Ohio Governor John Kasich fucked up making "religious extremist duty"
mandatory in Ohio.
American children, and their parents for that matter, should be thankful
they live in a nation that prohibits religious indoctrination in the
public school system. In many
islamic countries, the government forces
religious instruction on every student using taxpayer money that is just
the price those poor people pay for living in a harsh theocracy
controlled by religious extremists.
Of course, the religious leaders in countries like Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and many others assert that “
faith plays an important role in shaping the lives of young people,” and their justification for forcing religion on students is because “
dog has a purpose for each and every one of them (students) and we’re helping them find it.” That is the
case
in wide swathes of Syria and Iraq where the islamic state (ISIL) closed
down “infidel schools” and forced teachers to undergo religious
instruction training or lose funding, and likely their lives, unless
they learn to teach religious extremism. Many Americans are likely
thinking, “
thank dog we live in America where that kind of religious edict is illegal and un-constitutional,” but they would be wrong in thinking America is not on pace to become a harsh religious theocracy.
Obviously, there are christian extremists in America
who believe, like the islamic state extremists, that it is the
government’s duty to force religious instruction on public schools, and Ohio Governor John Kasich made that “religious extremist
duty” mandatory in Ohio. Kasich issued a statement through a spokesman
informing Ohio schools that if they fail to align with christian covens, they will lose funding. It should disabuse any American
of the idea that this sad country is exceptional; unless they consider
theocracy a la ISIL exceptional.
A new mentoring
program
funded with taxpayer dollars requires ALL Ohio school districts to
become partners with a faith-based coven (cult) and a
corporation in order to have access to the public school money. The
initiative is the brain-child of delusional religious repugican Governor John
Kasich and provides funding to mentor at-risk students, but only if the
schools allow a church and corporation to control the program. According
to the initiative, “
failure to incorporate a faith-based non-profit
(christian cult) will eliminate a school district’s eligibility for
the taxpayer funding.”
When asked why Kasich is forcing public schools to
spend taxpayer money for incorporating religion in schools, his
spokesman said, “The governor believes faith-based covens
play an important role in the lives of young people. The dog has a
purpose for each and every one of them and we’re helping them to find
it.” And, any Ohio district that thinks for a second that using
taxpayer dollars to insert religion in public schools is wrong will not
get funding. ISIL leaders would be proud of Kasich because there are no
exceptions according to one of Kasich’s theocratic 'advisers'. The United
Way of Greater Cleveland President Bill Kitson said if any school
district expects taxpayer dollars for their program, “You must include a faith-based partner.”
Another one of Kasich’s theocratic underlings, and
senior policy analyst for the Ohio Department of Education, Buddy
Harris, broke the good news to a gathering of cult agitators
that they are now firmly entrenched in, and will soon control, public
education. He said that any school district’s application for taxpayer
money must include a corporation and place of worship in its
partnership. According to Harris, any “partnership” that dares exclude a faith-based group (church) will not qualify for public school tax dollars because “faith is clearly at the heart of the vision of the governor.” Translation; religion runs the program with corporations, and schools are subject to oversight of the “senior partners.”
Kasich’s theocratic initiative is part and parcel of the religious right fundamentalists’ “
Onward christian Soldier” campaign to
eradicate “
deviant
schools and replace them with institutions that will propagate christian family values by issuing government edicts that all education
will be handed over to the cult,” and funded with taxpayer
dollars. It is now the law in Ohio that joins several other religious repugican states using taxpayer dollars for public schools for christian religious instruction in private, charter, and public schools.
Sadly, since the vatican-5 on the Supreme Court deconstructed and
demolished
the Establishment, Separation, and Free Exercise clauses in the First
Amendment, there is little redress for any American opposed to their
child suffering religious brainwashing against their will. Despite
the, soon to be abolished, provision that public school dollars could
not be used to pay cults to control curriculum and indoctrinate
students, repugican governors and legislatures across the nation are
violating the provision with impunity. Like the Internal Revenue
Service’s abject fear of challenging evangelical clergy violating their
501 c tax-exempt status by campaigning from the pulpit, the Department
of Justice, state and federal, are terrified of enforcing the law
because of the unwritten mortal sin prohibiting challenging evangelical christians.
In states such as Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas,
to name but a few, repugicans are blatantly funneling public school
money into religious instruction with impunity. In Louisiana, for
example, the State Supreme Court ruled that religious Governor Bobby
Jindal’s scheme of diverting public school funding to private religious
schools is “unconstitutional and violates the Louisiana Constitution.”
However, since Jindal refuses to acknowledge that the state, or
federal, Constitution has supremacy over theocratic edicts, the taxpayer
dollars continue flowing freely for religious brainwashing.
In fact, across America, taxpayers are spending
over $1 billion
on religious brainwashing in public charter schools alone with no
government accountability due to the official terror of violating that
despicable “
unwritten mortal sin.” It is that government fear of theocrats that empowered Ohio Governor Kasich to force public schools to “
partner with” cults to qualify for taxpayer dollars for public schools; or in Ohio’s case, corporate christian madrassas.
If any American believed this nation is not rushing
toward an ISIL-like theocracy, with apparent government support, they
have been in a coma. Kasich’s move is the most blatant sign to date that
the U.S. Constitution, or Founders’ intent, prohibiting religious
control of the government or public education was a nice idea that will
likely be as extinct as secular schools are in Syria, Iran, and
Afghanistan.
and the Winter Solstice 
