If there are, they’re remarkably silent about it. Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans, Baptists and Catholics certainly have enough institutional power to collectively and forcefully advocate for the separation of church and state.
“Interviewer: What are the days you cannot work?
Job Applicant: I am unable to work Sundays, because that is God’s day. I am in church from 8am -3pm, and after I do volunteer work at the food bank until 6 pm.”
REJECTED: Everything was find until the “food bank” thingy – fucking socialist!
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Thank you for hiring Michigan Leadership Institute, Koch brothers. They are dumping millions into thousands of local political entities. They know that trickle-down doesn’t work…Put the money in at the bottom rung…Push right wing conservatives into these jobs and you will gain more control of the population.
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The school board chairman brought up the need for a strong Xtian, and the board members and consultants fell into line. Putting it in the ad, and the resulting s–t stormfromt gets free publicity and the raptourous attention of all the unemployable incompetent middle age white evangelical Protestant educators, who will be the only ones to apply. The chairman gets what he wants. The consultants get paid. The kids get a crap education and abolish public school in their county when they get to voting age. Ah, the circle jerk of life.
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No, they’re not. You just choose to ignore them. Over 90% of blacks, 70+% of Latinos and Asians vote Democratic, so clearly they don’t agree with the white, Evangelical Christians who get all the attention. But the argument you’re making is exactly the same argument Republicans repeatedly make about Muslims, that they all must somehow be in agreement because the good Muslims aren’t speaking up.
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The city of McBain may only have 565 residents but the McBain Rural Agricultural School District is a consolidated district with more than a thousand students. The district’s current budget lists 2014 sales from all sources as $8,790,970. That’s where it gets the money for two consultants.
BTW. ACLU: Art VI, ¶ 3?
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They are not happy taking taxpayer money and giving it to private sector cronies to indoctrinate our children while not educating them, but they have to take over the public schools to do the same…it’s never enough with extremists.
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If there are, I have managed to never hear even one of them say anything. Much like I have never heard a republican complain about racists in their party. I take that back, I have heard a few complain, but have never heard a Christian doing the same. I am sure someone somewhere does, but I honestly have never heard it.
“One of those consultants took responsibility for the listing later that day, apologizing and saying it reflected ‘poor judgment’”
Teatroll Rosetta Stone: “My mistake was publicly stating it. We should’ve just applied those criteria and tried to hide it.”
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But of course these people aren’t Christians. They have no resemblence to anything it is thought came from Christ.
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Al Sharpton, Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, the Pope, Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Melissa Harris-Perry, Lawrence O’Donnell, Alex Wagner, Jesse Jackson, Bill and Hilary Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama, Jimmy Carter, Nancy Pelosi, Joe and Jill Biden, Chris Van Hollen, Elizabeth Warren, Dannel Malloy, the vast majority of the Democratic Party and the left wing, etc. The fact that you haven’t heard Christians speak out against this mess is because you aren’t listening.
TPM Headline: Public School District Posts Job Listing Looking For ‘Strong Christian’ Leader
Well, it must have been posted by a Conservative who LOVES the Constitution:
… no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
But, much like the “good Muslims”, for the most part they do so as individuals rather than with any organizational leaders speaking up, and even as individuals they rarely do so explicitly as Christians, making the point from that perspective.
How many Episcopal bishops have spoken out about social issues or church-state separation the way Timothy Dolan, Raymond Burke, and other Catholic bishops have? Can you even name an Episcopal bishop who is not Gene Robinson? I can’t, because I’ve never heard of any others speaking publicly. Half of Catholics are liberals or Democratic-voting moderates, yet even leaving aside the conservative leadership, there’s no liberal public voice for them along the lines of Bill Donohue. There is absolutely no progressive equivalent of the public voice of evangelical leaders like James Hagee, Pat Robertson, Rick Warren, etc.
About the only pastor who speaks regularly in favor of church-state separation is Barry Lynn, and as the head of AU he generally couches his speech in broad language about Constitutionality rather than framing it as why Christians should support the First Amendment too. As a result a lot of people think the “Rev.” in front of his name is from a UU or other non-Christian church.
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Moo?
We should send in a fake resume for Mohammed Goldberg, a black man who just moved to the area with his life partner.
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The thing is we know that, for example, Barack Obama is a Christian. He’s spoken up time and time again against religious extremism and has been excoriate for it, and yet there are still so many on the left who claim they’ve never heard a Christian speak out as if neither Obama nor Rev. Sharpton exist or aren’t vocal about their religious beliefs.
As for an organizational standpoint, many pastors speak up from their pulpits every Sunday. They just aren’t given a national platform from which to speak nor are they sought after by the MSM. Nobody is seeking comment from someone saying something reasonable. Nobody in the media is reporting what Rev. Kevin Cosby thinks. They want to hear from the bomb throwers and the nuts. Pastor Joe Phelps of Highlands Baptist Church has spoken out extensively against religious extremism and right wing ideology, but if you don’t live in Louisville you may have never heard of him. That isn’t his fault nor his organizations fault. It’s the MSM. They’re not going to report, “Hey, this Christian said something totally reasonable” because the vast majority of American Christians aka the vast majority of Americans don’t think like the extremist given a platform from which to spout hate.
And that’s far more likely to be because our side believes in a separation of church and state. Outside of black activist religious leaders, the left very rarely elevates religious leaders to such prominence within our party, but many within the left wing grassroots are religious leaders that never receive an iota of national attention.
To me, it’s just plain ignorance. That one can ignore all the leaders I listed and pretend that Christians aren’t speaking out against Christian extremism is just stupid. I shouldn’t have to say, “I’m a Christian and …” I expect more from Democrats and progressives. Maybe I expect too much.
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“One of those consultants took responsibility for the listing later that day, apologizing and saying it reflected “poor judgment.””
Yes, obviously a bad idea to insist on a strong Christian. The new listing reads “Christian leader wanted, 97 pound weaklings welcome to apply!”
I’m guessing that the ad was placed by someone who (a) was using “Christian” to mean a normal decent person; and (b) is so deep in the bubble that he/she didn’t realize they weren’t synonyms.
In other words, someone who really needs to spend time with people who aren’t Christians.
I don’t know, I think a person who prays silently and privately, who does their charity anonymously so as not to call undue attention to themself, who has compassion for the sick and the poor, who loves their enemies, turns the other cheek and works cheerfully and tirelessly as if they worked for the Lord Himself, would be an ideal candidate.
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Silence implies consent.