Republicans, Christian nationalism and religion in schools

Just another reason why I love living in California.  The chances of this happening here are slim to none.  I can't fathom why "intelligent" people would live in one of these F'd up backwards states.

Check out this group on Instagram. You will get a lot of info about how far right but jobs are trying to ruin public Ed in CA as well as within city council positions.

It's mostly that city but they talk about other southern CA cities as well and all the connections as well as connections to larger groups out of state.

Weird. I would be more inclined to say some study of the bible as literature, at the appropriate age, is necessary for understanding some of our great art and literature. Students also need to be familiar with Greek mythology for that reason. (Imagine the outrage if a school offered a course in "Christian mythology" instead of the bible. So many pearls would be clutched!)

I don't think the bible necessary for understanding the founding of our country at all. That's just their bullshit. A good understanding of history - including religious absolutism and persecution - and Enlightenment philosophy is far more important. 

Mine used to be purple/but now more blue. I don't think I am a blue state snob. I can't imagine living in a lot of states, but that isn't due to politics as much as weather and cost of living. (I know our cost of living is cheap either.) 

I feel fortunate to live where I do, but mainly I feel bad for the citizens of your state who will suffer under some of the laws they have passed. I think it would be very stressful to have daughters of child bearing age. I feel a great deal of urgency to get Kamala Harris elected and as many blue legislators as possible so that they codify Roe. The Texas grid stresses me out when it makes the news. 

In Minnesota we saw on our local news just how quickly Wisconsin went from being a blue state to being a red state that made it about impossible to elect Democrats to their state legislature. It has taken a lot of work and time just to win seats on their state Supreme Court. They have one Democratic senator, but they re-elected Ron Johnson two years ago - so disappointing. They have a Democratic governor but they’ve made it so hard for him to exercise power. They are purple and working their way to blue, but it takes so long. Minnesota was about 12,000 votes away from losing all three branches of our state government at the same time. We elected a Democratic governor that kept us out of that situation. Things can change quickly with one bad election. 

Hey, I live in Connecticut, a reliably blue state. And yet last year, in my well-educated, upper-income town, we had an attempted book ban led by Republican school board members, who quietly tried sneaking their beliefs into policy, efforts which stemmed directly from Moms for Liberty.

So I wouldn't be so smug about where you live. The people who do this are sneaky little weasels who take advantage of peoples' busyness and sadly, apathy. Busyness and apathy aren't just in communities like mine; they're also in the "F'd up backwards states" you criticize. 

Once their tactics were exposed, people came out in force to oppose their efforts, and the three ringleaders resigned from the board.

The school board president was just ousted, but narrowly. The vote was 51% to oust him. People forget that it is mainly the coastal areas of California that are blue. And these areas tend to the have the largest cities. San Diego County was red until only about 20 years ago. Lot of the east county is still very red.

As someone from Florida, I get it. Morons for Liberty is very active here, but if I leave, which I won’t, who will fight them?

I object to Christianity being shoved down everyone’s throats. However, I have always said that students should have to take a comparative religion class where they study ALL religions in an academic context. We studied Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in Social Studies class and it made World History make a lot more sense. In DD’s elementary school the Jewish, Hindu, and Buddhist moms came and talked about their traditions. Then the Christian moms came in demanding equal time by having a birthday party for Baby Jesus and they shut it all down. They had a living encyclopedia and the God Squad f*&$ed it up for everybody. 😡

I live in what is considered a blue state, but has some very definite red strongholds including one I was gerrymandered in to which gave me a Trumpy rep who paid for a bus to head to DC on J6. He ran for governor and lost, thank goodness. But in more than one county, Moms For Liberty is trying to get booked banned in schools. They ran 3 candidates for school board here. 2 didn't make past primaries, but the worst did, so she'll be on the ballot this fall. The religious right is loud and they will take over anywhere, even in safe blue havens so we need to be vigilant.

My MIL is a teacher in OK and she sent a text yesterday saying there will be a bible in each classroom starting this year, so she also brought a bible from home. I didn't really know how to respond to that. DH took up the conversation into how was the beginning of school looking questions. But OK Peas, what's the plan other than mandating a bible in classrooms? Is there a curriculum? Teachers can decide for themselves? How quickly can you boot Ryan Walters out?

I don't care what religion people want to believe in, but pushing those beliefs into public schools is ridiculous. The hypocrisy knows no bounds and I'm really sick of it.
 

I know MAL will go under before most of the rest of us!!

He will never be welcomed back into NYC!

He wears more makeup then Kamala Harris does!!

But mostly projection!

CA did not give us RR by itself.  It had the help of Republican voters in 43 states.
The majority of the people in these states chose to vote for RR of their own free will.

There are problems in every city, every state, and every country and cities outside the US.  There
is no such thing as perfection when humans are involved.  It’s not in our DNA.

Let me ask you a question, assuming you own your home, when it comes time to sell it, are going try and get as money as you can? Even though you will be cutting people out of the market that can’t afford your price? I’ll answer the question for you.  The answer is yea and you should.   You would be doing exactly what blue states are doing.  The big difference is the CA has the third highest average wage behind MA and NY while TX average wage is I believe in the 20’s somewhere.  Developers, homeowners, and landlords will always try and get as much as they can from the sell of or from the rent in a rental unit.  Meaning they will be aiming for the higher wage earner.  Which shuts a lot of folks out of the home buying and rental market, in and out of the state in question.    The trick is to fix it without flooding the market with homes and rental units without causing the value of existing homes and rental units to drop.

As far as NIMBY’s go, they can be a royal pain in the ass.  And I’m sure you have NIMBY’s in your neck of the woods.

The biggest problem with government, on all levels, are the voters and the choices they make including not voting.  It’s that simple.

And that is why I have a problem with the voters in red states that vote for trump and the current crop of Republicans.  It’s these voters that have the potential of fucking up this country to the point there won’t ever be another election, not two years from now, not four years from, not ever.

What I think is the current Republican Party needs to be destroyed and rebuilt to party that wants to govern and not be one that is only interest is grabbing power any way that they can. Which is the goal of the current gang running the GOP.

I’m old 😀 so most of my teacher friends in Oklahoma are near or past retirement. This is what they circulated on FB after Walter’s made his announcement:

“ Hallelujah! Thank you to my creative friends for all these great Biblical math problems. They'll really help the Oklahoma school superintendent's goal of inserting biblical content into math and science! I've collected a multitude of the problems into one post for ease of reading:
1) Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines (1
Kings 11:3).
If he lay with one wife or concubine every night, but took off one day per week for rest, how many days would it take him to lay with all of his wives and concubines?
2) David captured the foreskins of 200 Philistines
(1 Samuel 18:27).
If David split those foreskins into baskets of 40 foreskins each, how many baskets would he need?
3) The prophet Elisha summoned two she-bears to kill 42 children after they mocked him for being bald (2 Kings 2:24)
One she-bear mauled twice as many children as the other she-bear. How many kids did each she-bear maul? (Use fractions)
(Courtesy of Margo Evans)
4) Jael killed General Sisera by driving a tent peg into his skull. (Judges 4:21)
If Jael could hammer 1.5 inch per blow and the peg was 9 inches long, how many blows would she need to drive the peg all the way in?”

Blaming people for not moving diminishes any argument. If you’re sheltered enough to not understand professional, economic or family reasons then please know some people stay and work for change.