Trump’s Education Secretary Pick Wants To Make Christianity A Bigger Part Of Schooling

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Religion plays a major role in the way Betsy DeVos thinks about education.

Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, spoke at a 2001 conference with her husband, Dick, about using educational philanthropy to promote their conservative Christian worldview to children.

The conference was hosted by The Gathering, a group of elite Christian philanthropists. Researcher Bruce Wilson, co-founder of the website Talk To Action, unearthed the audio after going through archives on The Gathering’s website. The recordings have since become unavailable, but a cached version of the website lists the DeVoses as “general session speakers” at the conference, which carried a $1,200 per person registration fee.

This week, The Huffington Post had contacted spokespeople for DeVos, the Trump transition team and The Gathering to confirm that it was the president-elect’s education secretary pick speaking on the audio. No one responded. However, a summer 2001 newsletter that The Gathering published, and which Wilson obtained, also confirms that they were set to speak at the group’s upcoming conference.

During the question-and-answer portion of the recording, Dick DeVos can be heard lamenting that the “church, which ought to be, in our view, far more central to the life of the community, has been displaced by the public school as the center for activity,” Politico also reported on Friday.

He goes on to say that he hopes churches get more involved in education, whether through school voucher programs or other mechanisms. Churches, schools and families should become more tightly built around a “consistent worldview,” he adds.

During the panel, Betsy DeVos insists she and Dick aren’t enemies of traditional public schools, but are rather “for good education and for every child having an opportunity for a good education.” Yet the comments she and her husband appear to have made at the event suggest this could come at the price of blurring the separation of church and state.

Hear comments from the full panel here.

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I firmly believe that the very first step in spreading "Christianity" should be to provide credible proof of what it's based on - other than mythical "faith". Our public schools should demand proof before allowing the subject to ever be discussed.
 
Religion plays a major role in the way Betsy DeVos thinks about education. :banana:

Oh...and elections have consequences :D
 
Christianity is a cult and has nothing to do with education. It is like religious schools in the middle east...It destroys knowledge and free thought.
And yet we allow muslims the freedom to practice, preach, and violently enforce their "religious" values on Western society?

We don't dictate "Western society", dickhead. And no one condones violence.
 
This bitch needs the "separation of church and state" shoved up her "...whatever". Her brother is the founder of Blackwater, the security company that made gazillions off the Iraq War and got thrown out of Iraq for shooting a bunch of civilians in Nusoor Square. They are whores. And total hypocrites.
Ex-Blackwater contractors sentenced in Iraq shooting - CNN.com

She is not her brother. For all you know, coulda been a brother from a different mother........
 
This bitch needs the "separation of church and state" shoved up her "...whatever". Her brother is the founder of Blackwater, the security company that made gazillions off the Iraq War and got thrown out of Iraq for shooting a bunch of civilians in Nusoor Square. They are whores. And total hypocrites.
Ex-Blackwater contractors sentenced in Iraq shooting - CNN.com


There is no separation of church and state. That is not in the Constitution. Perhaps a little schooling with or without religion in it would be of benefit?
 
Keep religious nuts out of our public education system!
So, how do you feel about islaamic prayer-room set-asides?

This country allows for all religions, asshole. Don't like it, join Bannon, Trump's main man and the Alt-Right.
Nice, so I'm and asshole because I pose a simple question?
Why, then, are christian businesses targeted by assholes like you and muslims are touted as peace-loving, even as adherents to your "religion of piece" are running over innocent students and slicing them up like Sunday's roast are given a pass?
 
Christianity is a cult and has nothing to do with education. It is like religious schools in the middle east...It destroys knowledge and free thought.
And yet we allow muslims the freedom to practice, preach, and violently enforce their "religious" values on Western society?

We don't dictate "Western society", dickhead. And no one condones violence.
OK, pretty clear what type of dickhead you are. Name-calling is the resort of those who have nothing more to offer. Thanks for you input.
 

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