Prayer in school has been a recent debate in the Supreme Court.
The case involves Joe Kennedy, a former high school football coach who was fired for allegedly pressuring students to perform Christian prayers.
Back in 1962, the Supreme Court ruled that New York state public schools could not begin school days with a state-composed prayer.
The court’s opinion was that the practice violated the First Amendment’s establishment clause since it amounted to government-sponsored religious instruction.
The Supreme Court now leads with more conservative judges and seems to be searching April 25 to rule in favor of a former coach who was fired for praying.
In the United States, Pew research shows a recent sharp decline in Christianity.
65 percent of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade.
Americans now describe their religion as “nothing in particular,” up from 12 percent in 2009. Members of non-Christian religions also have grown modestly as a share of the adult population
So what’s next for the Wylie ISD teacher? She has since refused to resign and says this can go on her record.
It was also expressed that one Wylie teacher retired early because of a threatened lawsuit.
“We need to stand firm in our principles and faith,” Parrish said.
Since news broke of her firing, Parrish said she feels “blessed” by the response she’s gotten in the following statement:
“Thank you so much to everyone who has reached out. You have no idea how much it means to me and my family. Being a teacher and coach is one of my greatest blessings. I’m so thankful to God for the special amazing students and athletes that he placed in my life. You all have blessed me more than you’ll ever know. Our family appreciates your continued prayers. Blessings to you.”
Nellie Parrish
The Wylie ISD superintendent has since responded, disputing her claims:
“Nellie Parrish’s contract termination was not because of prayer or Christianity,” said Light.
“This is false information and district personnel matters will not be discussed due to privacy,
Parrish said the school would play Christian music in the cafeteria alongside holding a prayer before football games, adding that Joey Light, the district’s superintendent, is known to lead a prayer on the first day of school.
Her claims are bullshit. They can’t just terminate her for no clear reason. If she was new to that district and still probationary status, they could non-renew her contract. That would make me wonder if she had been released from other districts for similar reasons. Something is missing from this story.
A gentle reminder: Not all Christians proselytize.
I’m married to a devout Christian man. He’s never – in the 48 years we’ve been together – proselytized in any way to me. Like all good and compassionate people of faith, he keeps his personally-held religious beliefs to himself, with no desire to “convert” anyone to anything.
He’s far from alone.
There are many many good and compassionate people of faith.
I am not even sure what to say to this except I think this is a very self hating gay guy trying to pretend to his followers he is straight because he doesn’t even have straight sex? But regardless he is a driven racist.
“I think if anything [being an incel] it makes me less gay. If anything, it makes me not gay as opposed to less gay, not that there’s any gay, but it makes me not gay.
“If we’re really being honest, never having a girlfriend, never having sex with a woman really makes you more heterosexual because honestly, dating women is gay, having sex with women is gay.
“And having sex with men is gay. Really it’s all gay. The only really straight heterosexual position is to be an asexual incel. That’s it. That’s all there is.
“Having sex in itself is gay, I think. I think that it’s really a gay act. Think about it this way: What’s gayer than being like ‘I need cuddles. I need kisses.’
“It’s all very sus to me. ‘I need to spend time with a woman’. I think, really, I’m like the straightest guy.” – Nick Fuentes, neo-Nazi leader and Holocaust denier
Multiple far-right Republicans have attended Fuentes’ events, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rep. Paul Gosar, Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, and Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers.
I’m waiting for them to wrap around to “You know, fucking a man is the straightest thing you can do. I mean, you’re not fucking some girly woman, you’re fucking a MAN! You have to be extra tough to do that. And you know what’s even more masculine? Being fucked by a man. Because you’ve gotta be able to take that big hard throbbing cock. You’ve gotta take it and wrestle it into submission so it gives you that big ole dose of testosterone that makes you even more of a man.”
Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, Mo Brooks and Andy Biggs are all GOP lawmakers who refused to sit down for voluntary interviews with the January 6th Committee. In a bold move, the committee issued subpoenas for all five of them. Former RNC Chair Michael Steele joins Katie Phang to discuss.
This is the part of right wing media that drives me nuts. Outright racist lying to create anger that the base will never bother to check if it is true and they wont accept the truth when you tell them. Hannity, who proudly says he is an opinion host not a journalist, makes a big display and statement and they accept it with no question. When you point out the lie of the entire thing, they attack you and ignore anything you say because they disagree with you. Clearly you get the point. They have been indoctrinated to believe only their cult leaders on Fox backed up by other smaller right wing media. Any other information is fake or false to them and those that tell them are clearly the enemy they must destroy. How do we have a country when this is the stuff going on? Yes the cult is only like 15 to 20% of the population, but they are the most violent and thuggish part, and they are dragging the country further down with them. On top of that there are the ones using them to gain what they want to take the country culturally back a century or more. I don’t have the solution but we better find one quick. I love what the leader of NZ said when asked why they did not have a problem with their covid response, she replied we did not let Murdock set up a fox station here.
“Look at that,” Sean Hannity said on Fox News Thursday night, pointing to a photo being shown next to him, “pallets and pallets of baby formula for illegal immigrants and their families even as hardworking American” — and now there was another photo — “families, we are now suffering a massive nationwide shortage.”
The photos had been provided to Fox by the office of GOP Rep. Kat Cammack, whose account of someone in the Border Patrol telling her of “pallets” of formula being sent to a border processing center had set off a whole outrage cycle on the right. They were used Friday morning as well on “Fox & Friends” during an extended interview with Cammack.
And they did not show baby formula. The photo Hannity pointed to, and the one that followed it, showed boxes and boxes clearly labeled NIDO. As anyone at Fox could have discovered with about a minute’s worth of fact-checking, NIDO is not baby formula; it is powdered milk. As its maker, Nestlé, specifically notes: “NIDO® products are only intended for children ages 1 year and older.”
This is beyond frustrating. While shelves here at home are empty, pallets of formula make their way to the border courtesy of the U.S. government. https://t.co/0DyFRcDDZd
— Congresswoman Kat Cammack (@RepKatCammack) May 12, 2022
Pallets of baby formula available at the border. But on shelves here at home, a crisis-level shortage for American families. This is Biden's America Last agenda on display. https://t.co/o2GcOoqggM
— Congresswoman Kat Cammack (@RepKatCammack) May 12, 2022
Kat Cammack torches Biden admin. on baby formula shortage: Exactly what 'America last' looks likehttps://t.co/eEP0G61RJ2
The genius of Donald Trump is his understanding that the greatest lie you can tell someone is the lie that the person wants more than life itself to believe.
Asking Fox to fact check their reporting is like asking Trump to stop lying. I can find pallets of powdered milk in nearly every grocery chain in America. I just checked Costco’s website. Even they have it.
As anyone at Fox could have discovered with about a minute’s worth of fact-checking, NIDO is not baby formula; it is powdered milk. As its maker, Nestlé, specifically notes: “NIDO® products are only intended for children ages 1 year and older.”
Asking Fox to fact check their reporting is like asking Trump to stop lying. I can find pallets of powdered milk in nearly every grocery chain in America. I just checked Costco’s website. Even they have it.
So, why can't we just import baby formula?
Heh heh, glad you asked.
Every heard of the United States Canada Mexico Agreement? That bit of legislation Trump and Republicans proudly replaced NAFTA with? Remember Trump bragging about that? Remember?
The same baby formula producer that had contaminated product and led to this shortage used billions of dollars to buy back stock instead of investing in their product safety. Putting profits before the safety of our children is unacceptable.
If Rupert Murdoch cared about truth, decency, democracy, or anything beyond lining his own already-bulging pockets he would put an end to this nonsense, but he won’t because he doesn’t.
I think the reality is they hate the idea of immigrant children getting baby formula. So should we let them starve? I’d bet most of those “compassionate” Christians would say yes. “Formula is only fer ‘Muricans!”
“And under President Donald Trump, the U.S. entered into a new North American trade agreement that actively discourages formula imports from our largest trading partner, Canada.” https://t.co/suWTf8u5v5
I wish that there were laws that protected citizens from such lies. Free speech is one thing, but this shit, while not sparking a full blown panic, is just keeping things simmering. One of my absolute dearest friends (talking to you Angela) hardly speaks with me, I’m guessing because of Facebook posts about the orange one. It’s sad, but as i get older I’ve just decided to stop chasing after friendships. I held Angela when her husband, and then her Mother passed away. She’s never once reached out to me, and 2021 was a helluva year for me. She and her boyfriend watch fox “news” and parrot what they see. You can’t change people, and it’s not worth trying. As you get older, your circle gets smaller. Fox News makes it all the worse.
American industry, unfortunately, CAN'T just spin up to replace the lack of supply from Abbott Nutrition. Because the US Dairy Industry has worked very hard over several decades to ensure the supply of infant formula is strictly managed to maintain a steady profit margin. https://t.co/Y9ygH2PDyg
Even taking them at their premise. Gotta love all these “pro-life” folks upset that.. we’re feeding people we’re keeping in custody? Especially infants that obviously had no choice in the matter?
Huh. Very “pro-life” indeed, since the clear implication is that we.. shouldn’t be feeding those infants we’re keeping in custody.. hmm. I mean, could take this as a reason to not keep them in custody? But that’s silly, I’m sure. Better to suggest that we just shouldn’t feed them.. while they’re in custody.. which.. uhhh.. not so pro life if you ask anyone who knows anything about how digestion works?
An investigation by the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology reports that ICE has accessed a lot of personal data and crafted a surveillance network designed to spy on people in the U.S.
Is this the US exceptionalism that the right keeps saying we need to instruct kids in schools? No this is the part of history they want to whitewash away. This is what the rabid right wing and Republicans like DeathSantis and Stephen Miller do not want US kids to know about. The US was not always the shining knight doing the best thing for everyone. The US like every country has a dark past that needs to be acknowledged and accepted so we can heal and never repeat them again. But if the right can erase these actions then they can also repeat them.
The potential Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade could have repercussions for fertility treatments such as IVF. Dr. Stephanie Gustin, the medical director for the Heartland Center for Reproductive Medicine in Nebraska, joins CBS News’ Lilia Luciano to discuss.
Can someone tell me why this action by the Israeli military is supported by the civilized world? Why does the US give billions of dollars a year to a country that has a population of people they attack even as those people try to have a funeral for their members killed by that very military? She was a clearly marked member of the press that the Israeli military did not want to report their abuses of the Palestinian people. So they killed her. Then they attacked her funeral and harassed her parents at their home that day claiming the occupied people who have no rights to fly or hold up their own flags. It might upset the good real people of the nation, the Jewish people. I am not an antisemite and shouldn’t have to say that. Criticizing the actions of a belligerent government against people unable to defend themselves is not bigotry against the Jewish people. The people of Palestine have no rights. They live under military rule. Their children can and often are rounded up and detained for no reason and the government doesn’t need a reason according to the Israeli government. The Palestinians live in an open air prison under military rule of an occupying army and they have no rights. The Israeli position is that they want to make it so horrible that all these people either die or leave, giving all of the land to the occupiers, who claim it’s all theirs given to them by their god. And the US government supports this. Your tax dollars support this. Hugs
Disturbing video shows Israeli riot police clashing with mourners at the funeral for Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed two days earlier as she covered an army raid in the Israeli occupied West Bank. At one point, the tussling becomes so intense that her coffin almost topples to the ground.
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