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 | 69 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 […]