Category: Vote / Voting

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

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

February 22, 2024 Christianists, Education

 

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.”

 

Todd20036 16 hours ago

Demons never infected atheists

Canadian Observer  Todd2003615 hours ago

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

San_Ban  Todd2003614 hours ago

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

666 and 999 16 hours ago

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

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rednekokie 16 hours ago

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.

Wintercat  rednekokie16 hours ago edited

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.

Damned_at_Random  rednekokie16 hours ago

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

Republicans caused our immigration problems.

CPAC Extremist: We’re Here To Overthrow Democracy Completely And Finish The Job Started On January 6th

CPAC Extremist: We’re Here To Overthrow Democracy Completely And Finish The Job Started On January 6th

Overthrow democracy completely and install a complete theocracy.  Need I say anymore?   The Republican Party of tRump, a Taliban level religious thuggery.   The only one with rights will be the men at the top.  Hugs.  Scottie

 

February 22, 2024 Christianists, Extremists

 

“All right, welcome, welcome, I just wanted to say welcome to the end of democracy. We’re here to overthrow it completely, we didn’t get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here [waves cross]. We’ll replace it with this right here. That’s right, because all glory, all glory is not to government, all glory to God.” – Far-right extremist Jack Posobiec, brandishing a necklace with a cross pendant.

Posobiec, widely considered to be the primary promoter of QAnon Pizzagate batshittery, appeared here last week when a Michigan state rep was stripped of his committees for sharing a racist meme posted by Posobiec.

Also last week, Posobiec appeared on Charlie Kirk’s podcast where the pair agreed that children should watch televised executions.

In 2023, Posobiec led prayers in Latin as a Catholic mob protested the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at Dodger Stadium. He also posted a fake photo claiming that God had punished the Dodgers by flooding the stadium.

In 2020, Posobiec appeared on JMG when he claimed that Black Lives Matter activists had placed pipe bombs on the National Mall, a claim DC police said was false.

The following month the SPLC published a lengthy report linking Posobiec to white supremacist groups and neo-Nazis. Posobiec occasionally works a host for OAN.

He first gained national headlines when he and Laura Loomer disrupted a Shakespeare play in Central Park and is perhaps most infamous for infiltrating an anti-Trump rally and holding up a “RAPE MELANIA” sign.

 

Sashineb13 hours ago
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TnCTampa13 hours ago

So help me god if the Democrats dont have this on a loop on TV, radio and internet then they aint even fucking trying.

Beagle🌻  TnCTampa10 hours ago

Use it as one element of a campaign, yes. Use it on a loop, by which I assume you mean build the entire campaign around it (and my apologies if I misread your meaning), no — the Ds have a lot of arguments that they can use.

Sam_Handwich 13 hours ago

Is there a point at which the FBI starts taking this seriously?

Max-1 🔫+cult(R)=☠️  Sam_Handwich13 hours ago

Christopher Wray (R)…
Enough said.

The Red flags going into J6 were just Red hats to him…
So the FBI did nothing to prevent it.

Bungee13 hours ago

Yeah… I don’t like the future the GOP envisions for the country.

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AyJayDee2 13 hours ago

MAGA: We will overthrow democracy and institute a fascist dictatorship

NYT: Biden is old

Bungee  AyJayDee213 hours ago

😉

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doninkansas  Bungee10 hours ago

this whole Biden’s age thing makes no sense. like Trump isn’t that much younger and is both physically and mentally in whole other league than Joe.

Bungee  doninkansas 9 hours ago edited

I agree. It’s nonsensical, but the media just looooooves banging that drum. It may have worked against McCain to have Palin as a running mate, but that was because she was a blithering idiot. VP Harris gets largely ignored in the MSM, which I think sucks because she’s awesomely qualified.

Jack Frost  Bungee12 hours ago

The biden team needs to address his age HEAD ON and make it a non-issue with voters. Its only an issue if we allow it to be.

Ignoring it or lying about it is going to lose voters. We need a message for this as its polled to be an issue voters are concerned about.

How some of you are acting like this is your first election is beyond me.

Todd20036 13 hours ago

Nice to know they aren’t pretending anymore

DmR  Todd2003613 hours ago

This is their last gasp.

Fundies and Wingers are dying off, and the newer generations are not that attracted to either fundamentalist religion or MAGAcy.

They will no longer be able to get their agenda done at the ballot box. They will need to cheat and use force to do so. 

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    Rally featuring Rep. Andy Biggs co-sponsored by Proud Boys, other white supremacist group

    https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2024/02/20/andy-biggs-spoke-at-event-sponsored-by-extremist-group-the-proud-boys/72665908007

    The republicans are the party of racists.   Not all republicans are racists but all racists are republicans.  And the racist authoritarians have become the majority of the elected party members are flat out open white supremacists.   They why is hard to understand why?   It can not be where they are from because they are all over the country, so it must be from constantly being told brown people from other countries are somehow less than US white people.  Or they are paid to be that way by the donations they get from hate groups and people like Putin / Russia.  Either way, they are not pro-US, they are not patriots, they are bigot racists who deny that this country has always been multicultural and multiethnic.   Hugs.  Scottie

    Laura Gersony
    Arizona Republic
     

    U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs over the weekend appeared at a rally that was co-sponsored by several extremist organizations, including the state’s chapter of the Proud Boys, and a student group that has promoted anti-Jewish materials.

    Held in front of Arizona’s state Capitol, the 11th annual Second Amendment Rally featured not only a roster of gun rights advocates, but also several players from the state’s right-wing fringe.

    One of the event’s “foundational sponsors” was the College Republicans United, a student group with chapters in Arizona that embraces white supremacy. CRU’s website promotes texts that helped fuel the rise of anti-Jewish sentiment in the early 20th century, including Henry Ford’s “The International Jew” and “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” a fabricated text that claims to document a Jewish plan to dominate the world.

    CRU also has ties to white supremacist Nick Fuentes. On Saturday, the group’s table displayed a flag emblazoned with Fuentes’ logo.

    One of its members created the event’s pamphlets, according to a copy obtained by The Arizona Republic.

    Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., turns as he speaks with Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., ahead of the 13th round of voting for speaker in the House chamber as the House meets for the fourth day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.

    Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., turns as he speaks with Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., ahead of the 13th round of voting for speaker in the House chamber as the House meets for the fourth day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.
     

    Arizona’s chapter of the Proud Boys, the right-wing group known for promoting political violence, also was a sponsor of Saturday’s rally.

    The event appearance was not out of character for Biggs, R-Ariz., one of the furthest right members of Congress who has long been associated with right-wing extremism, including the push to undermine the 2020 presidential election. Biggs, along with Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., were among 26 Republicans who refused to sign a pledge disavowing “white nationalism and white supremacy.” He previously spoke at the Second Amendment rally last year.

    “Let me tell you what the hard left — the Marxist Democrats in Congress — want to do. They want to take away your gun rights,” Biggs said at the event.

    “Anti-gun zealots are unleashing a full-frontal assault on our God-given, constitutionally protected Second Amendment rights,” he wrote on social media afterwards. “I don’t accept these attacks and neither should you.”

    Biggs represents much of Phoenix’s Southeast Valley in Congress. His office did not respond to a request for comment.

    Among more mainstream conservative organizations, the far-right groups’ brands are political kryptonite. Earlier this year saw a firestorm when several county Republican committees said they were duped into planning a CRU event that involved Fuentes. The county GOP groups walked back their participation, or denied they were involved, once the connection became known.

    But the far-right groups were emboldened by former President Donald Trump, who has hosted Fuentes for a meal at his private Mar-a-Lago estate and name-dropped the Proud Boys in a Sept. 29, 2020, debate with now-President Joe Biden in which he told the extremist group to “stand back and stand by.”

    State Reps. Quang Nguyen, R-Prescott Valley, and Leo Biasiucci, R-Lake Havasu City, and Turning Point USA contributor Paige Roux also were on the program for Saturday’s event.

    Conservative state Rep. Austin Smith, R-Wittmann, was listed as a speaker in event promotional materials, but his name was taken off the event website in the weeks leading up to the rally. Smith, who has previously called CRU a “cancer,” confirmed he was not in attendance, but said he “had no clue” the student group was involved and could not attend the event because of other obligations.

    Laura Gersony covers national politics for the Arizona Republic. Reach her atlgersony@gannett.com or 480-372-0389.

    GOP Rep Headlines Rally With Proud Boys And Nazis
    Biggs is one of the “Gaetz Eight.”

     

    NarutoMania16 hours ago

    The (R) next to their names needs to be replaced, either with the letter (N) for Nazi, or just a simple swastika will do.

    Refugay  NarutoMania16 hours ago

    R is for Racist.

     

    Let’s talk about updates on the House GOP’s witness….

    Trump Confirms VP Shortlist, Biden’s Operation Crazy S**t is Underway & We Play On the Money!

    Joe Biden arrived in Los Angeles to raise money for his campaign, Trump confirmed a list of names on his running mate short list and is busy zeroing in on issues that don’t exist, New York Attorney General Letitia James said that she might seize Trump Tower if he can’t come up with the money to pay his $355 million fine, Hunter Biden’s attorneys say that federal prosecutors mistakenly believed that they found a picture of cocaine that was actually just sawdust, and in celebration of all the POTUS talk this week – we play our very popular game “On The Money!”

    Jon Stewart on Tucker Carlson’s Putin Interview & Trip to Russia | The Daily Show

    One thing that Jon did not point out.  While Tucker was going on how low the prices are in Russia, the price for the small amount of groceries he got which he claimed was a weeks worth … really small eaters there, was over half the monthly income of the average Russian.  So Tucker blew half the money the average Russian earns on one week’s food alone.  I think as hard as things are in the US, we still have it better.   By the way, Stewart’s comedic timing and ability is still spot on, I think.     Hugs.  Scottie

    In response to online backlash over his criticism of Joe Biden last week, Jon studies Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin in Russia for a lesson in speaking “of course” to power. Plus, Michael Kosta reports from North Korea to demonstrate how nice life under a dictatorship can be.

    Let’s talk about Biden, Russia, the GOP, and a surprise….

    Let’s talk about information consumption and an executive order….

    Hate Group Uses Alabama “Frozen Embryos” Ruling To Try And Block Florida’s Abortion Rights Ballot Measure

    Hate Group Uses Alabama “Frozen Embryos” Ruling To Try And Block Florida’s Abortion Rights Ballot Measure
    The Alabama Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that an embryo created through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is a “minor child” and is no different under the law from an unborn child in the womb.

    I don’t understand this ruling at all.  How even religious extremists could find a frozen embryo or any embryo a “minor child” defies all medical knowledge of biology.  Of what cells are, of what happens in the reproductive track through the stages of fetal development.  Hell I don’t even know it all to be honest and I read up on it.  But medically at the point where it is not even implanted in a host it is not even a potential child.  And that is all a pregnancy is until viability, a potential possible future maybe child that the body could expel at any time.  There is no mystery that medically this makes no sense.   So the real question is in 2024 is the US going to be governed by dark age superstitions or real medical science? But as always religious extremists can never be happy to win the right to force their views on some people, they must drive on until they have the right to force their religious superstitions on everyone.  Yet they claim being forced to use a trans person’s preferred pronouns are an infringement of their civil rights, but the right to control female bodies and other people’s reproduction / sexual choices is normal and their right.   Hell these people won’t take a vaccine to save hundreds of thousands of people from dying, they won’t wear a mask because it violates their civil rights.   But telling people who they can have sex with, how they may dress, and what kind of sex they are allowed, and of course preventing life-saving medical procedures for pregnant people are somehow fine for them to do?  I don’t have the stomach to repost the rant of the religious bigot group as they now try to use the Alabama ruling to force the state of Florida to disallow the abortion ballot measure.  Please go to the link above and below to read them.     Hugs.  Scottie 

    Alabama Supreme Court: Frozen Embryos Are Children
    The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday reversed Mobile County Circuit Court Judge Jill Parrish Phillips’ decision to dismiss a lawsuit in which a couple sued an Alabama fertility clinic and hospital for the “wrongful death” of their frozen embryos in a ruling that was riddled with theology.

    The ruling pointed to the Alabama Constitution Section 36.06, which argues that each person was made in God’s image, meaning each life has an incalculable value that “cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God.”

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