Yep, just gotta get God back in the classroom. That's the answer! Because God will certainly stop the lunatic with the AR-15--just like God stopped that guy who shot up the church in Texas. Well, God WOULD have stopped him, but God was busy or something.
But, yeah--let's bring in unlicensed and unscreened "youth pastors" to help counsel troubled kids. It's a great idea! At least until you Google "youth pastor" and find out that so very many of them turn out to be sexual predators.
Ouch. I’ve heard a few people make the excellent point that the religious right is NOT so much anti-sex per se, it’s anti-sex that isn’t patriarchal and heterosexual. I think that’s correct. Also, they seem to be unable to resist the temptation to put the pedophile fox back into the henhouse.
I wasn’t sure where this was going (I’m not that quick) but today’s REBID killed two birds with one satirical stone, the unlicensed pedos, er, pastors put in charge of counseling vulnerable students, and the possible the state’s desire to eradicate transgender people. Both skeevy and fascist! Actually, the two go hand in hand.
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Thanks, Roy. I needed a good laugh this morning.
Still trying to choke back my rage after doing clinic defense at Planned Parenthood Saturday morning. Had two Black women - mom and daughter - who drove up from Texas. Twelve hours, all the way to Kansas.
For a pregnancy test.
It's apparently no longer safe to risk such tests in Texas unless you plan on carrying to term. Otherwise it's not something you want on your record in Texas right now, particularly if you're a Black woman.
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Oof, just oof -- I watched a Tiktok with "highlights" from the House discussion on this one: apparently, the law doesn't stipulate any qualifications or even define what a "chaplain" is.
Here's a thought: male clergy that wore literal dresses, a lot of make-up, and elaborate 'dos.
They could counsel children by reading stories to them for about an hour; to avoid the sorts of things described here, they could do so in a very public place, a library would be convenient.
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Thanks to Roy for this bonus content on a federal holiday. Roy delivers when the post office doesn't! And thanks for broadening my musical horizons with Minsky Pickup. There's a Walker Percy essay about how we don't really know a thing until we know it's name (I think he was talking about our obsessive naming of birds, do we really know any more about a bird because we can say it's a yellow-rumped warbler? Percy thought we did, something to do with how our brains work.) Anyway, in my own brain I'll be filing Minsky Pickup right next to Wilhelm Scream.
To a true believer, God is already in classrooms. What's missing is religious indoctrination, whereby -your- kids are forced to believe in -their- God, and if you don't like it, tough.
I'm a fan of dialect done well, and stuff like this:
"Ye ever think ‘about what’d be lahk to hev bress?"
Yep, just gotta get God back in the classroom. That's the answer! Because God will certainly stop the lunatic with the AR-15--just like God stopped that guy who shot up the church in Texas. Well, God WOULD have stopped him, but God was busy or something.
But, yeah--let's bring in unlicensed and unscreened "youth pastors" to help counsel troubled kids. It's a great idea! At least until you Google "youth pastor" and find out that so very many of them turn out to be sexual predators.
Well, now, this one’s right up my religion confusion alley.
Actually, I was sort of thinking maybe Roy’s entitled to the day off, but this one’s worth it.
Ouch. I’ve heard a few people make the excellent point that the religious right is NOT so much anti-sex per se, it’s anti-sex that isn’t patriarchal and heterosexual. I think that’s correct. Also, they seem to be unable to resist the temptation to put the pedophile fox back into the henhouse.
(Yet another Texas program destined to have its head burn incriminating documents in a dumpster behind his office.)
I wasn’t sure where this was going (I’m not that quick) but today’s REBID killed two birds with one satirical stone, the unlicensed pedos, er, pastors put in charge of counseling vulnerable students, and the possible the state’s desire to eradicate transgender people. Both skeevy and fascist! Actually, the two go hand in hand.
Thanks, Roy. I needed a good laugh this morning.
Still trying to choke back my rage after doing clinic defense at Planned Parenthood Saturday morning. Had two Black women - mom and daughter - who drove up from Texas. Twelve hours, all the way to Kansas.
For a pregnancy test.
It's apparently no longer safe to risk such tests in Texas unless you plan on carrying to term. Otherwise it's not something you want on your record in Texas right now, particularly if you're a Black woman.
Twelve hours. For a pregnancy test.
This fucking country . . .
Anybody else get an overwhelming urge to deconstruct all those anagram names up there just to discern Roy's hidden messages?
Oof, just oof -- I watched a Tiktok with "highlights" from the House discussion on this one: apparently, the law doesn't stipulate any qualifications or even define what a "chaplain" is.
I fear for the children of Texas...
Those Qanon people are all over groomers and pedophiles. Like white on rice ( or their membership)They will have this straightened in no time!
I've never understood why a woman would need a special bra just for doing push-ups.
Running, sure…what, do the cups form some sort of protective plastron?
Here's a thought: male clergy that wore literal dresses, a lot of make-up, and elaborate 'dos.
They could counsel children by reading stories to them for about an hour; to avoid the sorts of things described here, they could do so in a very public place, a library would be convenient.
Thanks to Roy for this bonus content on a federal holiday. Roy delivers when the post office doesn't! And thanks for broadening my musical horizons with Minsky Pickup. There's a Walker Percy essay about how we don't really know a thing until we know it's name (I think he was talking about our obsessive naming of birds, do we really know any more about a bird because we can say it's a yellow-rumped warbler? Percy thought we did, something to do with how our brains work.) Anyway, in my own brain I'll be filing Minsky Pickup right next to Wilhelm Scream.
Forget how many laffs I had. I just learned what a "Minsky pickup" is! Thanks, Roy!
"returning God to classrooms"
To a true believer, God is already in classrooms. What's missing is religious indoctrination, whereby -your- kids are forced to believe in -their- God, and if you don't like it, tough.
I'm a fan of dialect done well, and stuff like this:
"Ye ever think ‘about what’d be lahk to hev bress?"
...just slays me.
(Not to mention the terrific pun in the title.)