A Republican candidate for South Carolina lieutenant governor says Christians should remove their children from public schools.
“It’s our hope and prayer that a fresh obedience by Christian families and educating their children according to biblical commands will prove to be a key for the revival of our families, our churches, and our nation,” said Ray Moore, a retired Army Reserves chaplain and president of Frontline Ministries.
Moore told a gathering of Tea Party activists at the April 12 Liberty Rally that Christians must leave the “Pharaoh’s school system” for religious schools or home schools.
“We cannot win this war we’re in as long as we keep handing our children over to the enemy to educate,” he told the crowd.
So apparently this idiot has not heard that there is no evidence supporting the Biblical claim that the Jews were ever Egyptian slaves.
A fact that the children of South Carolina will never learn if this idiot gets his way, and convinces parents to educate them at home or to send them to religious private and charter schools in order to protect them from logic and facts.
Moore, who founded the Exodus Mandate organization and backs the “School Risk Audit” of LGBT tolerance in schools, claims 40 percent of public school students turn away from the church by the end of elementary school, and he claims that number jumps to 80 percent by the end of high school.
“It’s fundamentally and largely responsible because of the public school system we’ve had (for) six or seven generations, when most of us have put our children in the godless, pagan school system,” Moore said. “It cannot be fixed, the socialistic model, and we need to abandon that. As conservatives and Christians, if you think you’re going to win this war you’re in, and leave your children in those schools, it will not happen.”
That's the Republican way alright. Keep them stupid, keep them frightened, and keep them away from contradictory information.
Essentially if the Republican party hopes to survive THAT is the only way to make that happen.
So government is the enemy. He wants to join the enemy. Do these people care that they sound like idiots?
ReplyDeleteThere are christian schools and there are christian schools. There is Notre Dame and Georgetown and there Liberty University.apples and oranges.
ReplyDeleteSo basically this idiot will make money if children leave the public school system. Of course.
ReplyDeleteCan these people be any less attractive? They’re revolting. They have no charm. They cannot sway folks without fear, so fear is what they try to use. LGBT tolerance has to be audited? I wonder why he thinks about that so much. I can go for DAYS without thinking about LGBT tolerance, and I’ve done my share of auditing, but never that.
ReplyDeleteWHAT war? The one YOU created in your head!
ReplyDeleteRed States Hatch Plans To Block Obamacare Even If Dems Take Over
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I feel sorry for the people who live in those states. These men are monsters.
Like what is being done in Alaska w/Republican Governor Parnell? He is up for reelection and it's time he not be reinstated....get the Republicans out of office across the nation.
DeleteMoney is being put behind them (Koch brothers, etc.), but votes DO count. Get out the voters!
A ballot initiative that could make Alaska the third U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana will go before voters in a general election in November rather than in August as previously scheduled, officials said on Monday.
ReplyDeleteThe move means that a broader swath of the public is likely to vote on the issue than if it had gone before voters as scheduled during a state primary election in August.
Alaska ballot initiatives typically go before voters in primary elections. But a lengthier-than-normal state legislative session this year forced the change because, under state rules, initiatives must go to voters no less than 120 days after the end of a session.
Passage of the marijuana initiative would permit adults 21 and older to possess up to one ounce (28 grams) of marijuana for private personal use and to grow as many as six cannabis plants for their own consumption.
It would also chart a course for state-regulated commercial sales of pot in a framework similar to systems established by Colorado and Washington state after voters in those states became the first to legalize recreational marijuana in 2012.
“The date of the election is a non-issue for us because we know that Alaska voters support regulating marijuana like alcohol by a wide margin under either scenario,” said marijuana campaign spokesman Taylor Bickford. “We are confident Ballot Measure 2 will prevail in November.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/22/alaska-pot-legalization-vote-pushed-back-to-november-along-with-minimum-wage-hike/
The Alaska Legislature manipulated the date change on this voting issue. I watched them on TV this year - sessions and committee meetings. Republican majority and they voted every issue down (amendments) introduced by Democrats. It had to be rough for the people serving there as Democrats to know whatever they said on the floor would mean absolutely zero to the majority.
DeleteI hated watching it and plan to get folks out to vote and get as many Republicans out of their seats as possible.
Atheists on board!
ReplyDeleteRhode Island’s governor has declared May 1 a “Day of Reason” to recognize the state’s nonbelievers.
The Humanists of Rhode Island and the Secular Coalition for Rhode Island requested the proclamation, which the Friendly Atheist blog said is virtually identical to others signed by the mayors of Charlotte, N.C., and State College, Pa., and some members of Congress last year.
Providence, R.I., was named along with neighboring New Bedford, Mass., as the least Bible-minded metro area in the U.S. for the past two years, according to the second annual American Bible Society survey.
The proclamation claims the application of reason has “proven to offer hope for human survival upon Earth by cultivating intelligent, moral and ethical interaction among people.”
The secular groups say they’re planning events to coincide with the National Day of Reason, which are being held in parallel with the National Day of Prayer on the same day, to highlight the “persistent threat” to the separation of church and state.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/22/rhode-island-nods-to-nonbelievers-with-day-of-reason-proclamation/
"...obedience..." "...biblical commands..." ...the enemy..." "...WAR..."
ReplyDeleteSheesh!
Religion... selling an invisible product for 10% of everything you make, that you can't even know if it's real until you die.
Whatta racket!
I ,personally,have refrained from knocking these boneheads underpinnings out from under them as an act of mercy........now,I am beginning to see just how boneheaded they are......it ain't purty.....
ReplyDeleteThis idiot is just another reason for me to be embarrassed by my state! AND to guarantee I will be out voting come November.
ReplyDeleteWhat amazes me is that none of these idiots who claim that education is causing the losses to their congregations seem to even CONSIDER the possibility it is their own religion and the hatred being spewed from the pulpits might be the reason kids are dumping religion.
Everything's a war with these persecuted groups forced to go to public schools by the evil Government. Their tax dollars pay the teacher's salary, public school textbooks, maintenance and the administrator's salaries. Not to mention School Buses.
ReplyDeleteThey want vouchers (Government Handouts")
I'm pro choice when it comes to this, except for the voucher part, if you want to send your child to a special school, pay for it yourself AND support public schools. Hundreds of elderly and childless people "get it" and don't complain.
So, on the one hand, they want to keep wages and benefits SO low that families can only make it if both parents work. On the other hand, they want the kids to be home-schooled or put into more expensive Christian schools. Good luck w/that mofos. You can't have it both ways.
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