A Florida school board paused plans for a chaplain program after receiving First Amendment concerns — and interest from The Satanic Temple.

A Florida school board paused a plan for a chaplain program after receiving First Amendment concerns — and interest from The Satanic Temple.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    139·
    2 months ago

    Fast-forward nearly four months, and the school board voted 3-2 to take the policy out […] “I need more time to make a decision,” said Heather Kahoun, the board chair. “I haven’t had an opportunity to think about these things, to think about the implications regarding the First Amendment, regarding federal litigation that we could receive if we were to approve this as it is today.”

    Someone this stupid shouldn’t be on the school board. All of these issues were raised during the initial fight over the bill, it’s for months since the bill was signed, and now she suddenly needs more time to think though the implications? Idiot.

    • Worx@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      109·
      2 months ago

      Or she’s lying because she can’t say, “only Christian ministers are allowed”

        • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          28·
          2 months ago

          Especially not an organization that was specifically created to exploit those religious loopholes. Who could’ve seen that coming?

          • DominusOfMegadeusEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            “It’s super fucking important that I make everyone else believe what I tell people I believe, by any means necessary, for no apparent reason.” - these asshats I guess

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        2 months ago

        As does anyone who treats religion more seriously than Santa as an adult…

          • TheDoozer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Yeah, Santa is nice and brings me presents. He doesn’t send an angel to kill my livestock, kill my family, and torture me just to see if I’ll still thank Him for it.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      She’s not stupid, she’s backpedaling because she didn’t think the Satanists would actually roll out.

      The thing about Christians is that they’re so certain they’re right, it never occurs to them that some people don’t believe as they do. Hell, look how some of them view atheists. We really do believe in capital G God, we’re just in rebellion.

      They’re literally unable to comprehend the idea of “no god”, unable to comprehend that any right-minded person would be offended by religion in schools. Notice how they have to enter a purpose-built echo chamber every Sunday to keep their faith shored up?