Episode 198 – The Standard Model of the Second Coming

Live recording of Episode 200 coming on May 20

DUSTING OFF THE DEGREE – The Standard Model of the Second Coming

NEWS

The SDA Church may be facing a ban on Russia
http://fox-news24.com/moscow-court-considers-a-ban-on-adventist-church-as-over-12-million-sign-petition/

Jakarta’s governor sentenced to two years for blasphemy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/39853280

Texas has a proposed bill to allow publicly funded adoption agencies to discriminate
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-proposes-law-that-would-allow-adoption-agencies-to-ban-jews-muslims-gays/

Tennessee and Alabama have passed inherently discriminatory bills
http://www.advocate.com/politics/2017/5/05/tennessee-alabama-write-discrimination-law

Chechen police are telling parents to kill their gay sons
http://www.gaytimes.co.uk/news/71116/chechnyas-police-telling-parents-kill-gay-sons-theyll/

Saudi Arabia is finally giving women a few more rights
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-male-guardianship-relax-women-work-study-gender-equality-a7721641.html

Scientologist psychiatric “facilities” in Tennessee have been closed and staff jailed for kidnapping and false imprisonment
http://globalnews.ca/news/3426629/scientology-facility-closed-tennessee/

Anti-vaxers have caused the largest measles outbreak in Minnesota in 30 years in the state’s Somali population
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/anti-vaccine-activists-spark-a-states-worst-measles-outbreak-in-decades/2017/05/04/a1fac952-2f39-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html

Who doesn’t love a good conspiracy theory? Texas Mayor
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sharia-law-conspiracy-theorist-gets-trump-administration-job

FFRF is suing Trump over his order to not enforce the Johnson amendment
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/wisconsin-based-atheist-group-sues-trump-church-order-47234358

Oh the Things We’ll do… Public school turns kids commie and trans
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kevin-swanson-the-goal-of-public-schools-is-to-turn-kids-into-transgender-communists/

Assistant principal placed on leave after arguing with abortion protesters outside his school
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2017/05/05/you-and-trump-can-go-to-hell-asst-principal-on-leave-after-argument-with-teen-abortion-protesters/

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