Secret phone call reveals Christian Right plan to 'take down the education system as we know it'

[Behind the Aegis]

Ahome-schooled lawyer has spent the majority of his professional career fighting public schools to no avail. They're harmful, he claimed, but his pleas have for years fallen on deaf ears.

But it seems that now that he has rebranded it as "parents' rights," the movement has taken off.

The Washington Post wrote a profile on conservative Christian Michael Farris that revealed a secret phone call showing the way that he is obtaining support from Christian millionaires. Farris made a name for himself by getting the story "Rumpelstiltskin" banned from classrooms.

Speaking on a confidential conference call, he told the group, according to one member, he sought to “take down the education system as we know it today" on the grounds that schools were indoctrinating children to be "secular."

To him, that's a "godless religion," even though being secular means to not profess belief in any specific religion.

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From the "Water is Wet" file.

[Timeflyer]

1. MAGAty rethugs in FL control the state, and now tax dollars can go to private religious schools thru

Educational Savings Accounts, with approx. $8000 per student, no financial limitations on family income, and who knows what religious nonsense they will "teach". The privatizers goal--privatize profit, socialize loss, and destroy public school system.

[keithbvadu2]

2. Plenty of religious education

https://www.joemygod.com/?s=youth

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Everyone is born secular -- only indoctrination can bring on religious extremism.

It's right there in the name -- "inDOCTRIN(E)ation".

He's just complaining about the WRONG -- i.e., "not my particular denomination" -- indoctrination.

[BlueWavePsych]

4. Shariya Law, coming to a state near you.

[treestar]

5. What problem did he have with

Rumplestiltskin?

[SouthernDem4ever]

7. he wasn't offering up a tithe from the straw spun into gold to the church

[UTUSN]

6. K&R