Dallas Express pushes for an invasion of homophobic Chaplains into the public schools
I will be publishing a plan for parents and students to resist this invasion should their school district accept chaplains.
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The Dallas Express push for school chaplains and who is part of the push.
The title of this report is, “Chaplain Bill Vote Deadline Nears for ISDs,” Michele Greer, Jan. 13, 2024. (I will put a link to a background post on Dallas Express at the end.)
https://dallasexpress.com/education/chaplain-bill-vote-deadline-nears-for-isds/
It is about a law, SB763, which allows for Chaplains to take on positions as mental counselors. The text of the law is at this link.
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/pdf/SB00763F.pdf
All school boards are required to vote on whether to have school chaplains or not by March 1, 2024, so this is an effort to push for a favorable vote for school chaplains.
The Dallas Express reports that the effort is about “non-religious support,” and quotes a statement by the National School Chaplain Association. The National School Chaplain Association asserts that they will be working relieve mental health issues. However, if you check the National School Chaplain Association’s predecessor websites and the statements by their leader, you can see that it is a plan to have an invasion of the public schools for a religious agenda. A homophobic one.
The National School Chaplain Association is approved by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. They have theological requirements, which are more generally stated, but with some deep dive research you can see what their agenda consists of.
Further, the third person whom he quotes to justify this invasion of the schools is the notorious homophobe, Dave Welch.
I have talked earlier that where ever this plan is adopted, it is a serious threat to LGBT students.
In the Dallas Express article they say that Carroll ISD will allow them if they meet the same requirements as the licensed guidance counselors. Likely the persons wanting to be school chaplains don’t meet this requirement, and so Carroll ISD is saying yes, but with the requirements that make it unlikely there will be an school chaplains.
The Dallas Express article tries to make this an issue of the low performance scores. Of the schools implying these chaplains will raise test scores. I doubt that people who deny geology and evolution are much good for school studies.
Dallas, Frisco, Plano, McKinney have voted to not allow chaplains. Allen ISD, Keller ISD, Fort Worth ISD, and Grapevine-Colleyville ISD have allowed unpaid school chaplains. So there are school chaplains that will be permitted in the DFW and North Texas area. The struggle against Christian homophobia is directly in the schools.
The plan to resist this effort.
Though there has been debate over whether there should be school chaplains or not in Texas, there hasn’t been any discussion of resistance by students if their school board adopts school chaplains.
I think generally the school chaplains need to be discredited with the school body and their presence in schools should be disrupted. In no way and I advocating disorderly content, but the credibility of these Evangelicals needs to be undermined and their presence should be disruptive to the school.
The efforts of the evangelicals should be blocked and the school boards who voted for them regret their decision.
I don’t have an immediate plan to propose here, but I will be writing up a plan and publishing it.
I will have a link for it here.
This is why we need to have an organized campaign against homophobic Christianity. The current program of sentimental feelings isn’t doing it. This is the link to the paperback version. There is a kindle also.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSFP9TQ6/
