky.edu/student-news/uk-students-help-revitalize-historical-community Our intro and outro music is Crescents by Ketsa, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Crescents

Today's Topics

Lebanon Schools response to After School Satan Club

Newt Gingrich floats idea of jailtime for January 6 Committee members

Sixth mass extinction in progress

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Our intro and outro music is Crescents by Ketsa, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Crescents

Topics:

Book banning and "cancel culture"

Sexual abuse in the churches (other than the Catholic church)

New After School Satan Club in Illinois

——– Our intro and outro music is Crescents by Ketsa, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Crescents

"Meet a Podcaster" episode: John Kiel interviews Michael Stark.

——– Our intro and outro music is Crescents by Ketsa, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Crescents

Show notes:

Alberta Jones Documentary: https://www.leoweekly.com/2021/08/documentary-being-made-about-alberta-jones-louisville-attorney-and-activist-that-was-murdered-in-1965/

Team Kentucky Western Kentucky Tornado Relief Fund: https://secure.kentucky.gov/formservices/Finance/WKYRelief

LBGTQ+ Equality at the Fairness Campaign: https://www.fairness.org/

Kentucky 2022 Legislative Session Pre-filed Bills: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22rs/prefiled/prefiled.html

Community of Reason - https://www.meetup.com/CommunityOfReason/ - https://www.communityofreason.org/Home

Louisville Atheists & Freethinkers - https://www.meetup.com/louisvilleatheists/

Support this podcast at: https://kysecularsociety.org/

——– Our intro and outro music is Crescents by Ketsa, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Crescents

The "lizard sex lady"

The rise of astrology

How trolling became the new governing for Trumpist Republicans like Lauren Boebert https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/politics/lauren-boebert-tom-massie-christmas-card/index.html

Ms. Lauren Boebert and her Christmas photo https://news.yahoo.com/lauren-boebert-poses-her-children-150023917.html

End Religious Exemption in Federal Contractors - Take Action: https://atheists.quorum.us/campaign/36644/ Christmas Nice & Naughty List: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/11/26/christian-group-reposts-list-of-naughty-supposedly-anti-christmas-retailers/ Concerns about CRT could ease changes to school councils: https://www.bgdailynews.com/news/concerns-about-crt-could-ease-changes-to-school-councils/article_ba763ea6-7caf-557d-92f0-17c0cba5ac0d.html Corporate Punishment in Kentucky: https://www.wlky.com/article/new-regulation-could-change-way-corporal-punishment-is-used-in-kentucky-schools/38347203 ——– Our intro and outro music is Crescents by Ketsa, https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Crescents