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Stewart is on a speaking tour about her new book, "The Good News Club," the name given to the afterschool programs of the Child Evangelism Fellowship, a Christian nationalist group.
With a 2001 Supreme Court decision that the free speech rights of children allow use of public schools as venues for religious indoctrination, the Child Evangelism Fellowship has set up a rapidly growing national network of the clubs that recruit and train children, aged 5-12, to bully their peers with threats that they will "go to Hell" unless they accept Jesus.
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At national conventions she attended, Stewart reported, leaders of these movements openly declared their intention to transform public schools into "Christ-centered" institutions and turn the U.S. into a "Christian nation." The Good News Clubs, she said, use their base in the schools for right-wing political campaigns against "the homosexual agenda," reproductive freedom, interfaith marriage, laws against bullying and the teaching of evolution and climate science. They also promote vouchers and undermine support for public education.
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alphafemale
(18,497 posts)after a few of these self-righteous, pasty turds have gotten an asphalt facial in the parking lot?
MisterP
(23,730 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)parents unite and have home schooling and teach freedom of religion in a secular country. Teach them evoluation, civil rights, and truth about history. Not the made up right wing rewriting of history.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Liberal Christians and liberal secularists should be forming their own private schools to teach progressive values.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)HillWilliam
(3,310 posts)they wouldn't have to be so sneaky, underhanded, deceptive, evil, and malicious to get it out. One of the hallmarks of a cult (yeah, I said it) is sneakiness.
There is absolutely zero difference in my mind between these wackogelical cultists and the Taliban. They have exactly the same goal: a "religion" that's the state that is the only religion. I despise the wackogelicals with a burning, purple passion.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Very well, little Timmy can evangelize about Jesus all he wants in the school, but so can little Mohammed about Allah and Islam, and so can little Raindrop about Scientology and so can little Billy about Satanism.
Them's the rules.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Emit
(11,213 posts)They and what they bring are insidious. Likely half those volunteers in the back haven't a clue the implications of their actions. Or ... maybe they do.
richmwill
(1,326 posts)One- churches, religious leaders, televangelists, etc. can from this point forward NO longer cry as they have about "God being taken out of schools, they no longer allow prayer in them, Christians are the most persecuted group in public schools, waaaaahhhh". Obviously we see this happening, so your prior points are now moot, null and void- you get the picture.
Two- I find it incredible that Christians will see this as a fantastic and wonderful thing, but God forbid any bit of a curriculum that teaches that gay people are humans too enters a school. Then they scream their lungs out about how "indoctrinating children is wrong". Such HYPOCRITES!!!