373: Fight for Your Right to Petri Edition

In this week’s episode, the missionary position gets a LOT less boring, we learn that blood plasma is a sacred bond between one man and one woman, and we’ve now spent one sixteenth as long in lockdown as Cardinal Pell ever will. --- To make a per episode donation at Patreon.com, click here: http://www.patreon.com/ScathingAtheist To buy our book, click there: http://www.amazon.com/Diatribes-Godless-Misanthrope-Scathing-Presents-ebook/dp/B00J53FZFI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396141562&sr=8-1 To check out our sister show, The Skepticrat, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-skepticrat To check out our sister show’s hot friend, God Awful Movies, click here: https://audioboom.com/channel/god-awful-movies To check out out half-sister show, Citation Needed, click here: http://citationpod.com/ To hear more from our intrepid audio engineer Morgan Clarke, click here: https://www.morganclarkemusic.com/ --- Appearances: Check out Noah on Inkredulous here: http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2020/04/inkredulous-episode-047/ --- Headlines: Volunteers for Franklin Graham’s NYC COVID-19 tent hospital must be anti-LGBTQ: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/03/31/volunteers-for-franklin-grahams-nyc-covid-19-tent-hospital-must-be-anti-lgbtq/ Doctors need COVID-19 blood antibodies but still have to turn away gay donors: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/04/02/doctors-need-covid-19-blood-antibodies-but-still-have-to-turn-away-gay-donors/ IIndia’s infection made way worse by Muslim missionaries: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/04/04/in-india-some-suspect-that-muslim-missionaries-spread-covid-19-intentionally/ And A Third of All COVID-19 Cases in one CA County Can Be Traced Back to Churches  https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/04/03/a-third-of-all-covid-19-cases-in-one-ca-county-can-be-traced-back-to-churches/ Cardinal Pell conviction overturned: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/06/australia/australia-cardinal-pell-high-court-hnk-intl/index.html Religious people filing lawsuits that stay-at-home orders are anti-Christian persecution: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/04/03/colorado-man-sues-state-for-forcing-his-church-to-close-during-the-pandemic/ https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/03/31/texas-pastors-sue-judge-over-stay-at-home-order-that-closed-their-churches/ Coronavirus relief plan to shuffle enormous amounts of tax money to churches: https://www.atheists.org/2020/04/churches-preference-small-business-aid-package/?fbclid=IwAR3zPOBjHK2Zp5PRZgk_3lPkYvNl8WxMonl3le3k5R27NnCzTweawViUC8I and https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/06/828462517/another-break-from-the-past-government-will-help-churches-pay-pastor-salaries?fbclid=IwAR1kb4EgjlapjOrCHeYo3d7mLIVTO-w9nMBtA0Pn8F7aSXKtEw_EsLnIv5Y Fresh from White House, MyPillow guy retweets post connecting company to QAnon: https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/fresh-from-white-house-mypillow-guy-retweets-post-connecting-company-to-qanon/ Pastor Checks-His-Phone Warns Atheists to Stop Dragging People to Hell: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/04/02/pastor-checks-his-phone-warns-atheists-stop-dragging-people-to-hell/ Tony Spell, Louisiana’s COVID-19-Defying Pastor, Is Charged With Six Misdemeanors: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/04/01/tony-spell-louisianas-covid-19-defying-pastor-is-charged-with-six-misdemeanors/ And he hired Roy Moore: https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/04/02/tony-spell-hires-al-judge-roy-moore-to-defend-him-holds-another-church-service/