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Eugene

(62,932 posts) Mon May 29, 2023, 09:58 AM May 2023

TX: Bill allowing chaplains in schools raises some concerns

Source: Austin American-Statesman

Bill allowing chaplains in schools raises some concerns

Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman
Sun, May 28, 2023 at 8:59 PM EDT·3 min read

The Texas House and Senate have approved a bill that would let school districts employ chaplains as a way to ease the shortage of counselors in schools, sending the bill to Gov. Greg Abbott to become law.

While some lawmakers and rights advocacy groups have raised concerns about the use of religious-affiliated staff in public schools, law experts say the bill skirts along a legal gray area concerning faith in campuses.

Senate Bill 763 would allow districts to employ chaplains or accept them as volunteers to provide support for students.

During the final House vote on the bill this week, Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, questioned the lack of requirements for participants in the chaplain program.

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TX: Bill allowing chaplains in schools raises some concerns (Original Post) Eugene May 2023 OP

Religion has nothing to do with education it is indoctrination. Stop it!! walkingman May 2023 #1

this disturbs me deeply. mopinko May 2023 #2

I'll bet they would never let a rabbi, or mullah, or lama, or brahmin vlyons May 2023 #3

Expect child sex molestation to increase. NCjack May 2023 #4

IMO this is just another incremental step anciano May 2023 #5

Texas is getting stupider than FL and that's saying something. Timeflyer May 2023 #6

walkingman

(8,742 posts)

1. Religion has nothing to do with education it is indoctrination. Stop it!!

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Mon May 29, 2023, 10:05 AM

May 2023

mopinko

(72,126 posts)

2. this disturbs me deeply.

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Mon May 29, 2023, 10:09 AM

May 2023

pretty sure ‘youth pastor’ is the most common career of pedos.
give these sick fucks a direct line to troubled kids….

vlyons

(10,252 posts)

3. I'll bet they would never let a rabbi, or mullah, or lama, or brahmin

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Mon May 29, 2023, 10:11 AM

May 2023

be one of those clerics. And if the school were in a rural evangelical district, a catholic priest need not apply. Can you imagine the number of law suits from competing denominations about descrimination towards their particular sect?

Would you want your child being advised by a Jehovah's Witness or 7th Day Adventist that they are going to hell for some this or that?

This bill is such a can of worms.

NCjack

(10,297 posts)

4. Expect child sex molestation to increase.

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Mon May 29, 2023, 10:26 AM

May 2023

anciano

(1,646 posts)

5. IMO this is just another incremental step

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Mon May 29, 2023, 11:44 AM

May 2023

toward the goal of implementing a theocracy.

Timeflyer

(2,809 posts)

6. Texas is getting stupider than FL and that's saying something.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon May 29, 2023, 12:38 PM

May 2023

But with the brain drains caused by GOP attacks on educators, and growing christofacist theocracy in GOP legislation, there will be need for people to fill school personnel vacancies in TX and FL. But pastors--they should have warning labels on their foreheads--may be hazardous to mental, physical, emotional health of young children if left unsupervised.

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