Posted on 01/10/2017 1:02:05 PM PST by heterosupremacist
The Senate is expected to hold hearings next week on Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education. As soon as he announced his choice on November 23, anti-school choice activists attacked her.
The ACLU immediately went on the offensive warning that “private and parochial schools” would benefit. Such a condition it said, “perverts the bedrock American value of separation of church and state.”
There is a reason the ACLU never mentioned the “bedrock American value” of religious liberty. When it was founded in 1920, it listed every right incorporated in the First Amendment as one of its top ten priorities, save for freedom of religion.
Ever since, it has worked tirelessly against this right, the exception being the religious rights of prisoners, Muslim extremists, and the like.
Also attacking DeVos on the day she was nominated was the Interfaith Alliance.
It is so opposed to religious liberty that it has tried to stop the installation of war memorials honoring veterans if they mention God.
Its opposition to the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act, which defends marriage between a man and a woman, showed its ideological colors.It has also tried to censor me: in 2010, it joined with other left-wing groups lobbying TV producers never to invite me again.
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One of Trump’s picks is under fire?! Say it ain’t so!
“perverts the bedrock American value of separation of church and state.”
Easy fix: Junk the Dept of “Education”
Problem solved.
Ya, he’ll be ‘under fire’ for one thing or another for the next 4 yrs. Get used to it and the next over used word ‘outraged’. What we wont hear is ‘unexpectedly’ unless it in regard to something that worked out better than planned...than again the MSM would never report that.
Time for someone to enlighten the Fraud’s propagandists as condescendingly as possible that there is NO “separation of church and state”.
(Especially for the FRAUD and his chosen people — they are one and the same under allah).
Thanks to their god in the white mosque, there’s been no separation of powers, so it’s understandable for many Hussein-Head worshippers to have no clue as to what’s actually in the Constitution, but that’s still their problem.
it’s all about keeping crappy teachers indoctrinating children in failed schools.
DUH! REWEE!?
If not you’d know he made a bad pick
Under fire from who? Liberals?
Who cares. Just ignore them.
Good idea. Consolidate several departments together into one, and reduce their budget drastically.
I was thinking maybe call the new dept "Health, Education & Welfare," or HEW for short. :-)
(Younger FReepers won't get that one).
Sit down and shut up
Am I wrong or did the founding fathers NEVER say “separation of church and state”?
No established religion by the govt.
That doesn’t mean a Godless govt.
I recall many of the founding fathers thinking God was rather important in the success of the nation.
Her hearing was postponed to next week. Anyone know why?
education reform is of paramount importance, don’t let her be borked.
I would. To cut through the bullsh1t, issue an EO for immediate elimination of Dept. Of Education, then push a bill through Congress if necessary to get it all legal and tidy.
I am waiting for some R Senator to say: ‘we confirmed a Communist for the SCOTUS for Obama......this lady doesn’t even come close to that!’.
How about ‘Dept. of Health, Education, Welfare, Public Housing, Environmental Protection, Energy, Interior & Land Management, Intelligene’ and give it to one guy named Vinny.
Just for fun trump should nominate Hillary for some useless cabinet position.
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