WEDNESDAY WITH WIT

Program Date: 04 Feb. 2015

Segment Summary:  1st Hour - “This Way Out” the international gay and lesbian radio magazine. (30 min.)

U.S. Republicans board a ship of fools with harbingers of hate, but true love speaks up in "Gay Conversations With God"; Mormons swap non-discrimination for religious exemption, Idaho lawmakers bounce a bias ban for the ninth year, an "outed" Chinese worker sues for wrongful termination, Nigerian birthday party guests are busted for "planning a gay wedding", but an Egyptian appeals court formally clears "debauched" gay bathhouse arrestees, and more LGBT news from around the world.

Then Amanda Marcotte’s outstanding “RH Reality Cast” from the vital news web site RH Reality Check. (30 min. ca.)

Segment Summary #365: On this episode of Reality Cast, Andrea Grimes discusses her new column for RH Reality Check. In another segment, host Amanda Marcotte looks at reactions to House Republicans yanking a bill banning abortions at 20 weeks at the last minute.

2nd Hour: Alex Smith's Radio Ecoshock latest: Dr. James White, Arctic specialist at U of Colorado, says abrupt climate shifts happened in the past, happen now, and will come again. Huge changes possible. Then UK psychotherapist Ro Randall on how to talk to a denier. Clip of Robert Kennedy Jr. on coal.