βGodβs reach does not stop at the schoolhouse gates.β β Gaetz
What he meant to say is βwhite Christian nationalismβs reach does not stop at the schoolhouse gates.β
Nor does it stop at the doctorβs exam room door, or a personβs front door, or anyoneβs mind. We are all going to be facing white Christian nationalist attacks in all aspects of our lives, we already have been seeing the trickles of the flood since Roe at least. We are coming to the dam breaking.
Since it is already completely legal to pray in school, there are only two functions this law would serve- if it had a snowball's chance in Florida of passing:
1: To allow students with batshit beliefs to disrupt science, history, and any other class or lesson they object to with total impunity.
2: To allow conservative students and staff to use their beliefs as a cudgel to bully LGBTQ and other minority students and staff back into the closet or out of a job- again, with total impunity.
Matt Gaetz? Is this the accused pedophile Matt Gaetz? The one who used Venmo to pay for sex with underage girls? That Matt Gaetz? Just want to make sure weβre talking about the same person here.
Not even our monumentally corrupt Supreme Court is going to sign off on this idiocy. This is a solution in search of a problem. School prayer doesn't accomplish a damned thing, and never did. It is NEVER the job of the public schools, paid for with everyone's tax dollars, to backstop anyone's religion. This is all just gas lighting on Gaetz's part. He can't be stupid enough to think this will pass, but he can go back to the evangelicals in his district and claim he tried. Few things disgust me more than politicians on a moral crusade.
My third grade teacher told us that God was so busy listening to prayers from around the world, that we should pray to the Holy Mother. If Mary thought our prayer was important enough, she would pass it on to God.
My step-son's eighth grade teacher had a statue of Shiva, and claimed to worship "the Destroyer".
I'm so glad he and I grew up in school systems (Michigan and California) that never allowed teacher led prayers.
And we can't forget the old chestnut: as long as there are algebra tests, there will be prayer in school!
OT: An opossum got into my bedroom last night. It took 6 calls to find someone willing to come remove the animal before this morning. $300 including the after hours fee.
Then I woke up this morning to find the thermostat dark and the house warm. After over an hour and a second call, finally got the AC company to call me back. They'll be here 'sometime' today. Did I mention it's expected to get to 105F today?
"God's reach does not stop at the schoolhouse gates."
Hey, Matty: Your imaginary deity's reach apparently stops outside the doors of his own houses of worship while there's a mass shooting going on inside, the shooters being his own followers.
"ππ’π πππ’ππ‘ππ¦βπ πππ’πππ‘πππ ππππππ¦ πππππππ π π‘π’ππππ‘π πππ ππππ’ππ‘π¦ ππππ ππππ¦πππ π€βπππ ππππππ π ππ¦ ππππππ‘πππ πππππππππ‘π πΏπΊπ΅π πππ πππ‘π-πβππ‘π ππππππππππ,β
David Duke, eat your heart out. The right now has Matt "The little supremacist that could" Gaetz. I think I Klan, I think I Klan...
βGodβs reach does not stop at the schoolhouse gates.β β Gaetz
What he meant to say is βwhite Christian nationalismβs reach does not stop at the schoolhouse gates.β
Nor does it stop at the doctorβs exam room door, or a personβs front door, or anyoneβs mind. We are all going to be facing white Christian nationalist attacks in all aspects of our lives, we already have been seeing the trickles of the flood since Roe at least. We are coming to the dam breaking.
Or we can repair the dam now.
Won't somebody think of the children?
Not like that though Gaetz.
Since it is already completely legal to pray in school, there are only two functions this law would serve- if it had a snowball's chance in Florida of passing:
1: To allow students with batshit beliefs to disrupt science, history, and any other class or lesson they object to with total impunity.
2: To allow conservative students and staff to use their beliefs as a cudgel to bully LGBTQ and other minority students and staff back into the closet or out of a job- again, with total impunity.
Matt Gaetz? Is this the accused pedophile Matt Gaetz? The one who used Venmo to pay for sex with underage girls? That Matt Gaetz? Just want to make sure weβre talking about the same person here.
I keep being told that I'm shrill and hyperbolic about this nation's match towards fascism...
Then there's Matt and I'm at least comforted that I'm not delusional.
If Christianity is so great, there would be no need to enforce it on nonbelievers. Nonbelievers would embrace it willingly, right?
That it is not gladly adopted points many fingers at all the weaknesses of the Cult of the Cross.
Not even our monumentally corrupt Supreme Court is going to sign off on this idiocy. This is a solution in search of a problem. School prayer doesn't accomplish a damned thing, and never did. It is NEVER the job of the public schools, paid for with everyone's tax dollars, to backstop anyone's religion. This is all just gas lighting on Gaetz's part. He can't be stupid enough to think this will pass, but he can go back to the evangelicals in his district and claim he tried. Few things disgust me more than politicians on a moral crusade.
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Ah another day that ends in 'y'.
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends
So, oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
*Wobble to the nearest window*
Still no civil war or any major catastrophe in my country. Must be all the forced prayers in public schools.
So, if someone wants to start praying out loud during a test and disrupts things for everyone else that's ok???
Why is this asshat not in prison?
My third grade teacher told us that God was so busy listening to prayers from around the world, that we should pray to the Holy Mother. If Mary thought our prayer was important enough, she would pass it on to God.
My step-son's eighth grade teacher had a statue of Shiva, and claimed to worship "the Destroyer".
I'm so glad he and I grew up in school systems (Michigan and California) that never allowed teacher led prayers.
And we can't forget the old chestnut: as long as there are algebra tests, there will be prayer in school!
OT: An opossum got into my bedroom last night. It took 6 calls to find someone willing to come remove the animal before this morning. $300 including the after hours fee.
Then I woke up this morning to find the thermostat dark and the house warm. After over an hour and a second call, finally got the AC company to call me back. They'll be here 'sometime' today. Did I mention it's expected to get to 105F today?
"God's reach does not stop at the schoolhouse gates."
Hey, Matty: Your imaginary deity's reach apparently stops outside the doors of his own houses of worship while there's a mass shooting going on inside, the shooters being his own followers.