On today’s BradCast, you won’t hear Brad or Desi — because you’ll be very busy hearing me. I’m the host of In Deep with Angie Coiro.
You may have been fooled for a second — nah, you’re too smart — but casual observers might mistake Jeff Sessions’ announcement of a new DOJ “Religious Liberty Task Force” 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’s about bakers afraid of serving LGBTQ customers, or taxpayers having to support icky women – that sort of thing. ANNIE LAURIE GAYLOR is co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. She puts this latest news in the wider context of Trump’s pro-Christian pandering. While we’re at it, we look at how bad for basic civil rights Brett Kavanaugh would be on the Supreme Court.
More news headlines, then DAVE JOHNSON of Seeing The Forest ponders how the concepts of markets, capitalism, and socialism get contorted by propaganda. Even respectable journalists fall victim…
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