Tag Archives: religious sabotage

Secretary of Education pick Betsy DeVos caught on tape, talking about defunding public education in order to “advance God’s kingdom”

By Mark | January 16, 2017

With the Senate confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, set to begin tomorrow, the folks at Politico just released a 2001 recording in which the Amway billionaire explains that her work to defund public education has been done in order to “advance God’s kingdom.” Her comments, according to Politico, were […]

Posted in Education, Politics, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized | Also tagged Betsy DeVos, Dick DeVos, dismantling of public education, for-profit charter schools, Gretchen Whitmer, Jim Fouts, Office of Government Ethics, public education, racism, religious extremism, separation of church and state, The Gathering, threats to public education, virtual charters, Warren | 68 Comments

The insidious threat of secular saboteurs

By Mark | October 21, 2009

Bill Donohue, the  President of the Catholic League, had the following to say in a Newsweek op-ed today. [Be sure to read all the way to the end.] …There are many ways cultural nihilists are busy trying to sabotage America these days: multiculturalism is used as a club to beat down Western civilization in the […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Religious Extremism, sex | Also tagged abortion, American culture, bathhouses, Bill Donohue, Catholic League, Catholicism, Catholics for Choice, conspiracy theorist, cultural nihilists, culture war, Ford Foundation, going cold turkey on abortions, insults against people of faith, moral anarchists, pro-life, radicals, religious freedom, secular saboteurs, secular-minded malcontents, secularism, the gay | 19 Comments

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