Christian conservatives won control of the school board of the Temacula Valley Unified School District in California. The first thing they did was enact a ban on critical race theory (no doubt they could not define what they banned). A lawsuit was filed by the teacher’s union and a group of students against the board to overturn the ban. The board accepted an offer from a law firm called Advocates for Faith & Freedom to represent the district. The law firm is known for its religious advocacy.
A nonprofit Murrieta law firm with a reputation for defending Christian conservatives will represent the Temecula Valley Unified School District in a lawsuit challenging the district’s ban on critical race theory.
In a special meeting, a divided Temecula school board Wednesday night, Aug. 9, accepted an offer from Advocates for Faith & Freedom to defend the public school district against the lawsuit announced Wednesday, Aug. 2, by Public Counsel’s Opportunity Under Law project, which is suing on behalf of the Temecula teacher’s union and eight students in the district, among others.
The lawsuit, filed in Riverside County Superior Court, alleges the critical race theory ban “hinders Temecula educators’ ability to teach state-mandated content standards, prepare for the coming academic year, and support rather than stifle student inquiry.”
The Temecula school board’s conservative majority — Joseph Komrosky, Danny Gonzalez and Jen Wiersma — enacted the ban the same December night it took office, roughly a month after winning three of five board seats with the backing of conservative Pastor Tim Thompson and a Christian conservative political action committee.
At the time, the majority said critical race theory — originally a term used to describe a graduate school course of study — was hateful and divisive and taught children to judge others by skin color, not character.
Critics argue the ban whitewashes truthful and important lessons about the role of race in U.S. history. The ban sparked two walkout protests by district high school students.
Advocates for Faith & Freedom specializes in representing Christian conservatives and their causes. It fought on behalf of California Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage before being overturned in court.
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These CRT bans are designed to inhibit any presentation or discussion about race in public schools. The irony is that CRT is not taught in public education, but these vague bans are intended to intimidate teachers and restrict any legitimate discussion about race. Once the bans are in place boards of education or citizens are emboldened to challenge any references to race or civil rights including posters that may be on the walls in classrooms. CRT bans are trying to interfere with and restrict teachers from presenting any material related to race in a classroom, and they force teachers look over their shoulders and walk on eggshells when presenting any material about race or civil rights. If this happens, it is a victory for right wing extremists.
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Exactly! As if teachers didn’t already have a path of egg shells.
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Seems the Temecula Board wants there to be posters on classroom walls of heterosexual, cisgender, White bros. ““She was crying because she was being asked to come to the principal’s office because of posters she had in her classroom.” Sounds like they want teachers to put up posters that say WHITES ONLY.
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Is anything stopping the
teachers from a
“mother may I?”, to their
“boss”, the superintendent?
Put the super on the hook…
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There are a lot of people in the US who are CINO (Christian in name only)
These people obviously slept through all the Sunday gospel readings because they have no clue what Jesus Christ taught and stood for and are simply filled with hatred for any of their neighbors who are not like them (white , straight, well to do , fake Christians)
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Russell Moore , editor of Christianity Today
[My concern] was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching—‘turn the other cheek’—[and] to have someone come up after to say, ‘Where did you get those liberal talking points?’
“And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, ‘I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ,’ the response would not be, ‘I apologize.’ The response would be, ‘Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak.’ And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.”
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Jesus was woke.
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Yes, but look what that got him.
And I suspect if he came back, the folks that the pastors quoted would treat him the same way.
They are a very hateful vengeful group of people.
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At the Orange (California) Unified School District Board (OUSD) meeting on June 20, 2023, the majority conservative trustees declared defiantly that they are going to violate any laws which they do not agree with. They are the law.
OUSD has been through this before: In 2001, after years of turmoil from right-wing trustees, the community recalled three of them. But now their proteges are on the board because the community became lax…but the community has launched another recall.
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Reactionary xtian theofascism is what those board members are a part of.
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These board members call themselves Christens, but I do not think they are. I know some real Christians who live by what Christ taught. These board members are fascists who may call themselves Christians who do not practice what Christ taught.
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