ScathingAtheist 168: Public Duty Edition

In this week’s episode, we fight bigotry with the power of song, Lucifer gets called the C word, and we learn that those first eight Surahs weren’t the bad ones.

We’d like to offer a special thanks to Anna Phyllis Smith and Morgan Clarke for lending us their musical and mixing expertise respectively this week. And if you can’t Go Take a Public $hit in Oxford, Alabama out of your head, you can get a copy on CD Baby here. All the proceeds will be donated to the Heartland Trans Wellness Group. If you’d like to learn more about them, you can find their website here. If you’d like to hear more from Anna Phyllis Smith, check out her website. If you’d like to hear more from Morgan Clarke, check him out on SoundCloud.

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HEADLINES: Editor of Bangledesh’s only LGTB magazine hacked to death http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/26/475717047/editor-of-bangladeshs-only-lgbt-magazine-is-hacked-to-death Yet another victim: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/04/30/another-day-another-bangladeshi-man-murdered-for-supposedly-insulting-islam/ I took picture of heaven guy says someone stole his phone http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/pastor-says-he-took-pictures-of-heaven-but-lost-them-when-hi Congress spends a metric fuckton of money on prayers http://www.patheos.com/blogs/freethoughtnow/wasteful-spending-congress-pays-clergy-66000hour-to-pray/ Alabama bans all trans people from using ALL public bathrooms http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/04/27/pee-home-alabama-city-bans-trans-people-using-public-bathrooms/ Roy Moore blames athiests, trannys, and gays for the fact that nobody thinks he should be a judge anymore: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/watch-alabamas-chief-justice-blames-legal-troubles-on-a-transvestite-in-crazy-anti-gay-rant/ Swanson: Gays love each other the way cannibals love their victims: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kevin-swanson-gays-love-each-other-just-cannibals-love-their-victims THIS WEEK IN MISOGYNY: Kirk Cameron gives marriage advice http://m.christianpost.com/news/kirk-cameron-god-marriage-wives-submission-husbands-161142/?m=1 Army Sexual Harassment teacher says you can overcome rape with Jesus: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/05/01/army-sexual-harassment-speaker-tells-crowd-they-can-only-overcome-the-horrors-of-rape-with-jesus/ Oklahoma parses which orifices count as rape: http://oklahomawatch.org/2016/04/23/appeals-court-sodomy-law-doesnt-apply-to-cases-with-unconscious-victims/