Texas strikes again- this time it's chaplains Iin public schools

[Danmel]

Lawmakers in Texas have passed a bill that could allow chaplains to work in public schools as soon as the 2023-24 academic year.

Texas House members passed Senate Bill 763 on Monday which will permit school districts to hire chaplains. Unlike school counselors in the state who must have master’s degrees and two years of classroom teaching experience, the chaplains are not required to be certified by the State Board for Educator Certification.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/05/12/texas-legislators-pass-bill-allowing-chaplains-to-work-in-public-schools/70212321007/

[dalton99a]

1. Because teenagers are thirsty for religion.

Good luck with that shit

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. they will go from just having the Chaplain on school grounds, to required sessions with

Chaplains

[Bettie]

9. So, basically "Youth Pastors"?

In the schools?

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

15. uh oh

[edhopper]

2. Make no mistake what this is about

This is about counselors helping Gay and Trans kids.

Chaplains will not help Gay and Trans kids in trouble, they will preach that they are going against God and need to "get right".

[Timeflyer]

4. What could possibly go wrong? The pandering politicians pushing this don't care about the kids.

Indoctrination, shaming, grooming, preparing the ground for the GOP theocracy--the dangers of this kind of infiltration of religion into public schools is terrible. Would they let a Buddhist chaplain do this work, or Muslim, or Satanic Temple chaplain?

[Golden Raisin]

5. I'm sure including Imam's, Rabbi's, etc. from other non-Christian faiths.

[Sneederbunk]

6. Should have a priest for last rites.

[dalton99a]

7. +1. A heavily armed and armored priest

[303squadron]

8. Isaac Asimov quote FTW!

"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. "

[lastlib]

10. I gotta remember that one!

Asimov has been one of my favorite authors since high school.

I've always thought of The Insurrectionist Rapist as "the Mule" from the Foundation Trilogy.

[Mr.Bill]

16. That makes sense.

Most of the Atheists I have met went to some sort of parochial school. Most of them Catholic. To this day I thank the Catholic schools who apparently taught me to question things.

[Hortensis]

11. Some churches, notably some evangelical and/or fundamentalist,

require no training or certification of those who self-select themselves for ministry.

What could (will) go wrong? I'm sure teen suicide is epidemic in TX as in other states. And, of course, fields that provide special access to vulnerable victims are very popular with sociopaths.

[spanone]

12. A 'normal' SCOTUS would shut this down....not sure about these criminals.

[Chainfire]

13. I hope they don't have to do background checks either.

[kimbutgar]

14. I see some bad things happening with those who preach and are also sexually repressed around

teenagers.

Texas is really now an insane state. I know people who live there because the cost of living is cheaper and I get it but I would have left the state under Abbott and the repukes.