It seems like every day, I see something I have to shake my head at and wonder where in the H-E-Double Hockey Sticks we're going as a country. Yesterday, the FLOTUS handed a "Women of Courage" award to a transgender "woman". I guess that's par for the course these days since Bruce Caitlyn Jenner won the Arthur Ashe Courage award a few years back.
Today, I read a piece where an Arizona school district's Board voted to cut ties with a Christian College, who they had a contract with. The contract was to allow students from the College to intern in the school district, which could obviously open up opportunities for teaching positions once they graduate. Here's the reasoning, and who was making the main argument to end the contract. copy/pasta foxynewz
The controversy erupted after board member Tamillia Valenzuela's and another board member's comments at a February meeting.
Valenzuela said, "My concern is when I go to Arizona Christian University's website, [they are] ‘committed to Jesus Christ, accomplishing his will and advancements on earth as in Heaven.’"
"At some point, we need to get real with ourselves and take a look at who we're making legal contracts with and the message that is sending to our community. Because that makes me feel like I could not be safe in this school district," she said.
Valenzuela describes herself on the district's website as "a bilingual, disabled, neurodivergent Queer Black Latina… who loves a good hot wing (but only with the right ranch) and things that sparkle." She also frequently wears cat ears.
So, you don't feel you would be "safe" if there were some Christian teachers in your schools? And the people of that District thought the best candidate for the Board was a bilingual, disabled, neurodivergent (I have no clue what that means) Queer Black Latina, who wears cat ears? And yes, she does wear cat ears to the Board meetings.
I just.....