Posted on 09/13/2018 12:32:20 PM PDT by Liberty7732
For everyone wringing their hands about the lack of unity in our country, there was a shocking display of it this year — largely ignored by the media — on an issue of critical importance going forward: Exposing school children to our religious heritage
Back in March, in the waning days of the Florida Legislative session, black, female Democrat Rep. Kimberly Daniels stood to make the final pitch on a bill she co-sponsored with another black Democrat.
The bill: Require that all Florida public schools display “In God We Trust” prominently in their buildings, in a place where students will see it and perhaps want to talk about it.
In an unheard of display of unity between right and left, Republican and Democrat, male and female, black and white, Daniels rose on the House floor to speak and one by one Republican lawmakers (all of them white, male and female) went and stood behind her in support.
“Few would disagree with me that God is positive,” said Daniels. “He’s not a Republican, and he’s not a Democrat. He’s not black, and he’s not white. He is the light. And our schools need light in them like never before.”
Daniels went on, as more legislators stood behind her in support. She pointed out how we must “remind our children of the foundation of this country, which was founded on people who came for religious liberty.”
It was a powerful moment with whites and blacks, Republicans and Democrats standing together. When she concluded her remarks, she received a long standing ovation on the floor. And then the bill passed the House 97-10 vote.
And that moment got zero media coverage in a state smothered in major media outlets covering the legislative session. The law’s passage got some coverage, but not much. In fact, it was so ignored that I had to take a screenshot from the state’s C-SPAN equivalent taping the session to use with this story.
Secular leftists have long been trying to erase America’s religious heritage, and religion itself, as part of our exceptional nation. And they have had a depressing amount of success in the past 70 years. These battles have often been focusing on the public schools, because that is where the next generation is won over.
But what happened in Florida this past year represents a sharp counterattack in this anti-religion war. While Florida is the tip of the spear, five other states — Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas and Arizona — have passed laws mandating or allowing “In God We Trust” to be placed prominently in public schools. This all comes 56 years after the U.S. Supreme Court banned prayer in schools, beginning the long, deleterious march of squeezing all religious references from public education.
This move has flown under the radar largely because the media hyper-focuses on every breath of President Trump every day, and every leak and fake story regarding this or that alleged corruption or chaos, or every tell-all book. After all that nonsense coverage, there’s not much time left for actual news. And that, actually, can be a plus because we all know how this issue would generally be covered by the CNNs and New York Times of the media world.
In Florida, “In God We Trust” is also the state’s motto and is on the state seal. Of course, it’s on the nation’s currency.
Daniels’ law, passed during the Spring legislative session, has already gone into effect this school year. All of the schools have the signs up.
Of course the ACLU is not pleased and sees it as a separation of state and church issue. But they also have not been successful in other cases involving the phrase in public places. They are “monitoring” the public schools law in Florida, which means that they probably will challenge it at some point when the right case comes. Likely, atheist parents will use their child to go to the ACLU to get the courts to overturn what is obviously a very popular move. Status quo there.
What’s worth noting here is that this is not the least bit controversial with most Floridians, or probably in other states. Just with the elitist left. The Florida House 97-10 vote came during an election year for all of those representatives. That pretty clearly shows that politicians in both parties not only support it, but expect that their voters support it.
There are some attempts to gin up outrage and opposition, but they don’t have much umph behind them. The only hope for the leftists who want to control everything is the courts. That’s where they’ve had all of their success — not from the approval of the American people. That will certainly be tried and the media will undoubtedly be all over it at that point.
But right now, a battle has been won and convincingly. “In God We Trust” signs are up in all of Florida’s 4,269 public schools, and 2.7 million school children will see them and maybe start having discussions that have not been happening in our schools for generations.
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Not news.
A blog.
>>Not news.
>>A blog.
Are you defining “news” as only the received lies from CNN? He seems to be reporting on an actual event in Florida.
I define “news” as something which does not come from some individual’s blog.
If it’s a blog, we have a blog section for that.
This sure does read like news to me. In fact this is the only real news. First person reporting.
And since he posted the entire article you can’t hit him for being a blog pimp.
Liberty7732 did it right. Good job!!
It’s a blog, it belongs in bloggers.
Pretty basic really.
bttt
Wow. Ping.
It seems to be a distinction of no importance.
A blog is merely a reporter publishing his own reports. Cutting out the middle men so to speak.
If the blogger is publishing mere vanity or fake news then yes they should be scorned. We get enough of that from the mainstream media.
In this case, however, the blogger is publishing a credible report. This is better news coverage than we get from Fox news. Why shouldn’t it be in news?
After all, breitbart started as a blog. As did most conservative news sites.
This guy did it correctly. He wrote a good news article and posted the whole thing.
A car can drive on a runway.
That does not make it an airplane.
But a blogger can report news (and far better than the networks can). Does that make him a reporter or is he a blogger? Or both?
We have to avoid destroying the next generation of the conservative press just because they are independent of the main stream media.
Does that include any zitfaced wanker that can walk into a library?
Because that defines bloggers. Jerkoffs that read something and
re-write it, pretending that they are the source.
We are not talking about “any zitfaced wanker” we are talking about this one article.
Are you accusing the author or liberty7732 of plagiarism? Where then is the original?
You need to get past your hatred of all things blog related enough so that you can see that sometimes (perhaps rarely but still sometimes) a blog reports news.
I normally agree with most of your blog police posts. I figure if they don’t post the whole article they are merely clickbait and should be spurned. But liberty7732 did it correctly here and it is a good article to boot. Cut him some slack.
Amen
“Does that include any zitfaced wanker that can walk into a library?
Because that defines bloggers.”
“That defines bloggers”!?!?! Holy crap that is a small mind at work. Sara Carter is a zitfaced wanker? Andrew Breitbart was.
And “walk into a library”?? What are you, 107 years old? Geez, it’s 2018.
Did you come up with that in your mom’s basement, in your jamjams? (Yes, I did what you did, on purpose. Just making sure you got it.)
What if this blogger was a 58 year old long-time journalist who couldn’t take the progressive mainstream media any longer? Change anything for you?
Nah, you’re pasted into your position — maybe on a free desktop at the library.
Blah blah.
You saw it posted somewhere and then wrote about what you saw.
On your free blog, where you pretend to break awesome stories your own self.
Yay blogs and Yay you.
So lets say he did read about it elsewhere. Did YOU hear about it before? (I never did) We know the that mainstream media does not report stories like these. So how are we ever going to hear about it if someone doesn’t repeat it?
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