This should be absurdly unconstitutional on the face of it, but with our new and improved hard right Christo-fascist Supreme Court, who knows. Conservative Christians can NEVER stop trying to mark their territory in the public schools paid for with everyone's tax dollars.
The chaplains do not need to be licensed, will they be subject to background checks? And will the background checks be thorough enough to catch the preachers and pastor’s whoa have groomed entire congregations while molesting the children in their care? You know, the ones who admit on stage in church to the entire congregation that they had a sexual relationship with a minor and get standing ovations rather than handcuffs. The ones who have convinced all the adults who ought to be protecting their children that the sexual advances are just god’s love so they don’t end up charged with statutory rape. Maybe the ones who married the, technically legal with parental permission, child when she became pregnant, should not be in schools with unfettered and unmonitored access to underage children.
That’s only one red flag I see that Hemant didn’t bring up in the article.
This will be a disaster for LGBT students. Which these asshole likely consider a feature. I'd like to know how an untrained chaplain is supposed to help kids "navigate complex emotions", especially better than a trained psychologist.
This is grooming and also making sure kids with "issues" such as being LGBT are "counseled" to accept the christer cult instead of giving them real help.
This is just another attempt to destroy the public school system. Vouchers to defund it. Then install incompetent “professionals” to run it so folks will flock to the private schools for a better education. But with so many folks unable to afford tuition, even with the vouchers, children will not get educated. Then only the wealthy few will have be able to be educated, and the rest will be excluded again from seats of power and reward. Texas putting unlicensed chaplains in the schools, Florida filling teaching positions with untrained veterans, and presidents installing the likes of DeVoss as the head of education (someone who has admitted publicly she wanted to eliminate public schools entirely and has never stepped foot in a public school in her life), what else are we to conclude.
The GOP thrives when folks are uneducated and have nothing. Corporations make larger profits when their workers can’t improve their lives and don’t know any better. Wealthy get wealthier, the powerful get more power. The gap between the haves and the have-nots will only get larger, and it is already the largest it’s ever been.
Standard fundie conservative strategy. Cut needed public services on the one hand, while favoring private Christian versions of those same services on the other.
The church having lost the ability to physically force people to attend, does the next best thing: use the power of the state to prevent people from getting the things they want and need from anywhere else.
This can't be legal, please tell me this isn't legal. But this is Texas and Trumpian American so who the fuck knows. Ugh, it's too early in the morning to be this angry.
Seriously? It's not as though they don't have enough Jesus in the Lone Star State as it is. They've got a dentist on the school board, insisting that creationism be taught instead of evolution. There's the usual crap about thoughts and prayers every time someone with an AR-15 decides to run amok at a Walmart or a school. Governor Abbott leans on Jesus as though he were a member of his administration ... and NOW they want bible-thumpers instead of trained counselors?!?
If I lived in Texas (and I don't, though at times, I think Mike DeWine wants to take Ohio in the same stupid direction!), and I had a kid in school, I would be screaming bloody murder about this ... and I hope Texas residents 𝗗𝗢 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧.
As a Texan who grew up in these schools and has kids in these schools, I can honestly say that I have absolutely no doubt that as terrifying as this shit keeps getting, something is about to break. It’s too much of everything all the time. They are putting fascist pressure on so many areas at once that the ven diagram of cross over is almost just a circle. At least I’m hoping it’s too much. Maybe I’m being absurdly naive.
When considering this, I feel it would behoove the lawmakers to remember that several religious organizations have had some serious issues in the school-age bracket for a while now. The state would still be responsible for putting chaplains in the school building, in the unfortunate event that something happens.
Which it will, when Texas does this. We all know they're not going to set up any kind of vetting process, they're just going to assume it's Jesus so that makes it okay.
Texas lawmakers attempt to expose children to unqualified demagogues and pedophiles instead of providing any actual help or resources despite a budget surplus.
It's unethical, rankly immoral, and a perfect example of Christianity's treatment of children.
Someone explain to me why, exactly, we as a species haven't toppled every fucking church and thrown these sanctimonious narcissists into a ditch somewhere?
This should be absurdly unconstitutional on the face of it, but with our new and improved hard right Christo-fascist Supreme Court, who knows. Conservative Christians can NEVER stop trying to mark their territory in the public schools paid for with everyone's tax dollars.
The chaplains do not need to be licensed, will they be subject to background checks? And will the background checks be thorough enough to catch the preachers and pastor’s whoa have groomed entire congregations while molesting the children in their care? You know, the ones who admit on stage in church to the entire congregation that they had a sexual relationship with a minor and get standing ovations rather than handcuffs. The ones who have convinced all the adults who ought to be protecting their children that the sexual advances are just god’s love so they don’t end up charged with statutory rape. Maybe the ones who married the, technically legal with parental permission, child when she became pregnant, should not be in schools with unfettered and unmonitored access to underage children.
That’s only one red flag I see that Hemant didn’t bring up in the article.
This will be a disaster for LGBT students. Which these asshole likely consider a feature. I'd like to know how an untrained chaplain is supposed to help kids "navigate complex emotions", especially better than a trained psychologist.
This is grooming and also making sure kids with "issues" such as being LGBT are "counseled" to accept the christer cult instead of giving them real help.
This is just another attempt to destroy the public school system. Vouchers to defund it. Then install incompetent “professionals” to run it so folks will flock to the private schools for a better education. But with so many folks unable to afford tuition, even with the vouchers, children will not get educated. Then only the wealthy few will have be able to be educated, and the rest will be excluded again from seats of power and reward. Texas putting unlicensed chaplains in the schools, Florida filling teaching positions with untrained veterans, and presidents installing the likes of DeVoss as the head of education (someone who has admitted publicly she wanted to eliminate public schools entirely and has never stepped foot in a public school in her life), what else are we to conclude.
The GOP thrives when folks are uneducated and have nothing. Corporations make larger profits when their workers can’t improve their lives and don’t know any better. Wealthy get wealthier, the powerful get more power. The gap between the haves and the have-nots will only get larger, and it is already the largest it’s ever been.
Clergy -> Schools : Fox -> Henhouse
Standard fundie conservative strategy. Cut needed public services on the one hand, while favoring private Christian versions of those same services on the other.
The church having lost the ability to physically force people to attend, does the next best thing: use the power of the state to prevent people from getting the things they want and need from anywhere else.
Chaplains. In schools. Mandated.
Jesus Fucking Christ....
This can't be legal, please tell me this isn't legal. But this is Texas and Trumpian American so who the fuck knows. Ugh, it's too early in the morning to be this angry.
Got problems? MORE JESUS!!!
Seriously? It's not as though they don't have enough Jesus in the Lone Star State as it is. They've got a dentist on the school board, insisting that creationism be taught instead of evolution. There's the usual crap about thoughts and prayers every time someone with an AR-15 decides to run amok at a Walmart or a school. Governor Abbott leans on Jesus as though he were a member of his administration ... and NOW they want bible-thumpers instead of trained counselors?!?
If I lived in Texas (and I don't, though at times, I think Mike DeWine wants to take Ohio in the same stupid direction!), and I had a kid in school, I would be screaming bloody murder about this ... and I hope Texas residents 𝗗𝗢 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧.
As a Texan who grew up in these schools and has kids in these schools, I can honestly say that I have absolutely no doubt that as terrifying as this shit keeps getting, something is about to break. It’s too much of everything all the time. They are putting fascist pressure on so many areas at once that the ven diagram of cross over is almost just a circle. At least I’m hoping it’s too much. Maybe I’m being absurdly naive.
It will end well, it's not like there was hundred of cases of rape and abuse by priests.
No chaplain in French public schools and a lot less schools shooting than in US but yes forced christianity is THE solution 🙄
When considering this, I feel it would behoove the lawmakers to remember that several religious organizations have had some serious issues in the school-age bracket for a while now. The state would still be responsible for putting chaplains in the school building, in the unfortunate event that something happens.
Which it will, when Texas does this. We all know they're not going to set up any kind of vetting process, they're just going to assume it's Jesus so that makes it okay.
Aaaand... let the child abuse begin!
Texas lawmakers attempt to expose children to unqualified demagogues and pedophiles instead of providing any actual help or resources despite a budget surplus.
It's unethical, rankly immoral, and a perfect example of Christianity's treatment of children.
Someone explain to me why, exactly, we as a species haven't toppled every fucking church and thrown these sanctimonious narcissists into a ditch somewhere?
Someone has to polish the 10C plaques.