School Chaplains pushed for DISD. Religious police to go after the LGBT? Update 1: Protect Texas Kids starting phone campaign.
This is an ominous development for the safety of the LGBT in the public schools.
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The Dallas Express and Protect Texas Kids have targeted the Dallas Independent School District
This was one report by Dallas Express where they are alerting conservatives that the Dallas Independent School District is going to vote that they won’t be employing Christian Chaplains as school counselors. “DISD To Bar Chaplains From Serving as Conselors,” Oct. 7, 2023.
https://dallasexpress.com/education/disd-to-bar-chaplains-from-serving-as-counselors/
Internet Archive link. (Give them a minute or refresh to get the pictures.)
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, a bill allowing chaplains to serve as counselors in public schools was passed by the Texas Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott. The bill also requires all public school systems to take a vote on the record as to whether they will allow chaplains to serve as counselors or not. [Boldface added.]
This is the link to the bill:
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/pdf/SB00763F.pdf
Also in the article:
Dallas ISD has drafted a resolution that will likely be taken up at a school board meeting on October 19.
This is a link to the text. DISD isn’t going to have chaplains as conselors in the schools.
The Dallas Express quotes a State School Board member.
“Chaplains would be huge for the mental health of our teachers just having a safe person to talk with or pray with or someone just to listen to them,” said Julie Pickren, a State Board of Education member and supporter of the chaplain bill. “It’s a huge benefit to our teachers [and] our children.”
How safe is an Evangelical homophobe for the LGBT students?
Will discuss this question in a later section of this article.
DISD is being targeted by Protect Texas Kids and the Dallas Express
This post on Aug. 17, 2023 has been updated since then documenting the attacks on DISD for being accomodating of LGBT students. They are against DISD student band playing at a Pride Parade. They want programs for LGBT students shut down.
So how would Chaplains in Schools function as religious police?
This is another quote from the Oct. 7, 2023 Dallas Express article:
“Chaplains would be huge for the mental health of our teachers just having a safe person to talk with or pray with or someone just to listen to them,” said Julie Pickren, a State Board of Education member and supporter of the chaplain bill. “It’s a huge benefit to our teachers [and] our children.”
In short these homophobes will be authorized to get involved with the personal lives of students. Remember, regardless of what graphics I use for this article, likely these Evangelical “counselors” will come across as understanding genial individuals. The Evangelicals have been developing a whole, “Love the sinner, hate the sin,” approach to going after LGBT.
What would happen is an LGBT student went to talk to the Chaplain counselor, maybe because it is the new thing to do on the school, or his or her friends are doing it, or curiosity or maybe because the child realizes that they are LGBT and want a person to discuss it with? Maybe a pray the gay away prayer? Maybe, notification of parents without the child’s consent, perhaps a parent who will be violent.
Maybe a student chatting on to the Chaplain will discuss other students and mention that another student might be LGBT. How might the Chaplain counselor act? Perhaps invite the student in for a friendly chat to probe? Perhaps contact parents to share his “concerns”?
Being in the school he might decide to monitor teachers out of “concern” for the students. Maybe monitor administrators also for the same reason. The Gay Straight Alliances will be likely rigorously monitored for the slightest thing that can be dramatized as a problem. Teachers who are advisors for the groups can be closely scruitinized and claims pulled out of the air and charged against them.
The curricula can be closely examined. Is Walt Whitman being part of the American literature class. Which authors are mentioned in the World Literature class or European Literature class? Probably the school library books will be examined closely.
Also, having a Chaplain in the school, can act as a focus in mobilizing homophobic students and parents to push an anti-LGBT agenda. Students beating up an LGBT student might feel they are doing “god’s work.”
The key thing is that the schol will no longer be safe for LGBT.
Update 1:
The post has a link which you can click on to call DISD. This is a screen capture. I will put the active links below.
VIDEO: Pride Parade Features Dallas ISD Band (dallasexpress.com) The video starts out with Pups marching.
https://dallasexpress.com/education/video-pride-parade-features-dallas-isd-band/
What should be our counter measure?
We need to stop the sentimental drooling and think it is a political program. We need to push aside those cosplaying being progressive so they can mouth sappy sweet statements.
We need a brass knuckles approach to homophobic Christianity. They need to be regretting what they do. Christianity has become vulnerable.
Currently the LGBT approach to fighting homophobic Christianity is nothing but a sack of sentimental rubbish. It is clown car babbling and gurgling sentiments instead of fighting.
We might also have some minimum expectation of the elected LGBT officials, who might stand up as LGBT officials on another day besides during the election season.
Omar Narvaez hasn’t been reported as having said anything about TX Rep. Matt Shaheen’s attack on Texas Latino Pride Fest. You would think he would be in the forefront speaking on this. Instead, crickets.
Until we have a serious movement with serious tactics we can expect continuing attacks on the LGBT in the DFW area. The opposition knows stupid when they see it, and certainly the current cowering leadership isn’t detering them one bit.
Later report in 2024 on the continuing campaign to put chaplains in the school.
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