NYC Mayor Adams is against separation of church and state

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“When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools.”

— NYC Mayor Eric Adams (D) speaking at the New York Public Library interfaith breakfast


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9:59 AM · Feb 28, 2023

[onecaliberal]

1. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

[Srkdqltr]

2. What church?

[Martin Eden]

13. Good Question, and here's what I say to "conservatives" on this issue:

Do you really want the government (local, state, federal) dictating what kind of prayers your children recite in school, and from which religion?

Do you realize that could very well include prayers from the Jewish and Muslim faiths?

[gratuitous]

3. Eight and a half million people in NYC, and the voters chose Eric Adams

Do better NYC. Please.

[brooklynite]

7. NYC is heavily Democratic; it is NOT heavily liberal

Adams was elected in large part by support from ministers in African-American central Brooklyn.

[gratuitous]

10. There's nothing "liberal" about the First Amendment

But perhaps the folks who got Mr. Adams elected aren't acquainted with the more arcane nuances of the Constitution. For a city that styles itself as the ultimate in cosmopolitan sophistication, NYC can be as parochial as any backwoods holler.

[brooklynite]

12. Take a look at a map...

Most of NYC is not “cosmopolitan” Manhattan below 110th St.

[electric_blue68]

18. It was also our First Time using Rank Choice Voting in the Primaries.....

So it was a bit challenging, and an extra stressful year for me that I concentrated a lot less than usual on the candidates till the 2nd to last day of voting. I put him 3rd bc I didn't care that much for some of the others to put them down at all.

I really wanted Maya Riley to win, and put her first.

Then he was running against Curtis Sliwa so, yeah.

[brooklynite]

28. I didn't put him down at all...I could see the problems coming.

[markpkessinger]

26. This is what Ranked Choice voting got us . . .

I was a supporter of ranked choice voting. It sounded great in theory, but the results sure as hell are not convincing!

[brooklynite]

29. So a voting system is bad because you didn't like the result?

Under the old system we would have ended up with Adams v Garcia (Maya Wiley was never going to be in the top tier). Adams was still likely to win.

[markpkessinger]

33. I didn't say that . . .

. . . I said I was unimpressed by the results. I stand by that.

[onecaliberal]

31. They also gave the house to republicans.

[NYFlip]

32. I know

I didn’t vote for him in the primary. He bamboozled a lot of voters. In the general election it was him or the guardian angel We had very little choice.

[Polybius]

37. Sorry

It's hard to find a good Mayor here.

[IbogaProject]

4. He was a Repub 95-02

Adams was a registered Republican in the late 1990s and early 2000s
According to Politico, Adams was a registered Republican from 1995 to 2002. And according to City Limits, Adams said in 1995 that Republican values aligned with those of some Black voters, and by 1999, he was labeling himself a conservative Republican.

[electric_blue68]

19. Oh! Didn't know that. Bah!

[kysrsoze]

27. How people didn't recognize him as a trojan horse is beyond me.

[LowerManhattanite]

46. YUP. And as a cop at the time, especially a Black cop...

…a sure way to grease the skids for moving up in rank was to be vocal about being affiliated with the GOP, which a lot of rank and file do to curry favor with the NYPD’s longtime conservative brass.

[IbogaProject]

47. He came in w ranked choice primary

So his share of our primary vote was small compared to the total electorate.

[Polybius]

48. That's actually shocking

During those times, he founded 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, and was always fighting against police brutality against minorities. He was absolutely hated by the right then. Bob Grant used to bring him up regularly.

[Scrivener7]

5. Didn't we take prayer out of the public schools around 1850?

I thought it was Bishop Hughes who brought the suit because he didn't want Catholic kids to have to say Protestant prayers in school.

If I'm right, that's an awfully long lead time for this cause and effect.

[former9thward]

22. No, 1962

The Supreme Court decision against official school prayers was Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962)

[Scrivener7]

35. OK. But still, awfully long lead time between cause and effect.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. What kind of correlation is THAT??

By Adams' "logic," if we return the children to praying in school, all the guns would magically disappear????

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. The Venn diagram of people who want school prayer and oppose gun control is a circle

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[Caliman73]

9. Such childish crap.

He certainly has the mindset of a Conservative. Simple and stupid answers to complex problems.

Really, it was the exact moment when prayer was "taken out of school" that guns came in? OR, and just hear me out, school shootings started to increase as the stressors in society, driven by economic problems, that impact families ability to take time to be with their children, when consumerism was promoted and pushed, where community ties started breaking down, when the media started breathlessly reporting on school shooters and the tragedies which gave people the power and notoriety that they craved, AND the proliferation and promotion of guns and violence as redemptive in our society; MAYBE, just MAYBE that had more to do with it than fucking "prayer".

Prayer was NEVER taken out of school. Kids can pray all they want. Teachers can pray all they want. What they CANNOT do is impose prayer on each other.

[kimbutgar]

11. From his early days I haven't liked him and this stupid comment backs up my dislike of him

No dummy, guns violence increased when they took away the assault weapons ban.

I’m glad I don’t live In New York City.

[budkin]

14. Worst NYC mayor ever

This guy is a fucking embarrassment.

[Duppers]

34. +100

[NYFlip]

36. I agree

+200

[Polybius]

38. Bloomberg the best?

His first term was elite.

[Meowmee]

44. This

How was he allowed to even be a candidate? Ugh.

[Easterncedar]

15. He's a corrupt hypocrite

[AntivaxHunters]

16. This guy needs to go

He needs to be voted out. He's a DINO for all intents & purposes

[spanone]

17. If the mayor thinks prayer keeps gunners from killing, he needs to go now.

Such bullshit from NY mayor.

[Sky Jewels]

20. Oh FFS!!!

[Wounded Bear]

21. Yeah, right. I'm sure that's what is behind all the school shootings...

[Solomon]

23. For the millionth time, nobody "took prayer out of the schools". Kids pray every day

in school, -- to escape the bully, -- to pass the test, etc. All day, every day.

Idiots.

[Samrob]

24. Our problems have more to do with taking prayers out of homes, not schools. No matter what god you

choose to serve, prayer or meditation and just plain parental compassion guidance is what is missing from homes. Anyone can "pray" wherever they want to and no one else can stop you. Parents should stop depending on schools to do what they should be doing at home concerning raising decent children.

[Nevilledog]

25. Many of us live our lives free from religion, just saying.

[Samrob]

39. Not suggesting lives have to include "religion" just humanity and decency taught by parents.

[jalan48]

30. What's up with New York Democrats?

We lost seats in the 2022 election that could have given us control of the House and now Adams is sounding like a Republican Christian fundamentalist?

[phylny]

40. I grew up in New York.

We never had prayer in school.

I'm 64 years old.

[Rhiannon12866]

41. Sorry, Mr. Mayor, it's the law

[dsc]

42. Make no mistake about it

the God in schools crowd are the same people who want LGBT people out.

[Skittles]

43. I can't stand that guy

UGH

[LowerManhattanite]

45. A pandering, cop-fellating embarrassment.

But…it was him or the conservative, crazy cat-lady Sliwa, so we opted for the lesser of two evils. 🤷🏾?♂️