{"id":12658,"date":"2018-07-30T18:38:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T01:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12658"},"modified":"2018-07-30T19:54:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T02:54:01","slug":"religious-freedoms-ltd-%e2%80%98bradcast%e2%80%99-7302018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12658","title":{"rendered":"Religious Freedoms, Ltd.; &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 7\/30\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_logo_mixer.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, you won&#8217;t hear Brad or Desi &#8212; because you&#8217;ll be very busy hearing me. I&#8217;m the host of <i><a href=\"\u009dhttp:\/\/InDeepRadio.com\"\u009d> In Deep with Angie Coiro<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may have been fooled for a second &#8212; nah, you&#8217;re too smart &#8212; but casual observers might mistake Jeff Sessions&#8217; announcement of a new DOJ &#8220;Religious Liberty Task Force&#8221; as an effort to address genuine hate crimes, including attacks on Muslim Americans, Jewish Americans, and Sikh Americans. But of course not. He made it clear it&#8217;s about bakers afraid of serving LGBTQ customers, or taxpayers having to support icky women &#8220;\u201c that sort of thing. <b>ANNIE LAURIE GAYLOR<\/b> is co-president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ffrf.org\"><i>Freedom From Religion Foundation<\/i><\/a>. She puts this latest news in the wider context of Trump&#8217;s pro-Christian pandering. While we&#8217;re at it, we look at how bad for basic civil rights Brett Kavanaugh would be on the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>More news headlines, then <b>DAVE JOHNSON<\/b> of <a href=\"\u009dhttp:\/\/seeingtheforest.com\/\"\u009d>Seeing The Forest<\/a> ponders how the concepts of markets, capitalism, and socialism get contorted by propaganda. Even respectable journalists fall victim&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_AngieCoiro_AnnieLaurieGaylor_DaveJohnson_073018.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below&#8230; <\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_AngieCoiro_AnnieLaurieGaylor_DaveJohnson_073018.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On today&#8217;s BradCast, you won&#8217;t hear Brad or Desi &#8212; because you&#8217;ll be very busy hearing me. I&#8217;m the host of In Deep with Angie Coiro. You may have been fooled for a second &#8212; nah, you&#8217;re too smart &#8212; but casual observers might mistake Jeff Sessions&#8217; announcement of a new DOJ &#8220;Religious Liberty Task [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1190,675,1194,543,223,479,390,594,969,200,363,14,130,309,197,1112,613,176,188,853,1026,276,724,86,712,300,126,925,766,127,313,991,53],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","category-bradcast","category-brett-kavanaugh","category-climate-change","category-dept-of-justice","category-donald-trump","category-economy","category-election-2016","category-election-2020","category-environment","category-fcc","category-fox-news","category-freedom-of-the-press","category-gay-marriage","category-in-memoriam","category-infrastructure","category-irs","category-journalist-intimidation","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-mike-pence","category-nazis","category-npr","category-oceans","category-raw-story","category-religion","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-steve-mnuchin","category-the-hill","category-the-constitution","category-us-supreme-court","category-vietnam","category-washington-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12658"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}