Florida House Approves Chaplains For Public Schools, Bill’s “Tongues-Speaking Exorcist” Sponsor Celebrates

Since the 1980s religious leaders in the Christian faith have tried hard to take over state governments, force their church dogma into public schools, and now enshrine religious doctrines in federal laws.   The religious right wants the words Christian to be a legal way to disregard any law or rule they don’t like, giving Christians special privileges they deny any other religion.  I don’t understand their absolute delusion that the US was to be a Christian theocracy?  I don’t understand how they think forcing their religion on everyone is better than democracy?  Hugs.  Scottie


 

Florida Politics reports:

Bipartisan legislation that could put religious figures in your child’s classroom passed the House by an 89-25 margin, after a spirited debate in which one of the sponsors called herself a “Holy Roller” and said she “casts out devils.”

HB 931, sponsored by Republican Rep. Stan McClain and Democratic Rep. Kim Daniels [photo], would “authorize volunteer school chaplains to provide support, services, and programs to students. Daniels also said the separation of church and state was “intended to keep the state out of the church.”

“I am the opponents of this bill’s worst nightmare,” Daniels continued. “I cast out devils, I pray in tongues, I’m a Holy Roller. But nobody on this floor can ever say I tried to convert you. Jesus is too good to push down anybody’s throats.”

Read the full article.

Rep. Kim Daniels, who claims to be an exorcist by trade, first appeared on JMG when she declared that children’s dolls are sometimes possessed by demons.

Prior to her election as a state rep, Daniels led the campaign to defeat Jacksonville’s LGBTQ rights ordinance.

Her bill to place “In God We Trust” signs in all Florida classrooms was approved in 2018.

In 2019, she authored an ultimately failed bill to force Florida schools to offer separate elective courses on the Old and New Testaments.

Daniels, who claims the title of “apostle,” earned national attention last year when an old video was surfaced in which she declared, “I thank God for slavery.”

In the Christian network video below, she explains that her primary role in life is as a “demon buster.”

 

Demons never infected atheists

True as far as that goes, but I have encountered a few cats being raised by atheists that I have a few doubts about. 😉

I know! We’re immune to all sorts of ailments that afflict the religious.

Are the kids going to be learning something like this from them???

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I am so very grateful that I received my education before the absolute crazies took over.
I can only weep for those attempting to get an education in this day and time.

I grew up in the South Florida of the 80’s and early 90’s. I went to a very progressive elementary school that had open classrooms and self-directed learning and a media center that showed immersive media from all around the world to make kids worldly, kids from many nations and every race, teachers that were openly homosexual and it was known they had a same sex spouse and that was fine. We were taught about the Rosewood Massacre and the truth of the Seminole Wars, the latter even under the locally built chickee hut on the playground.

It is now a completely unrecognizable place to me, and I never want to return even for a visit.

My granddaughter is in Pensacola. My daughter had to sing a release to give her access to the middle school library.

I really wish they would leave that asylum

Israeli Minister Celebrates Gaza Genocide During Knesset Hearing

Oklahoma LGBTQ teen did not die from trauma, police say

Canadian Doctor Shot By IDF Describes Gaza’s Devastated Medical System | Dr Tarek Loubani | TMR

Please watch this video.   It is so important to understand just what Israel is doing to hospitals, medical providers, and how they just don’t see any Palestinian or their supporters as humans, as people.  To the Israelis, they are all something to be wiped out, to be terrorized to nonexistence.  Hugs.  Scottie

Emma speaks with Dr. Tarek Loubani, associate professor at the University of Western Ontario and leader of the Glia Project, to discuss what is happening on the ground now that hospitals in Gaza are mostly non-operational.

Doctor’s Gaza Experience Brings MSNBC’s Joy Reid To Tears

Let’s talk about Oklahoma vaguely….

What Beau is referring to is an N.B or transgender teen who was brutally assaulted in a girls’ bathroom.    Notice that the attacks on trans and non-binary people in bathrooms got much worse at the urging of right wing hate preachers / politicians.  Notice it is the rhetoric is always that trans people will hurt your daughters, but the facts show that is wrong.  It is the trans people being hurt by cis people.  For needing to use a toilet.   I did not post the quote but in the first article it mentions Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, is facing intense scrutiny over his ties to Chaya Raichik, the figure behind the far-right Libs of TikTok hate account, and for their outspoken stance against transgender rights.   Hugs.  Scottie

The grandmother, Sue Benedict, told The Independent that her child had been the subject of months of intensifying bullying that began earlier in 2023 after Oklahoma’s Republican-led government banned transgender students from using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity.Benedict told their grandmother that they and another trans student had fought the other students in the bathroom, according to the Independent. The teen told her they’d hit their head on the floor.  “Nex did not see themselves as male or female,” Sue Benedict said. “Nex saw themselves right down the middle. I was still learning about it, Nex was teaching me that.”  https://news.yahoo.com/oklahoma-transgender-student-dies-allegedly-125629309.html

Nex Dagny Benedict killed Oklahoma non binary student beaten classmates bathroom Owasso High School
Nex Dagny Benedict killed Oklahoma non binary student beaten classmates bathroom Owasso High School
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What is nonbinary?

nonbinary person experiences their gender identity and/or gender expression outside of the binary categories of “man” and “woman.” Other words may be used by nonbinary people to describe their gender more specifically, including agender, bigender, demigender and pangender.

Some nonbinary people call themselves transgender and consider themselves part of the transgender community, while others do not.

“Nonbinary is an umbrella term that encompasses many different ways to understand one’s gender,” according to GLAAD.

What is transgender?

Transgender describes a person whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

A person can be transgender without having gone through a transition — the process in which a person brings their gender expression and/or their body into alignment with their gender identity. A transition can include a social transition, legal transition and medical transition.

What is cisgender?

Cisgender refers to a person who is not transgender, and whose gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/02/20/what-is-nonbinary-transgender-cisgender-gender-term-etiquette/72669303007/

 

Dr. Thaer Ahmad, emergency room physician and assistant program director of the Advocate Christ Emergency Medicine Residency Program, discusses his recent experience volunteering at the Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.

Total Chaos: What A Palestinian American Doctor Saw In Gaza

Thaer Ahmad then walks through his assessment of the already shaky state of the healthcare system in pre-October 7th Gaza, as well as his relationship to the healthcare system, as a first-generation Palestinian-American doctor, before tackling the extensive effort it took to get into Gaza as a healthcare worker. Next, Dr. Ahmad explores the extreme changes in quality of life in Southern Gaza from his previous experiences providing healthcare, parsing through the impact of mass displacement into Rafah alongside the dwindling number of functioning hospitals in the region creating a system of severely overworked, underfunded, and under-resourced healthcare workers.
Dr. Ahmad explores the extreme changes in quality of life in Southern Gaza from his previous experiences providing healthcare, parsing through the impact of mass displacement into Rafah alongside the dwindling number of functioning hospitals in the region creating a system of severely overworked, underfunded, and under-resourced healthcare workers. After looking at the impact of the mass starvation and water scarcity on health, Thaer explores the constant siege on hospitals, even in the south of Gaza, and the clear goal of extending the ethnic cleansing until Gaza is gone, also expanding on the massive impact of the violent occupation on children in Gaza.

Texas School Board Member Resigns After Helping Evangelical Film Crew Sneak Into High School [VIDEO]

I posted on this the other day.   I was outraged about the sneaky way it was done and how if a left leaning group was to do this, the right would lynch someone.   So it is appropriate that I post the follow-up.  Hugs.  Scottie


 

Dallas’s ABC affiliate reports:

A Keller ISD school board member announced on Facebook Sunday she will resign from her position. In a post from her now-deleted page, Sandi Walker wrote she decided to resign as a trustee after prayer and conversations with friends and family. Walker added she was proud of what the board had accomplished in her nearly two years as a member.

Walker was one of two KISD trustees who issued apologies amid controversy about an Evangelist film crew from the Netherlands who was allowed into a school and filmed students without the district’s or parents’ consent. The district confirmed this happened on Feb. 9.

The superintendent says the film crew assured them no students or teachers would be visible in their final product. The district says its lawyers have “directed the film crew to destroy all footage it collected or return it to Keller ISD.”

Read the full article. My first post on the incident is here. The evangelical network that hired the film crew recently produced a documentary titled “God, Jesus, Trump.”

 

I bet it was a conversation with an attorney was the real reason to bail.

And how do we know 100% of that all video footage was destroyed. They’ve shown they can’t be trusted. Anyway, I’d still sue them and the school district.

P.S. Maybe this religious freak with come up with a Bible verse that covers being sued into the stone age.

Fascinating how she prayed over the decision to resign, but she apparently didn’t bother to pray over the decision to commit this offensive act in the first place.

Maybe there’s a lesson for her in there, somewhere…

I’m sure she did. Her ‘god’ told her he was cool with it. I suppose ‘he’ changed his mind, or something.

She very easily had a ‘feeling’ that Jesus was talking directly to her, so she responded with her gut.

And now she’s going to find out exactly how that failed mode of being is going to bankrupt her. The lawsuit will be expensive.

Any action, no matter how criminal or heinous, is okay if you’re doing it for Jesus. See: murdering women’s healthcare providers.

why is it Jesus only tells them they fucked up after the fact?

It’s nice to see parents standing up to the Christian Groomers.

The evangelical network that hired the film crew recently produced a documentary titled “God, Jesus, Trump.”

So they let insane people have access to children without their parents’ consent. It’s no wonder the parents are upset.

That thing where conservatives are outraged that strangers have access to children:

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This was illegal. Most HS students are minors. You can’t put them in tv or in a movie without parental consent. This is a legal mess for the school that has only just started.

Let me re-write this. I got caught. I fucked up. I should have never been elected with my Jesus ideology. I’m not sorry in the least.

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“The Jesus made me do it!”

No apology whatsoever, typical “good christian”.

Why do they always have to shove their goddamn idiot lifestyles in our face?

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GOP: Trans persons will sneak into school and rape our kids!

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Against the law to teach the truth about history

Thanks to Ten Bears for the link.   Hugs.  https://homelessonthehighdesert.com/2024/02/18/firstday-no-flight-fight/

Doonesbury Comic Strip for February 18, 2024

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/02/18

Florida Bill Would Place Chaplains In Public Schools

Again like my last post, evangelical / fundamentalist Christians feel both entitled and driven to push their god / Jesus on everyone else kids in PUBLIC schools.  No one is saying the families that want a religious life can not have one.   Of course they can, but they can not force it on other people’s kids.  They can do it in their homes, in their churches, even in public they can show their religion.  They just can not grab kids from other families and force them to go to church or other ceremonies.  But as their power and numbers decline, as young people reject their message of hate and bigotry, instead of changing their plan is to force indoctrinate other people’s children.  The goal is to convince more kids to “Turn to god and hate others who are different”.   Hugs.  Scottie


 

Florida Politics reports:

The three Rs (reading, writin’, and arithmetic) are slated to have a new addition soon in public schools: religion. The Senate legislation (SB 1044) is slated to be heard in Tuesday morning’s Appropriations Committee on Education.

That bill, sponsored by Sen. Erin Grall, would “authorize volunteer school chaplains to provide support, services, and programs to students as assigned by the district school board or charter school governing board.”

“Parents must be permitted to select a volunteer school chaplain from the list provided by the school district, which must include the chaplain’s religious affiliation, if any,” the bill reads.

Read the full article.

A similar law has already been approved in Texas, where it is spearheaded by an avowed Christian nationalist who once worked for an anti-LGBTQ hate group.

Republican state Sen. Erin Grall has appeared here in recent weeks for her bill to ban minors from social media.

Last year Grall appeared here for her bill that would require rape victims to show proof of having been raped in order to qualify for an abortion exception.

Grall that same month authored a bill that would fine trans people $10,000 for using the “wrong” public restroom.

 

. . . but not a clinical or administrative social worker because that would be . . .

“socialist”.

This is clearly to expand their victim base and expand access to children for them.

My Iman will be right there.

I’m guessing the local coven and the Church of Satan can each send a representative.

 

“Parents must be permitted to select a volunteer school chaplain from the list provided by the school district

I’m guessing only the right brand of Christian will get onto their list.

Given a choice between leaving my child with a christian priest or a Wiccan, there’s no question which I’d decide.

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Which provides yet more grounds for a lawsuit.

Christianists are LGBTQ people’s biggest enemies, they have been forever.

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…and the result was:

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And enemies of women as well

Florida and Texas are the two prototype theo-fascist regimes. If the Orbanites are successful there, they will expand it all through the South and then everywhere else.

Florida, Oklahoma, Montana and New Hampshire all allowed PragerU into their schools. Christian nationalism has footholds all over.

They call it a “culture war” but we all know it’s a Christianists war to make the US a theocracy.

“Parents must be permitted to select a volunteer school chaplain from the list provided by the school district, which must include the chaplain’s religious affiliation, if any,” the bill reads.

Gosh, sure sounds like a religious test for public office…

If this does pass (although it’s a clear violation of the separation of church and state), I hope that parents who attend churches with their children that are open and affirming to the LGBTQ+ community demand that their pastors be included on the lists that school districts provide. If a district refuses to include a pastor then parents should sue the fuck out of the district and the state of Florida.

Reform Judaism, UU, Pagans, MCC and similar LGBTQ-majority Christian denominations/ independent churches…

NO, NO, AND HELL’S NO. Parents who want their kids to see a religious chaplain can take them to a fucking church. Public schools are for teaching about the REAL world.

Republicans: “There must be no indoctrination in our schools!”

Also Republicans: “The principle function of schools is to indoctrinate children into our religion and worldview!”

This is one of those bills that’s explicitly written to get challenged and overturn prior Supreme Court rulings about religion in public schools. It’s so flagrantly and obviously unconstitutional.

Hey, lady, if you do something about assault rifles, maybe kids won’t need Last Rites.

She is a very busy busy body. I wonder what nonsense she is going to do next.

Christianity, forever finding ways to impose their bullshit and lies on others.

Nothing Talibanish at all about this.

Kids need math, science, reading, history and other teachers. Not chaplains. There are churches on practically every corner in Florida. Anyone seeking religious counseling can easily find it.

WTAF? Sectarian chaplains have no more place in Florida’s public schools than sectarian prayer does. Florida’s government has simply ceased to do anything useful for the state, and is now reduced to “messing with it.” Some Christian parents may be pleased with this bill, but I can’t think that non-Christian parents, or their children, will be happy. I hope the ACLU, and other organizations who think the separation of Church and State is important, will take up this matter, and see it defeated. The US is NOT a theocracy.

Because the kids just CAN’T see a chaplain at their own church.