Summerville High School’s head football coach John McKissick leads the team in a prayer in Summerville, South Carolina.Randall Hill/Reuters
On April 25, the Supreme Court will hear Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, a case that was carefully engineered to return prayer to public schools. Kennedy marks an effort to overturn nearly 60 years of precedent protecting schoolchildren from state-sponsored religion by flipping the First Amendment on its head. The case erases the rights of children who wish to avoid religious coercion at school, fixating instead on the right of school officials to practice their religion during the course of their formal duties. It is the culmination of a decadeslong battle to reframe government neutrality toward religion as unconstitutional discrimination against people of faith. And it is chillingly likely to succeed.
It would be a mistake, however, to view Kennedy as a mere doctrinal shift in constitutional law, as radical as that doctrinal shift would be. This case is also the product of the Republican political campaign aimed at restoring public schools’ authority to indoctrinate students with Christianity. The campaign is on the brink of success in the courts because proponents of school prayer have perfected a tactic that reverses the victim and offender.
Today, school officials who coerce students into prayer go on the offensive, claiming that any attempt to halt their efforts at religious coercion is actually persecution of their religious beliefs. Supervisors, lawmakers, and judges who attempt to shield children from being indoctrinated are recast as anti-Christian bigots.
If there were any doubt about this inversion of the First Amendment, the House of Representatives recently decided to dispel it. Late last month, the House was considering a bill to name a federal courthouse in Florida after Joseph W. Hatchett, the first Black man to serve on that state’s Supreme Court. The bipartisan bill was sponsored by Florida’s two Republican senators and backed unanimously by its 27 House members—until, suddenly, it wasn’t.
With little notice and nothing more than a 23-year-old news clipping, a right-wing, first-term congressman mounted an 11th-hour effort on the House floor to persuade his colleagues that Judge Hatchett, a trailblazing judge who broke barriers as the first Black State Supreme Court justice south of the Mason-Dixon line, was undeserving of being honored.
The 23-year-old news clipping? It was a brief account of a decision Hatchett had written in 1999 as a judge on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. His opinion struck down a policy allowing student-approved prayers at public school graduation ceremonies in Florida as a violation of the First Amendment’s establishment clause. Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia, disgusted by this outcome, circulated the article to every Republican member of the House ostensibly under the theory that they should be aware of Hatchett’s alleged anti-religious animus before honoring his memory with a courthouse.
In reality, the pioneering Hatchett—an army veteran who faced racial segregation when he took the bar in 1959—ruled in that fashion because he was obligated to. Ample Supreme Court precedent, most notably the 1992 decision Lee v. Weisman, barred sectarian prayer in public schools. In 2000, SCOTUS would also vindicate Hatchett in Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, a 6–3 decision holding that a school district policy allowing even student-led prayer at football games violated the constitutional separation of church and state.
This vindication didn’t matter. To Clyde and many of his Republican colleagues, applying precedent that limited school prayer was an unforgivable sin that marred an entire legacy. So unforgivable, in fact, that it disqualifies Hatchett from respect and commemoration as a civil rights hero who broke down racial barriers at every turn in his long career, desegregating two different courts in the Deep South.
How did we get here? To start, we have to turn back to Kennedy, a case that clarifies, with depressing topicality, the vilification of Judge Hatchett. Joe Kennedy was a football coach in Washington state who led explicitly religious prayer circles with students at the 50-yard line after games. When the school district discovered this conduct in 2015, it repeatedly sought to accommodate his beliefs, asking him to pray in a less public location to avoid conveying the school’s endorsement of his beliefs. Kennedy refused, instead hiring lawyers at the far-right First Liberty Institute to threaten the school with a lawsuit.
He and his lawyers then launched a media blitz, falsely claiming that he had been persecuted for quiet, private prayer. School district officials were inundated with hateful threats from the public. His postgame prayer circles then became a spectacle, with media and spectators rushing onto the field to watch or join. At one game, students racing from the stands tripped over cables and knocked over members of the school band; parents later complained about the “stampede” threatening their children’s safety. In effect, Kennedy had hijacked the school’s football games to pray with team members in the most public manner conceivable. After he refused multiple offers of potential accommodations, the school placed him on paid administrative leave.
The next year, he did not apply for a contract renewal—then falsely claimed that he had been fired. Kennedy later sued the school for violating his First Amendment rights.
Ultimately, the Supreme Court is going to rule in Kennedy’s favor. When the case first came up on appeal, in 2019, Justices Sam Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh all signaled their belief that the school district had violated Kennedy’s rights. They only punted due to “unresolved factual questions.”
These justices, now joined by Amy Coney Barrett, have jacked up their rhetoric about government “discrimination” against religious speech and exercise in the intervening years. They have demandedspecial rights for religious groups and individuals while insisting that the separation of church and stateis actually unconstitutional. Under this view, the government is not barred from endorsing or coercing religion in schools; it is required to do so.
Kennedy takes this principle to its logical extreme. The court appears likely to hold that the First Amendment does not prohibit school officials from praying publicly on the job—but rather protects their ability to intermingle church and state, whatever the impact on students and their parents.
Lost in this establishment clause rebrand are the voices of students who do not share officials’ beliefs but feel pressured to endorse them anyway. The Supreme Court was keenly concerned about such children in Lee and Santa Fe, identifying an overwhelming government interest in protecting children from religious coercion with an eye toward the type of state-sponsored religious indoctrination that animated the Framers. Now, the rights of those students have been scrubbed from the constitutional calculus.
But even if SCOTUS no longer cares about them, they still exist. As Kennedy martyred himself in the media, parents revealed to the school that their children were extremely uncomfortable with his prayer circles. At least one member of the football team felt obligated to join Kennedy’s prayers because he feared that otherwise, “he wouldn’t get to play as much.” Other members participated only because “they did not wish to separate themselves from the team.”
The prayer circle, in short, created favored insiders (Christian believers) and alienated outsiders (everybody else). This dynamic is not only offensive to religious freedom; it also has a uniquely pernicious impact on children. As a group of psychology and neuroscience scholars explained to the court, coaches have a powerful effect on the behavior of the student athletes in their charge, athletes who crave their approval and support. Adolescents also have “heightened neurobiological sensitivity” to rewards in the presence of their peers, which makes them especially “susceptible to social conformity.” Kennedy did not have to explicitly force his students to join him in prayer; the intense social pressures were enough to coerce them into joining.
It is astonishing to contemplate that at the precise moment in which American parents are demanding access to the books their children are reading and video surveillance of public school educators, the rights of those parents who don’t believe that public school should privilege certain majoritarian religious viewpoints are poised to be eradicated at the Supreme Court. But in a sense, it’s not surprising at all. As those who want to banish Judge Hatchett’s entire historical and legal legacy based on a single opinion would tell you, reinjecting express religious indoctrination into public schools has nothing to do with the Constitution. It has everything to do with political power, and the way in which courts and Congress can wield it to refashion coerced Christian conformity into religious liberty.
Please look over both reports, I highlighted the second one. We need to make people aware of what is going on, how these people think. This is going beyond just a party campaign strategy. These are held beliefs of people willing to take the time to get into positions of authority to enforce their views. They would love to make being LGBTQ+ illegal and make us go away, as their beloved Russia did.
“I believe the Constitution. I believe in the way our founding fathers believed in this country: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That means that homosexuals cannot procreate. This goes against our Constitution.
“This goes against what parents want in the school district, and this is only one book out of thousands.” – Clark County, Nevada school board candidate John Carlo, confusing the Constitution for the Declaration Of Independence.
As you can see in the second clip below, Carlo also made national news back in February.
Carlo, who has posted photos of himself posing with the Confederate flag, has reportedly deleted his social media accounts since his latest claim went viral.
Clark County School Board candidate John Carlo: “Homosexuals can’t procreate. This goes against our Constitution.” pic.twitter.com/UPPmGcAp2s
A man at the Clark County School Board meeting invoked Black History Month and implored them to teach about “Hulk Lawyer,” who he claimed was a Black Confederate soldier under “General Vines.”
There is no record of a Confederate General named Vines or anyone named Hulk Lawyer. pic.twitter.com/aaWeCYr9C4
The school board wars continue as the far-right seeks to take over schools to restrict content involving people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals and others to whom they object.
Such was the case with Nevada candidate John Carlo, who was filmed speaking at a church saying that the U.S. Constitution demands Americans procreate. He explained that because homosexuals can’t give birth that they are unconstitutional. He did not address whether heterosexual couples who are unable to have children are also “unconstitutional” under his definition.
“I believe the Constitution. I believe in our — our — the way our founding fathers believed in this country: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” he said, mistaking the Constitution for the Declaration of Independence. “That means that homosexuals cannot procreate. This goes against our Constitution and this goes against what parents want in the school district, and this is only one book out of thousands.”
His complaint was about a book in a school library that he said made homosexuality acceptable.
The Declaration of Independence is typically taught in elementary schools in the Clark County districts. It says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
The phrase does not appear in the Constitution, which is also taught in Clark County schools.
There are also plenty of LGBTQ+ parents who have children through the same methods that couples who can’t have children use.
Carlo has a long history of far-right activism. He previously posted photos and comments about his support of the Confederate flag on Instagram.
He has since deleted his Instagram and Twitter accounts, but not before screen captures were taken.
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And so the purge has started. We have seen all this before. Now the school textbooks must be scrubbed of the information the radical right doesn’t want anyone to know. Remember that a recent example of changing history was the Russian young adults receiving sickening and deadly radiation dose by digging into and staying in the highly contaminated radioactive soil. Why did they do this? According to the Chernobyl plant workers the Russians never heard about Chernobyl, they were not taught it, they never seen reports on the news about it, never had talks at home about it. Maybe their bosses had heard of it either. In the US a decade ago Texas tried to scrub their history books of any information that showed the US in a bad light and less than always exceptional. Because the view of the newly elected board god created the US to be his nation on earth (not sure how that works with the bible) and unless you constantly sing the praises of the US you are unpatriotic. And we all know that only bad people like Democrats and the left are unpatriotic, right? I want to again make sure that when the radical right says CRT they are not talking about the real CRT but instead they are talking about the boogieman they created that claims the real history of mistreatment of black is CRT. The person who pushed this strategy admitted it was to link anything the right doesn’t like with the letters CRT.
Remember the Republicans claim the don’t say gay bills are about not teaching sex to little kids. Really math books are teaching kids sex. Damn I needed those math textbooks in school I might have learned more math. Would have kept me interested as a teenager I can say. So think of what this purge really is for. Making sure all mentions of mistreatment of blacks and any mention of LGBTQ+ even in the peripheries or vaguely because the scapegoats cannot be made mainstream / accepted by kids. It really makes clear why these bills are called “Don’t say gay”.
The Florida Department of Education on Friday said the state will not include dozens of math textbooks in a list used by school districts to buy books for classrooms because their content included references to critical race theory and other “prohibited topics” and “unsolicited strategies.”
The announcement was made in a press release titled “Florida Rejects Publishers’ Attempts to Indoctrinate Students.” It did not include the names of any of the books or provide specific examples of the content that prompted their objections.
The state agency said that 54 of the 132 textbooks that publishers submitted for the state’s review were “impermissible with either Florida’s new standards or contained prohibited topics — the most in Florida’s history.” Most of the books that were not approved were for grades K-5, the statement said.
On Friday, Florida Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran announced that the state had rejected the math textbooks under the state’s Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) standards. Corcoran has been pushing the moral panic over Critical Race Theory.
In a December press release from Gov. Ron DeSantis, Corcoran claimed, “our classrooms, students and even teachers are under constant threat by Critical Race Theory advocates.” DeSantis praised the banning of math textbooks.
“I’m grateful that Commissioner Corcoran and his team at the Department have conducted such a thorough vetting of these textbooks to ensure they comply with the law,” DeSantis said after Corcoran found 21% of math textbooks “incorporate prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies, including CRT.”
They were extremely suspicious of possible secret meanings behind all the = and ≠ signs.
"Florida targets school math textbooks over critical race theory objections"https://t.co/i4Q0LRKVjO
In case you were wondering how things are going in the Republican Party, the state of Florida is currently at war with elementary school math, claiming text books are “indoctrinating students”.
They. Are. At. War. With. Math.
This Orwellian shit is only gonna get worse folks.
Next #DeSantis will host a press conference with #MomsForLiberty announcing they’ve banned the EQUAL SIGN from math class claiming it’s LGBTQ sexual indoctrination.
It’s pathetic, but frightening. These crazy right-wing ideas now dictate education policy. https://t.co/6xccLPmh6g
This is how the rubes will hear this: “Even math books contain Critical Race Theory” and that will be the end of it. The Republicans can literally say or do anything and the rubes will vote them as long as they are racist, phobic and sexist. Women are whores, minorities should be obliterated and men are kings who can do as they please.
Please notice the framing because that is driving me nuts. Teacher teaching sex to kindergarten. Oh yes that is what the bills are about right, because the 5 to 8 year old’s are tired of having all the orgies and just want them to stop. That framing makes it seem reasonable to mandate the exclusion of entire segment of the population. Think of it this way, we need laws preventing these same teachers from mentioning or talking about different race marriages. We need this law because teachers are forcing the little kids to pair up by different races and pretend to be married for the week before changing different race partners to be married to at the beginning of the new week. If we don’t let kids know they exist, they meaning different race couples, they will think all married people are like their parents, all the same race. When a kid joins the class that has different race parents, we will make sure they do not mention it in the class or school and never talk about it with the other kids. That way no kid will grow up falling in love with someone of a different race.
Sounds nuts right? Well that is what the don’t say gay bills are doing and the reasoning behind them. There is not a rash of public school teachers showing six year old’s any sexual positions or acts much less gay ones. Kids do ask questions and teachers are very good at knowing how to answer in a way that gives just the needed information without launching into the Kama Sutra. Think about what is really behind the push of these laws. Any law that singles out one segment of society for open discrimination is a really bad law. It makes a scapegoat of a group of people for society to take out their anger on about things. Where have we seen that trick before by fascist.
Please notice in trying to clarify his comment he said that: But I think it is reasonable that kids in kindergarten and first grade are not taught about their sexual orientation in school. First kids don’t need to be taught their sexual orientation, it is part of who they are since birth. So what does this person really think is being taught to kids about sexual orientation. Notice it is about being gay or lesbian not trans as some would like to claim. He is very clear he doesn’t want kids taught about their sexual orientation. So what are teachers teaching about it when Johnny says he has two daddies that love each other or little jill says her older sister has a girlfriend? An orgy doesn’t burst out. The teachers merely let the kids know it is OK to be different than the constant hetero couples and GF / BF situations they have seen every day of their lives, on all media, in stores when taken out with mom and dad, in most of their family. Heterosexuality is pushed on kids from birth. These bills keep teachers from letting kids know it is OK not to be heterosexual and to be gay or lesbian. That is what the groups behind these bills want, to stop kids from learning tolerance and acceptance. Kids are not learning sex acts, they are not being taught how to be gay. How do you be gay anyway? Is it a certain walk or way of talking? I thought it was who you were attracted to and I don’t see how a teacher could teach that to little kids anyway. Oh right to some groups it is a choice to be gay, despite all the evidence it is not a choice but instead something we are born being. So teachers are making kids, forcing kids to identify as gay by … of course, talking about sex and forcing them to pair off and do the deed. When do the teachers find time teach reading so the kids can read all those gay porn books in the school libraries. Ok I know this turned into a rant, but people must see this for what it is.
Asked on a conservative radio talk show about the controversial law, Rep. Tom Suozzi leaned into right-wing talking points about not wanting teachers discussing sexual orientation and gender identity.
Rep. Tom Suozzi said he thought Florida’s controversial “Don’t say gay” law was “reasonable.” MICHAEL M. SANTIAGO/GETTY IMAGES
Rep. Tom Suozzi, who is running against Gov. Kathy Hochul in the Democratic primary for governor, called a controversial new Florida law aimed at discouraging discussions about sexuality and gender in classrooms “reasonable.” Dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law by its opponents, Democrats and LGBTQ activists have rallied against the bill as a discriminatory attempt to prevent any LGBTQ topics from getting discussed.
Suozzi was asked about the law while a guest on WABC’s Bernie & Sid in the Morning on Thursday. “I want to ask you about this Florida law, the Parental Rights Act, which prohibits teachers from talking sex, genitals, stuff like that, with kids kindergarten to third grade,” Sid Rosenberg said to Suozzi. He referenced the bill’s formal name, the Parental Rights in Education act, as well as right-wing talking points about the intent of the law being to protect children from age inappropriate sexual discussion in the classroom. Suozzi responded by echoing the same talking points.
“I think it’s a very reasonable law not to try to get kids in kindergarten to be talking about sex,” he said on the show. “I wish it wouldn’t become such a hot button issue where people are just attacking each other – it’s just common sense.”
Suozzi followed up his reply with an assurance that he is not anti-gay. “I’m very much in favor of equal rights, I’m very much in favor of treating gay people fairly and treating them like the human beings they are,” he added without directly addressing the controversy surrounding the Florida law. When Rosenberg began bemoaning policy “based on 3% or in some cases 1% of the population” – an apparent reference to LGBTQ-centric legislation – Suozzi quickly took the conversation in a different direction to criticize Hochul’s Buffalo Bills stadium deal.
As written, the law does not explicitly prohibitdiscussion of genitals nor being gay. “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards,” reads the section in contention. Republicans have said the law is overall fairly innocuous and simply serves as a means to prevent “groomers” from indoctrinating kids. The term has become a common dog whistle among the right when discussing LGBTQ issues, connecting them with pedophilia. On the left, most view the legislation as a thinly veiled attempt to censor any LGBTQ discussions in a classroom setting.
The comments from Suozzi come not long after other prominent Democratic leaders in New York have taken strong public stances against the Florida law. New York City Mayor Eric Adams last week unveiled an ad campaign in support of gay New Yorkers and in opposition to the statute. Billboards reading “Loud. Proud. Still Allowed,” and “People say a lot of ridiculous things in New York. ‘Don’t Say Gay’ isn’t one of them,” will go up around the state.
Hochul has also taken a public stance against the Florida law. “The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill that far-right Republicans in Florida are pushing through is hateful, discriminatory, and dangerous,” the governor said in a February tweet. When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the legislation in March, Hochul called it a “cruel and shameful political stunt,” in another tweet. Her campaign referred to these public statements when asked for comment. A spokesman for gubernatorial campaign of New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams – who himself has invited criticism for past comments on gay marriage – when asked for comment provided a statement saying “It’s dangerous for any leader not to see Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law for what it is: a direct, hateful attack on the LGBTQ+ community.”
In a statement to City & State, Suozzi did not walk back what he said on the radio. “Let me be clear, as I said on the radio, I fully support LGBTQ and equal rights,” Suozzi said. “I absolutely do not support the Florida governor in most policies he supports. But I think it is reasonable that kids in kindergarten and first grade are not taught about their sexual orientation in school… Maybe this isn’t a politically correct position but it certainly seems like common sense to me.” The statement once again did not address the concern by many other members of his party that the law will lead to discrimination against queer students in school, but added that “it’s the far leftand the crazy right who are making this a divisive issue.”
Suozzi’s stance on the “Don’t Say Gay” law shocked gay Democratic lawmakers in New York. “I think his comments are bone chilling,” state Sen. Brad Hoylman, who has heralded into law a number of prominent LGBTQ rights bills, told City & State. “I think every LGBTQ New Yorker should be put on notice that Tom Suozzi is no friend to our community.” State Sen. Jabari Brisport expressed similar outrage.
“One in three trans youth have considered suicide and a queer nightclub in Brooklyn was recently set on fire,” Brisport said in a text. “Tom Suozzi should be finding ways to support the LGBTQ+ community, not validating Ron Desantis’ bigoted moves.”
“I think it’s a very reasonable law not to try to get kids in kindergarten to be talking about sex… it's just common sense." – Tom Suozzi on Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law.https://t.co/EVj1XJg3Np
Local school districts in Missouri would be able to call elections on whether to ban transgender athletes from youth sports under a bill given initial approval by the House on Wednesday evening. A bill originally designed to audit the state’s voter rolls and tweak elections laws was amended by Rep. Chuck Basye, a Rocheport Republican, to include the language.
The chamber approved the amendment by an 89-40 vote after almost three hours of fierce and emotional debate. Democrats called the measure discriminatory and designed to invoke fear. “I was afraid of people like you growing up and I grew up in Hickory County, Missouri,” Rep. Ian Mackey, a St. Louis Democrat who is openly gay, said to Basye. “I grew up in a school district that would vote tomorrow to put this in place.”
“Your brother wanted to tell you he was gay, didn’t he?” Mackey asked him. Basye said he did and his brother thought their family would hold it against him. “Why would he think that?” Mackey asked.
“I don’t know,” replied Basye. The GOP representative said, “that was never going to happen.”
Mackey said, “I would have been afraid to tell you too. I would have been afraid to tell you to because of stuff like this because this is what you’re focused on. This is the legislation you want to put forward.”
The exchange has gone wildly viral on TikTok.
Watch and enjoy the smoke.
Meanwhile, in Missouri, State Representative @IanMack03007724 gives one of the most powerful speeches I have ever heard.
It did the same to me. I remember all my growing up years and into my early twenties living with that fear that generated such shame within me. I still hear, especially from religious bigots and know-nothings, that we are all born heterosexual like God wants us to be. However, some of us turn away from God and follow Satan into choosing to be homosexual. The fact that I would hear repeatedly that God hated me along with the world around me, was a horrible fear inducing and shame producing thing. I carried that around for so many years until I grew up to the point that I told myself to fuck it all. To this day, I still feel a bit of that well entrenched fear when I decide to tell some friend that I’m gay. Funny thing, at least to me, is that most have already figured that out and remained my friends.
Because we know that straight people do not get sexually transmitted diseases. We know that denying kids / young adults with sexual educations including the use of condoms means kids won’t sexually transmitted diseases. We know keeping sexual information about their body and how to ease their desires themselves with masturbation won’t prevent STDs. It is all those gays’ fault because of the icky stuff they do with each other. Just think of everything wrong in the world and put it on the LGBTQ+ especially them gays with same sex marriage. Boy does that make their god angry.
Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins:
If the CDC took COVID seriously, they’re doing the opposite for STDs. America’s public health agencies responded to COVID by quickly identifying how the disease was transmitted and recommending countermeasures. Oh, it’s an airborne virus? Let’s everybody cover their nose and mouth and stand a bit further apart.
If only we could figure out how sexually transmitted diseases were spread! Maybe we could use such information to ground our public health response. “If everybody did monogamous sex only,” Dr. Scott Field of the American College of Pediatricians said, “there would not be any STDs.”
STDs require much closer human contact than an airborne virus, but we’re still waiting for the CDC to recommend “social distancing” as a countermeasure to limit the spread of STDs.
As alarming as the rise in STDs may be, it isn’t the least bit surprising, especially among young people. Field attributed it to “policies, and the emphasis away from sexual fidelity.”
This is the natural outgrowth of the Left’s attempts to sexualize children and encourage sexual promiscuity throughout the education system.
To prevent this sexualized indoctrination, states have resorted to legislation. Earlier this year, Florida passed into law the Parental Rights in Education Act, which protects children in kindergarten through third grade from sexual indoctrination.
The bill attempted to give children at least a few years to learn — to read, write, add, tie their shoes — before dousing their imaginations in moral filth.
Instead, the Left wants to subject children to a radically opposite worldview, teaching them that only they can determine their identity, that they must do so according to their internal sexual feelings of the moment, and that, in fact, those sexual desires are their identity. How deceptive! How demonic!
As you may recall, the American College of Pediatricians is a tiny, far-right Christianist group that chose its name so that the public will confuse their pronouncements as coming from the highly regarded and pro-LGBTQ American Academy of Pediatrics.
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