The Religious Right Cheers The Destruction Of The Wisconsin Teachers Union

Christian Reconstructionists and Dominionists see unions as a socialist movement that is striving to turn America into a secular state and are un-American. According to Huckabee’s version of history, the Founding Fathers intended America to be a faith-based country that follows the Ten Commandments instead of the Constitution. Huckabee believes that, “America …was created out of the providence of God, because of the prayers of people who, on their knees, begged for a place where they could be free and raise their children in faith.” Whether or not the Founders got on their knees and prayed is not the issue, but they certainly did not mean for America to be a Christian nation or they would have written it into the Constitution.

All across the country Christians are making their play to move the country toward a theocracy and the Koch brothers are funding that movement vicariously. If they can break the unions once and for all, a governor can install the teachers they choose, and like Texas, rewrite history to support their distorted view of the origins of America. Union teachers are held to a standard that forces them to follow the Constitution and laws in each state that forbid religious teaching in public schools unless it is a specific course on religion. Christians would love nothing more than to eliminate unions and install their own unqualified teachers who will follow church doctrine instead of a state’s curriculum.

Wisconsin has the 2nd highest graduation rate in the country and it is in part because of union representation. Christians like Walker and Huckabee are using a fabricated budget deficit to eliminate the teacher’s union’s collective bargaining agreement with the state. If Walker was a true Christian, he would not lie and blame the state’s budget deficit on the teachers and their union. The union is not responsible for the shortfall, but they are willing to take pay cuts and restructure the pension plan they have with the state. Walker never mentions that the union is willing to negotiate lower wages, benefit packages, and pension plans. The union made the existing agreement in good faith, but Walker is unwilling to renegotiate because the union will still exist. Even if the union and teachers conceded everything that Walker demands, the deficit will remain.

The teachers in Wisconsin are fighting for the right to bargain and not to drive God out of the schools or to promote a liberal atheist agenda like Huckabee claims. Conservatives and Republicans’ biggest fear is that they will not be able to control the public with fear of a secular government like the Founders intended. The Koch brothers may want to break the unions to control the government, but Christians want the godless union eliminated so they can “tell the liberals that our rights, liberty and prosperity come from God.” As Mike Huckabee claims with utmost sincerity and conviction; Christians need to “fight to win back our schools” from the unions and radical leftists. Despite the rhetoric on the religious right, unions are part and parcel of freedom and the defenders of the Constitution and religious freedom in our schools.

http://www.politicususa.com/en/reiigious-right-wisconsin

And this is ugly but for those following the dominion crew not shocking. This is what they want, so a side benefit of getting rid of them pesky unions and public schools. Realize the movement to destroy public schools is NOT limited to these people... yes I am talking to you Arnie Duncan...

since the first revival...

The Koch brothers are certainly complete and utter scum and the enemy of humanity but I don't think they give a damn about religion. The fundies are nothing but pawns. I think soon we will see a rift between the titans of industry and the theocrats in the gop

to the Koch and the rest of them

…They would live ABOVE it, like the sheiks of Saudi Arabia.

thanks for the chuckle

I will fear no evil, for the Money God scratches my back with his millions

... I suspect that, in many cases, it is union negotiated rights to free speech in the form of an open forum for discussion that helps preclude, or at least make prohibitively difficult, the imposition from above of curriculum such as is being done in Texas—in non-RTW states.

Of course... the money behind the movement doesn't really give a shit about any of that. They just want access to all those dollars going into education... because they've imploded most of the other sectors of the economy with their deregulated bubble creationist predations... and this just happens to be a money stream that's caught their rabid raiders' eyes.

And, a few years after the privatization has hollowed out the public schools just like the old manufacturing base... when education is even more of a joke in the country, but some of the schools on the public dollar are able to kick out the "undesirables" (thusly creating a free private school system for the rich who currently have to pay out of pocket for it)... then the raiders will turn to privatization of prisons which will need to be built to house those who've gotten a shitty education from their privatized schools and can't find a job because they've all been outsourced (and all the wages of those who still have work have shrunk so much that they can't afford anything anyway, thus no job creation from that end either).

There might be some work available to teachers as contractors for the military... because they will obviously need to provide ancillary services to make the desperate recruits functionally literate in the aftermath... which will in turn provide another raiding ground for the capitalists...err, I mean the venture capitalists and Captains of Industry...

It's all so brilliant you could eat off of it... :+

The likes of Glen Beck will probably be explaining all along the way how Jeebus was a derivative trader who was held back by the ignorant... but he brought humanity derivatives of salvation, neatly packaged for celestial markets, with no money down. Step right up... for a limited time only...