Showing posts with label adultery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adultery. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The Adult(ery) Episode (Data Over Dogma podcast)

Ooooh... this week's show is keeping it SPICY!

First we're going to tackle what might at first feel like one of the least controversial of the Ten Commandments. But if you've listened to this show, you know that's almost never the case. So when the Bible says "thou shalt not commit adultery," what is it really getting at?

Then we dive into the book of Hosea, which comes out swinging, and only gets weirder. What does it mean that God tells Hosea to take a wife of prostitution? And why would God want that? Is there really a context in which that makes sense?
Interview: 

Sunday, December 31, 2017

GOP Candidate for TX Gov: “I’d Gladly Execute” Gay People (Like the Bible Says) – Friendly Atheist

The race to replace Greg Abbott as Governor of Texas already has a number of candidates who plan to run in the primaries. While most are Democrats, Abbott himself will face a Republican primary challenger in Larry SECEDE Kilgore. (His middle name is literally “SECEDE.”) Four years ago, Kilgore took 1.4% of the primary votes compared to Abbott’s 91.5%, so you can call this an uphill climb, but Kilgore also takes the party’s anti-LGBTQ agenda to its logical extremes. ....
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/12/24/gop-candidate-for-tx-gov-id-gladly-execute-gay-people-like-the-bible-says/


Thursday, September 15, 2016

Should adultery be a crime? It’s a felony in Idaho. - CSMonitor.com

When allegations erupted this summer that two Idaho lawmakers were caught in an extramarital affair, many supporters were quick to say their actions were a mistake, not a crime. However, in Idaho, adultery has been considered a felony since 1972. The crime is rarely prosecuted, but it remains on the books as a relic of America's long history of regulating sexual activity inside marriage....
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2016/0905/Should-adultery-be-a-crime-It-s-a-felony-in-Idaho


Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Before Teaming With Trump, Pence Argued That Adultery Should Be A Crime

Before his career as an elected official, Gov. Mike Pence (R-IN) hosted both a radio and television show in the 1990s, with the name, “The Mike Pence Show.” While his commentaries from that time in defense of cigarettes and in opposition to the feminist message in Disney’s Mulan have made news, one less noticed piece suggested that adultery should be a crime in the United States. It appeared on the website for his television show on WNDY, retrieved through the Internet Archive WayBack Machine.

In May of 1997, Pence railed against the news that U.S. Air Force Lt. Kelly Flynn had received a general dischrage despite having been accused of two adulterous affairs. While Pence said he was glad she had received compassion, he took aim at society for making extramarital affairs acceptable. “Did anyone else notice the incredulous looks on the faces of Lt. Flynn’s most ardent defenders anytime the term ‘adultery’ was mentioned? Many of her defenders were less concerned, it seemed, about the facts of the case than about the fact that somewhere in this society adultery is still a crime.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/18/3799426/mike-pence-criminalize-adultery/









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