Kansas House bill invites chaplains to deliver Godly counseling to public school students

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Source: raw story





Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector
February 20, 2024 4:41PM ET



Rep. Bill Rhiley proposed the Kansas House pass a bill granting public school districts the opportunity to hire unlicensed chaplains or welcome volunteer chaplains to serve as trusted Biblical advisors and Godly counselors to students, teachers and staff in school buildings.

Rhiley said the legislation was a slimmed-down version of a Texas statute adopted in 2023 that similarly gave school districts the option of bringing on chaplains even if they lacked a state education license. He said appointment decisions would be up to local school boards in Kansas, but he preferred districts follow guidelines of the National School Chaplain Association or a comparable organization rather than policies developed by the elected Kansas State Board of Education.

He said mental health challenges experienced by educators and students were linked to a disconnect from spirituality. He said calamities of bullying, low self-esteem, depression, peer pressure, anxiety and violence could be deflated through direct intervention of chaplains with faith-based advice.
“In this era of conflict, discord and loneliness, the role of chaplain has never been more critical,” said Rhiley, a Wellington Republican who has served in the House since 2019. “Chaplains will be in schools as a moral compass and a moral spiritual guide.”

Skeptics of House Bill 2732 pointed to the one-page bill’s failure to include language setting a prohibition on proselytizing about theology. The bill elicited concern it would resemble a Trojan horse enabling evangelical Christian activists the chance to recruit in public schools. The bill didn’t feature provisions enabling students to request chaplains from a specific faith or denomination. ................

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Repugs just keep pushing and pushing.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Atheists need their own ordination just to compete

That would put a stop to this brainwashing fast.

[rurallib]

3. that is an interesting concept

I can almost hear the brains exploding.

[The Grand Illuminist]

25. More emboldenment than brainwashing.

Many of them were forced in by their parents.

[DBoon]

26. I'm sure the Satanic Temple would be very interested

[rurallib]

2. Priestly counseling led to attempted rape in my life

keep the church and the sate separate

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Paging Freedom from Religion Foundation.

[eggplant]

5. Calling The Satanic Temple...

[Gore1FL]

6. This sounds like a job for Lucien Greaves and The Satanic Temple!

https://thesatanictemple.com/

[Permanut]

7. They will want to include the Godly advice in Genesis 19:32-35

"Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father."

[AllaN01Bear]

9. they should also see the sep of church and state segment along with treaty of tripoly re sec 14

[Permanut]

15. Roger that, and the Danbury Baptist letter.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. they the rs keep shoving the same stuff on us over and over and over again.

dont they get it? gah

[dalton99a]

10. High school teenagers can't wait to have some Bible thumper tell them what to do

and when to have sex

[pfitz59]

11. Letting potential pedo 'ministers' into school

sounds like a great idea. part of the counselor certification process is extensive background checks and close evaluation of methodology. Letting 'Brother Billy Bob' go one-on-one with troubled youth is sure fire disaster.

[TomSlick]

12. The easy cure is for rabbis and imams to volunteer

The program will collapse like a house of cards.

[slightlv]

14. I highlighted the statement that really raised my hackles...

"The bill didn’t feature provisions enabling students to request chaplains from a specific faith or denomination."

This keeps the rabbis and imams, as well as pagan counselors, etc., from even volunteering without being thrown out the front door. -Of course- this is a direct affront to the 1st Amendment. Any student that refuses counseling from these "preachers" will not be looked upon kindly, and probably singled out for intensive counseling on pain of being kicked out of school. At this point, these states (and KS is mine) don't care if it's blatantly unconstitutional or not. The Theologists are going to have their way, and the constitution be damned.

*rump is dangerous, there's no denying it. But these people are in positions now, thanks to R's through the years and D's who just went along with previous placements, to do real and lasting damage. These are the people who want to turn our country into a Theocratic nation, ala Iran. And they're achieving their goal and people are so blase at it, that's what's worrisome.

[republianmushroom]

13. Keep your kids protected from the three "C's".

[Rhiannon12866]

16. What did happen to "the separation of church and state??"

Wasn't "religious freedom" one of the major reasons that our first immigrants came to these shores??

[SamKnause]

17. These Christian fascists get on my last nerve.

I don't believe your bullshit.

Prove your imaginary friend exists or shut the fuck up.

[Bettie]

18. So, this gives those "youth pastors" a larger

pool of kids to abuse?

[Owl]

19. Yuck

[limbicnuminousity]

20. I've seen this movie.

It was the prequel to Children of the Corn, right before the children cannibalize the adults out of self-defense.

[LiberalFighter]

21. Personally I would like any minister accepting such an offer to suffer severe consequences.

[samnsara]

22. cant the FFRF get involved? Theyve got great lawers...

*Freedom From Religion Foundtion

[EarnestPutz]

23. I've been to a few weddings where the groom's best friend/college roomate/younger brother has obtained a.....

......mail-order minister's license so he can officiate at the ceremony. This is just another reason why this will backfire on Kansas, though just the thought of a Catholic/Jew/Hindu/Muslim/Satanist/Woman counselor will probably be enough discourage some school boards.
Edit: Are there snake-handlers in Kansas, or is that more of a Missouri thing?

[Conjuay]

24. Does it allow non believers

To go out Into the hall and have a smoke while all booggly- boogly is going on?

[DBoon]

27. I suspect any student opting out would get severly beaten by other students

I almost specified "male student", but then realized female students are just as apt to administer a beating.

[kimbutgar]

28. Way to open the schools up to Pedo's

Sexually repressed men around young teens! What could go wrong?

[Zincwarrior]

29. Texas does this

This was recently enacted in Texas as a substitute for counselors.
At time of writing I do not believe any schools have done that option.

[TexasBushwhacker]

30. It's voted on in each district

It was just voted down in Willis, which is pretty red.