Scamvangelical Posts Candidates For 30 School Boards

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PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: Wommack says homosexuals should have a “warning label on their foreheads.” Wommack says he prayed away “the curse of mildew.” Wommack says Jesus protects Christians from COVID by “turning off your virus receptors.” Two dozen Christians get infected with COVID at Wommack’s illegal bible conference. Wommack says he knows COVID is “no big deal” because his wife and son were “raised from the dead.”

I went to the link in the story above.    This guy is one hell of a piece of shit hate preacher.  He wants a complete take-over of civilian life, politics, government, every aspect of your life he wants to control.   It is a total power grab for him and his followers, in the name of his god of course.  Someone has to speak for god, he was just the one chosen to rule your life.  Some of the batshit crazy stuff in the article will chill you on what these people believe.   And they’re doing it by stealth and then steam rolling over ever right of others to form their perfect society in the name of their god, you know the one that god wants so to hell with your wants or needs.  And as you can see they will break the law because god’s will is far more important than the laws of men.  Plus once in power they will brook no disagreement with them, 1st amendment be damned.   Some quotes listed below.  There is much more of the danger these people represent in the article and the Joe My God post also. 

“We have enough people here in this school we could elect anybody we want,” he said at a meeting of the Citizen’s Academy, an event held at Charis by the Truth & Liberty Coalition, a nonprofit organization also founded by Wommack. “This county ought to be totally dominated by believers.” 

 

When voters in 30 school districts go to the polls Tuesday (Nov. 7), they will find ballots primed with candidates recruited and trained by Transform Colorado, a movement, launched by Truth & Liberty, “that unites Christian leaders to restore biblical values in the public square,” according to its website.

 

As in Woodland Park, where Wommack succeeded in getting his chosen candidates elected to City Council and gaining a majority on the school board, the goal, in the words of one victor, is to oppose “the teachers’ union and their psycho agenda.”

 

Truth & Liberty has lately served as Wommack’s main tool in reversing Colorado’s shift from red to blue, a tragedy he blames on “demonic” liberals. As proof, Wommack has claimed his “spies” in the local school system had found hundreds of obscene books. He warned that public schools taught fourth graders how to have anal sex and that they placed litter boxes in classrooms for students who identified as dogs or cats.

 

Wommack is harsh in his opposition to LGBTQ rights. The day after five people were killed and 18 injured in a Nov. 19, 2022, shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Wommack said he was “not endorsing” violence against LGBTQ people but complained they received too much sympathy, calling homosexuality “one of the major threats of the devil.”

 

But once elected, Woodland Park’s new conservative majority worked quickly — sometimes meeting in private, she alleged, in violation of state law — to turn the district upside down.

The district became the first and, so far, only locality in the U.S. to adopt the controversial American Birthright social studies curriculum, which has been rejected by Colorado’s State Board of Education. Since it was adopted, some students have been required to perform make-up work to qualify for college admission.

 

The school board also put a gag order on faculty and staff who disagreed with the changes, firing some who aired their concerns anyway. Recently, more than 80 teachers and staff signed a letter condemning the new “culture of fear and silence” and calling for solutions that “prioritize our children’s futures over politics.”

The district now budgets more than $200,000 a year for legal fees, more than 10 times its legal budget five years ago.

 

Despite the controversy, Wommack has given the new board his full support. Charis bused nearly 100 students to a May meeting where a vote was being held to elect a new superintendent, displacing hundreds of parents and teachers who were barred by capacity regulations. Some citizens now gather as much as five hours early at board meetings to make sure they can speak and vote.

Students from Charis, which operates a Practical Government school, also often sign up for many of the limited public speaking slots, using their allotted time to criticize “violent, extreme radicals, communists and socialists taking over our schools.”



 

“my kingdom is not of this world.”

Who said that? No one important to modern Christianity, especially the power grubbing, money hungry version of it..

“Start working to gain political influence?” They have the Speaker of the House!

 

In god we trust was added in the 50’s because of the religionists growing influence in politics.

 

Also “under god” was added to the pledge at the same time.

It would be a useful voting guide for me to know who to vote against.

Bet they are only sending the voting guide to people on the church mailing lists.

Which hopefully someone will leak.

People ask: how do we know who the stealth candidates are so we can vote against them? This is how. Look for who the christfascists are voting for and vote for anyone else. It’s not perfect (some can still slip through) but it will help.

 

I agree with the idea but…how do I find out who the Republicans are supporting? I can sometimes know when I see school board candidates signs on the same lawn as a Trump one but, mostly, I have to try and read between the lines on their webpages to see if they’re idiots or not…and some hide it really well!

My favorite….

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They’re not just targeting trans kids. For example, in states where these extremists have seized control of education, they’ve banned books, pedagogical content and practices and entire subjects, adopted curricula and standards and materials that turn the clock waaaay back on the rights and recognition of BBIMP, immigrants, Jews, people practicing minority religions, women and girls, disabled people as well LGBTQI+ people.

American Talibangelists…
Before you know it, women and girls will be banned from schools.

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(Who’s *really* after your children and always have been: the Christians.)

 

 

 

A great new site I was introduced to.

Top Five Republican Nightmare Fantasies About Public Schools

Stay Woke, Public School Teachers

Muzzling America’s Teachers with a Ban on Critical Race Theory is What Orwell Warned Us About

Reading for Pleasure – One of The Most Important Lessons in School

The Absurdity of PROTECTING Kids from the Holocaust Narrative ‘Maus’ 

Teachers are Being Spied on for Thoughtcrimes

Teaching Blind Obedience is Child Abuse

Western Media Is TERRIFIED To Acknowledge Israel’s Blatant War Crimes

Just some things I found this morning

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Some innocent Palestinians:

Some innocent Palestinians:

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The Birthing Persons SAGA will never end (Ana Kasparian on PBD podcast)

This is again another video on Anna’s hard right turn on trans people, which I guess is only to get her a better gig else where.   She keeps going on that she objects to doctors forms or offices calling pregnant trans males birthing persons.  But Anna has fervently claimed she doesn’t want kids and won’t have them.  So the term doesn’t apply to her at all.  She tries to claim the term is the same as the N word, but that is not used in any medical setting or forms at all.  She is tilting at windmills here.  She says she wants to be called a woman, and yes that is her right.  And if she was ever pregnant her doctor would honor that.   So why is she against what other people want to be called.   Her stance makes no sense when you look at it.   She got her plastic surgery nose out of joint and is making that the hill to die on.   Again the question is why?  But it is getting her a lot of attention and air time play on right wing podcasts / blogs.  So you ask why she has gone so far out on this that no one is calling her and making it her claim to fame?  Is she the new Riley Gaines, who made an entire media career over complaining she tied with a trans woman for fourth place!     Hugs.  

Before he became a politician, House Speaker Mike Johnson partnered with an anti-gay conversion therapy group

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/01/politics/mike-johnson-kfile-invs/index.html

Every major medical association affirm that conversion therapy is torture and not medically sound.  It doesn’t work and creates lifelong issues and problems.  It is abuse.  Sexual orientation is something one is born with.   No matter who you find sexually attractive, ask your self when you choose that?   Who sits down with a bunch of different pictures of men and women and says you know I think I will be sexually attracted to these.  It is a body reaction, not a mental one.  My dogs that love gravy these people understand that because they use torture methods including some put electrodes on kid’s scrotum to shock them if they get excited over male nudes.   WTF, no one chooses and these people did not choose who they are attracted to and get the tingles from.  The fact is they demand we all ignore reason and medical science so their holy book written 2,500 years ago when people were ignorant even of germs that caused sickness is correct.  Yes they tell us, just ignore everything that makes sense and the medical people are telling us to that the desert nomads of 2,500 years ago are correct.   The want an old dusty geopolitical warlord text to relate to our modern life.  Why did their god not know about cell phones?  Why wait to give life-saving health information to the people.  Because their god only knew what the people 2,500 knew.   Do they really want to claim that is the highest pinnacle of human knowledge?   But what is telling is his organization tells kids / teens they don’t need to accept kids who are different.   He is telling kids to not be tolerant or even accepting of LGBTQIA kids in schools.   Just like he doesn’t want to accept or tolerate that there are LGBTQIA people in society he has to accept are there.    Kill them all, or if you can not do that, just make don’t say gay laws that erase them from society.   Hugs.  Scottie


 

Read the full article. There’s much more. No paywall.
As I previously reported, Johnson and Alliance Defending Freedom helped create the so-called Day Of Truth as an on-campus Christian counter protest to GLSEN’s annual anti-bullying Day Of Silence.
Per CNN’s new reporting, Mike Johnson collaborated with Exodus for years on the Day Of Truth.
When Exodus finally collapsed in 2013, founder Alan Chambers issued a lengthy apology and admitted on CNN that ex-gay torture had never turned any of his thousands of victims heterosexual. Not a single one. Video below.

 

Exodus was a steaming pile of self hating homos hitting on each other. If Johnson was working with them, he was likely fucking around with one or more of them. There is tea that needs to be spilled.

A Netflix documentary call Pray Away dropped earlier this year. Tip of the iceberg stuff. There is another (now out) gay man that spent his professional life working for the LDS church and living a lie. He is now speaking his truth. Johnson has got gay face to the level that breaks my gaydar machine to a smoking ruin. I grew up among people just like him.

Exodus is an example of that fine xstian love bullshit. This presumably straight guy and his ilk should be forced into homosexual conversion, although, I suspect that they are, in reality, self-hating (for whatever reason) Gays who tried to convince themselves and the desperate Gays and/or their families who attended conversion camps that it could be done. If by some chance you have not seen “Boy Erased” I highly recommend it. It’s a very well done feature film on this very subject. IMHO it’s a 5 star winner. “Fair Haven” is another good one. There are a number of films on the subject. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

In the Netflix documentary, Pray Away, your assertions are confirmed. There wouldn’t need to be any homosexual conversion because most of them were gayer than geese the entire time. Imagine that. Several of the leaders admit to the lie. Boy Erased was heartbreaking, and Fair Haven really drove home the isolation and self hatred that many of us have been forced to carry.

I hope his “adopted” African American son steps forward with clarification on their relationship. I have a strong suspicion Johnson does not want that to happen.

I think he’s 40/in his 40s now? The article I read said he went into Johnson’s “custody” when he was 14 and Johnson was something like 27. Or maybe younger. It was before he was married. Strong “Nestor” vibes there.
That’s not to say that a young, single man can’t adopt a teenager he wants to help, just that it’s unusual enough that there should maybe be some extra scrutiny of the situation.

Republicans were actually really smart about how they slipped this guy in under the radar. People actually believed that the chair would remain vacant because the GOP couldn’t get their shit together… but in fact, they were just holding out for a true Nazi to install.

There’s a couple of TikTok videos going around in which Louisiana locals claim that Johnson was once a well-known patron at the Baton Rouge gay bar Central Station. I’ve found no reputable reporting on this, but nothing would be surprising when it comes to closeted Republicans.

Here’s one of those TikTok clips: https://www.tiktok.com/@mam…

Methinks He Doth Protest Too Much is entirely a thing.

maybe that is why he has a covenant marriage, so he can’t get out of it.

The Apache Drive-In over in Tyler, Texas is closer. It’s long been a hookup spot for the sexually frustrated from East Texas and northwest Louisiana.

As someone pointed out he adopted a 14yo boy when he was 25 or 26 and then married a conversion therapist 2 years later.

Hmmm. Wonder how long it took him to seek out the therapy?

You seem to think he sought therapy, instead of the obvious, got a beard

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So, it’s confirmed Johnson is in favor of mentally abusing teens all to convert and satisfy his perverted version of “Christianity”.

Oh of course. Because they know that eventually many of these confused gays will commit suicide and nothing would make them happier than for all homos to knock themselves off of the planet .

Biden Is CRUSHING His Chances At Re-Election

A Return to Morality

Wonderful comic on the religious rights new golden child’s take over of the house.   Be afraid, be very afraid but more importantly fight back and stop this return to the 18th century.   Hugs

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Hates Nearly All of Us

https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2023/10/speaker-of-house-mike-johnson-hates.html

I want to thank Ten Bears for the link to this web site.  I am going to do the non-WordPress version of follow on it.   Here is the link from Ten bears’ page with the links.  https://homelessonthehighdesert.com/2023/10/29/last-week-in-god-33/  Hugs.  Scottie


Liquor laws in Louisiana are a clusterfuck. Because of a state supreme court decision decades ago, they are subject to the whims of a community vote whenever someone can get it on the ballot. So a town can allow alcohol sales in, say, restaurants for a while and then, whenever some opportunistic Christian dickflea gets enough people itching, they can vote to overturn the law and go back to being a dry town or county. Or, you know, parish, as they call counties in the state because Catholicism. 

The decent-sized, if generally shitty, town of Minden in the generally shitty Webster Parish was dry in 2003. Minden is 30 miles from Shreveport, which is a decent-sized, if generally shitty, city. The economy of Minden was not doing great 20 years ago, so a group of business owners, with the support of the Chamber of Commerce, wanted to have another vote on allowing alcohol sales in restaurants, hoping that it would attract some chains to town or at least provide a new tax revenue stream. Minden had been dry since a vote in 1974, but after a contentious city council meeting in August 2003, it was decided that the restaurant alcohol sales law would be decided in a special election just a couple of months later. 

The people against allowing alcohol sales were straight out of a 1980s movie about tight-ass evangelicals refusing to allow anyone to have fun. Their warnings were like the lyrics of The Music Man song “Ya Got Trouble.” According to one local columnist, “They expanded from simply claiming this was a back-door was to bring about bars and package sales to more extreme connections. They alleged this was an ‘end-around’ to bring sexually oriented businesses, such as strip clubs to Minden. They also pointed out it could be an attempt to bring legalized gambling into Minden.” Churches went into overdrive, with prayer services just to try to get their invisible sky wizard to intervene. They even had round-the-clock prayers just before the election date. 

The anti-fun forces, led by five plaintiffs, tried to sue to stop the election, but they filed their lawsuit too late for it to be heard. Their lawyer was a Shreveport attorney who was making a name for himself as a supporter of nutzoid right-wing Christiand causes. And since you read the title of this piece, you already know that it was Mike Johnson, who is now Speaker of the House and second in line to the presidency. That’s right. Two decades ago, he was trying to stop alcohol sales in a town.

The voting occurred that November and over half the registered voters went out to the polls. That’s how much this meant in an off-year election. And, Lord have mercy, they voted 57-43% in favor of alcohol sales in restaurants in Minden. Johnson’s clients considered another lawsuit to question the elections results, but they decided against it, and Minden restaurants and now bars and, yes, casinos can serve alcohol. The nearest strip joint is still about 15 miles away, in the next parish over.

For years, Mike Johnson represented the shittiest fucking people in trying to halt others from having rights or enjoying life in a way that harmed no one. As a dick lawyer for the Alliance Defending Freedom (motto: “‘Freedom’ should probably be in quotation marks in our name”), Johnson was on the fucked up side of issue after issue in our bullshit culture war. He fought the city of New Orleans to stop it from offering domestic partnership benefits in the pre-Obergefell days. The law had been in place since 1999, and they sued in 2003 in a case they lost in 2005. He opposed the Obama abortion pill mandate, he sued in favor of various school prayer cases, and more. When it comes to abortion and LGBTQ rights, Johnson is the hardest of the hardcore opposing both. And when he was a state representative, in the panicked days before the Obergefell same-sex marriage decision in 2015, Johnson sponsored legislation that would allow businesses to refuse to serve same-sex couples and, going back to his earlier case, would allow a business to deny benefits to same-sex couples because of “religious” reasons.

And perhaps it’s here that we need to pause for a moment and say that Mike Johnson loves God. His version of God, I mean, since, you know, God is made up. But he fuckin’ loves God as intensely and loudly as a newly-out Omaha lesbian loves pussy. He leans Christian dominionist, which is as weird and insidious as it sounds. He says that the United States is a “biblical republic,” whatever the fuck that means. He told Sean Hannity, “Someone asked me today in the media, they said people are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun? I said, Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it. That’s my worldview, that’s what I believe.” I wonder if that includes all the rules in Leviticus, but I don’t want to ask about beard-shaving regimen.

In his speech before being sworn in as Speaker of the House, he said, “I want to tell all my colleagues here what I told the Republicans in that room last night. I don’t believe there are any coincidences in a manner like this. I believe that scripture, the Bible is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority. He raised up each of you, all of us, and I believe that God has ordained and allowed each one of us to be brought here for this specific moment in this time.”

I know they don’t give a shit what heathens like me think, but that shit sounds creepy as fuck. You’re telling me that your imaginary invisible sky wizard contorted all time and space and made everything in the universe move in such a way that you could become the leader of one house of the American Congress. That’s fucking insane because, see, first, you believe in an invisible sky wizard, and, even worse, you have no problem telling me what your invisible sky wizard is doing and saying, and, even worser, you demand that I follow what your invisible sky wizard says. You can say that there are lots of people who believe in your invisible sky wizard, but that doesn’t make it less creepy. In fact, it makes it way creepier. 

While Johnson talks a lot about “consensus” and shit, he sure has spent his career, including trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, approaching every issue with the clear-eyed resolution of someone who just loves to make shit worse for everyone except those who also hate nearly all of us. It won’t be some god who ruins the nation. It’ll be a very weird man.

(Quick note about Minden, Louisiana: It sucks as a town. But, man, there are awesome soul food joints there.)