Category: Education
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Demand is made to ban the Book of Mormon after Bibles were removed from some schools in Utah
IN MAY, 2022, Utah wrote into law House Bill 374, which sought to remove “sensitive materials” from from schools and school libraries, Soon after, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) reported that Utah had been “hit hard” with a flurry of book challenges. It is no surprise that graphic novels like Fun Home, Flamer, and Gender Queer are among…
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Three key figures in Texas’ Chaplains Bill stand out as far-right Christian extremists
A CO-AUTHOR of the Bill—passed this week to allow public schools to replace professional counselors with unlicensed chaplains—is Senator Mayes Middleton. In a recent statement, Middleton—widely described as a Christian nationalist—declared: Our founders certainly never intended separation of God from government or schools, despite the lefts’ attempts to mislead people on this fact. The statement…
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Evangelical teacher who espouses abhorrent biblical views is banned indefinitely from classrooms
JOSHUA Sutcliffe, above, who believes that homosexuality and Islam are “abominations” and that people who sin should be put to death, has been banned from teaching. Labelled “intolerant” by the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA), the bigoted street preacher was this week found guilty of unprofessional conduct and banned from teaching in any capacity indefinitely. The…
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Holocaust school text books are the latest to fall foul of Florida’s anti-education laws
GOVERNOR Ron DeSantis’s administration’s crackdown on “woke” teaching and “indoctrination” took a worrying new turn when it was reported that two new Holocaust textbooks have been rejected, and another— The Hebrew Bible— was compelled to alter a passage. Modern Genocides was rejected, in part, for its discussion of “special topics” prohibited by the state. The…
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Florida’s wacky Governor set out recently to woo young evangelicals. Now he’s in the UK, but to what end?
EARLIER this month Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis told 10,000 ecstatic Christian students at Liberty University in Virginia that his state—a “refuge of sanity” and a “citadel of freedom”—was where “woke goes to die.” DeSantis, who positions himself as a defender of “God-fearing” people, often refers to putting on “the full armor of God”—a biblical…
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Texas Taliban wants the Ten Commandments inflicted on all public school pupils
WHEN it celebrated its Independence Day in March 2022, Texas’ godly Governor Greg Abbott posted a video to Twitter in which he claimed that a Ten Commandment monument on the Capitol’s ground was a “testament to to the values and ideals that helped shape the great state of Texas.” The former Attorney General boasted that…
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Claiming that ‘homosexuals are invading the Church’ is not homophobic, bleats sacked evangelical lecturer
Dr Aaron Edwards, above, a father of five, was dismissed for misconduct by Cliff College, a Methodist college in Derbyshire, after he was accused of bringing the college into disrepute on Twitter. He now making suing noises. EDWARDS, 37, is “considering his legal options” and believes the college has discriminated against him by breaching its…
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‘Call me a Nazi’, says pastor who vows to rid Texas of all ‘immoral’ books
IN 2014, blowhard Baptist preacher Rick Scarborough, above, said God would be justified to nuke America for having gay ambassadors. A year later the self-declared “Christocrat” vowed to set himself on fire if same-sex marriage was legalised – and he urged like-minded pastors to shoot themselves if such a horror were ever to befall the…
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Attendance at religious classes in Victoria slumps by a stupendous 99 percent
A WHILE back the state did a very smart thing. It scrapped religious education from schol classes. Now the non-mandatory classes, called Special Religious Instruction (SRI)— are held during lunchtime and before and after school. The move, according The Age, has seen attendances at these classes plummet by 99 percent in a decade. This is…
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Being gay is a ‘choice’ says Christian mother who is suing a London school
Recent comments Central London County Court is expected to rule soon on a case brought against Heavers Farm Primary School in Croydon. Izzy Montague, above, alleges that her son, aged four, was “forced” into taking part in an LGBT+ event in 2018 and claims that being gay is a “choice.” The bigot’s case, which began…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 