Blasphemy In The Bluegrass

Welcome 2021! (Should we skip to 2022 already?) Trump supporters riot, Kentucky preachers and White Supremists attend, 5 die.

This week's topics:

PRRI study reveals that evangelicals who are hesitant to get vaccinated say that they could be persuaded by their religious leaders.

Ministers who encourage their flock to get vaccinated, ministers who demonize vaccination, and ministers who are afraid to tell their flock to get vaccinated.

Religious Identities and the Race Against the Virus: (Wave 2: June 2021), https://www.prri.org/research/religious-vaccines-covid-vaccination/

Vaccine skepticism runs deep among white evangelicals in US, https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/vaccine-skepticism-runs-deep-white-evangelicals-us-76882757

Death Cult Preacher Hands Out "Exemption Letters" to Anti-Vaxxer Christians, https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/08/20/death-cult-preacher-hands-out-exemption-letters-to-anti-vaxxer-christians/

White Evangelical Pastors Hesitant to Preach Vaccines, https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/may/white-evangelical-pastors-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-preach-ch.html

White Evangelical Churches and the Crisis of Vaccine Hesitancy, https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-08-10/white-evangelical-churches-and-the-crisis-of-vaccine-hesitancy

Pastor reveals the reasons behind COVID vaccine hesitancy in the evangelical community, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pastor-reveals-the-reasons-behind-covid-vaccine-hesitancy-in-the-evangelical-community

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

Topics:

Two evangelical seminaries sue to block vaccine mandates, citing religious freedom https://religionnews.com/2021/11/05/two-prominent-evangelical-seminaries-sue-to-block-vaccine-mandates-southern-baptist-seminary-asbury/

Kentucky college president fired after sexual assault report https://apnews.com/article/religion-education-kentucky-sexual-abuse-by-clergy-sexual-assault-309c163cff9f10e40ef840cb5334a45b

GOP Senator Rand Paul's religious litmus test for public service should alarm us all https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/2021/11/02/kentucky-rand-paul-violates-us-principle-religious-freedom/6238841001/

We'll be discussing KY House Bill 149 and the right to assisted suicide for the terminally ill and we'll talk about Greg Locke, pastor at Global Vision Bible Church and his rant on witches in his congregation. We'll briefly discuss the Missouri bill being debated regarding ectopic pregnancies.

On this episode, Regina and Monica discuss the recent mass shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, the representatives ousted and re-instated in the Tennessee legislature, the Missouri republican advocating 12-year-old marriage and Mifepristone, the abortion pill marked for disapproval along with Big Pharma's response.