This is why local elections are important. These assholes are trying to make the public schools extensions of their church, and force every child to conform to their narrow ideology of who those children are.
Conservative Christians can never stop trying to mark their territory in the public schools, paid for with everyone's tax dollars. It's actually an open admission as to just how weak their arguments are that they are so driven to get to children before they have reached the age of reason. When people become convinced they're operating under divine sanction, they can make an excuse for absolutely anything.
Damn. And this is California, not Alabama or Georgia or anywhere in the Deep South (though I do acknowledge pockets of right-wing stupidity in the Golden State). I'm pleased to know that the Freedom From Religion Foundation is alert to this mess and is doubtless monitoring and filing actions as appropriate. Sadly, we're talking about November of 2024 before the miscreants can be ejected from office and someone with a touch of sanity can take over the reins.
“So then I just walk in front of the pulpit, bless the candidate and say how great he or she is and that I’m voting for them, and then go back behind the pulpit,”
Step 1. Create a strawregulation.
Step 2. Create a loophole to get around strawregulation.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: My LCMS minister father adored the separation of church and state and would have strongly objected to these idiots. He might very well have shown up in his clerical collar at a school board meeting to tell them they were wrong. I miss Dad. He would have turned 100 a few weeks ago.
I can only hope that these kids will rebel one day and join the ranks of agnostics and atheists. My upbringing included 8 years of Catholic school indoctrination and plenty of rosaries at home. My siblings as well. Most of us are now atheist, agnostic, or no religious preference. One of the six of us is a right wing evangelical Catholic - sadly. But those are pretty good odds.
Tell ya what: Let's take over that megachurch of theirs and teach the scientific fact of evolution. Or teach about the true age of the universe (13.8 billion years as opposed to 6000 - 10,000 years. Shit, even the Hindus are closer than the cristers. Hindus guessed it to be 4,320,000,000 years).
Wonder if that would be ok with Calvary Chapel Chino Hills? I'm guessing not.
He's probably the most visible and influential of the fundamentalists in Calvary Chapel who think that even trying to adopt a civil facade (,while maintaining the same toxic fundamentalism , mind you) is akin to pledging allegience to Satan.
Not the 33 year sentence we and the Justice Dept. wanted, but Enrique Tarrio, former head asshole of the Proud Boys, got 22 years for his role in the insurrection of Jan. 6. He fucked around, he found out.
California is currently ranked 20th Overall in Education. Thanks to these religion-addled lamebrains, expect those numbers to go south faster than a duck in winter.
It would be great if some enterprising prosecutor would go after churches like this one for conspiracy/racketeering. There are a number of grounds for doing it, with conspiracy to rig elections springing immediately to mind. They're pretty obviously guilty of it. But of course "religious liberty" would get in the way. As characters in Loony Tunes used to face the audience and say, "I can dream, can't i?"
This is why local elections are important. These assholes are trying to make the public schools extensions of their church, and force every child to conform to their narrow ideology of who those children are.
Everything religion touches, it destroys. This is especially true of education. Superstition despises knowledge with a passion.
Conservative Christians can never stop trying to mark their territory in the public schools, paid for with everyone's tax dollars. It's actually an open admission as to just how weak their arguments are that they are so driven to get to children before they have reached the age of reason. When people become convinced they're operating under divine sanction, they can make an excuse for absolutely anything.
Damn. And this is California, not Alabama or Georgia or anywhere in the Deep South (though I do acknowledge pockets of right-wing stupidity in the Golden State). I'm pleased to know that the Freedom From Religion Foundation is alert to this mess and is doubtless monitoring and filing actions as appropriate. Sadly, we're talking about November of 2024 before the miscreants can be ejected from office and someone with a touch of sanity can take over the reins.
Disturbing as hell...
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Breaking News Headline: "Judges reject Alabama's congressional lines, will draw new districts to increase Black voting power"
GOOD!
“So then I just walk in front of the pulpit, bless the candidate and say how great he or she is and that I’m voting for them, and then go back behind the pulpit,”
Step 1. Create a strawregulation.
Step 2. Create a loophole to get around strawregulation.
Step 3. Repeat as necessary.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: My LCMS minister father adored the separation of church and state and would have strongly objected to these idiots. He might very well have shown up in his clerical collar at a school board meeting to tell them they were wrong. I miss Dad. He would have turned 100 a few weeks ago.
tots and pears
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/05/1197202616/enrique-tarrio-proud-boys-jan-6-sentence
I can only hope that these kids will rebel one day and join the ranks of agnostics and atheists. My upbringing included 8 years of Catholic school indoctrination and plenty of rosaries at home. My siblings as well. Most of us are now atheist, agnostic, or no religious preference. One of the six of us is a right wing evangelical Catholic - sadly. But those are pretty good odds.
Tell ya what: Let's take over that megachurch of theirs and teach the scientific fact of evolution. Or teach about the true age of the universe (13.8 billion years as opposed to 6000 - 10,000 years. Shit, even the Hindus are closer than the cristers. Hindus guessed it to be 4,320,000,000 years).
Wonder if that would be ok with Calvary Chapel Chino Hills? I'm guessing not.
Trolly troll Greg Sprung has been banhammered again. Many thanks, Hemant.
He has two adult daughters. I wonder how many times they set foot in a public school.
Of course it's Hibbs.
He was the jackass who fought COVID restrictions.
He's probably the most visible and influential of the fundamentalists in Calvary Chapel who think that even trying to adopt a civil facade (,while maintaining the same toxic fundamentalism , mind you) is akin to pledging allegience to Satan.
The guy is a major asshole.
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Not the 33 year sentence we and the Justice Dept. wanted, but Enrique Tarrio, former head asshole of the Proud Boys, got 22 years for his role in the insurrection of Jan. 6. He fucked around, he found out.
California is currently ranked 20th Overall in Education. Thanks to these religion-addled lamebrains, expect those numbers to go south faster than a duck in winter.
It would be great if some enterprising prosecutor would go after churches like this one for conspiracy/racketeering. There are a number of grounds for doing it, with conspiracy to rig elections springing immediately to mind. They're pretty obviously guilty of it. But of course "religious liberty" would get in the way. As characters in Loony Tunes used to face the audience and say, "I can dream, can't i?"