"The second half of the notorious sentence reads, 'in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards,' yet nowhere in the law does it define what is age or developmentally appropriate."
I think the key phrases here aren't "age-appropriate" or "developmentally appropriate", but "in accordance with state standards". The way that I read this part is that the State of Florida has educational folks designing curriculum and the like and it'll (likely) be those folks who decide what's appropriate or not, in the same way that Florida probably doesn't teach first graders about the Civil War.
Depending on your opinion of civil servants with domain-level expertise working in regulatory agencies, it makes the situation better or worse. If you're a fan of local schools deciding those policies, then it's a negative development as that authority is flowing upward toward Tallahassee.
If I were to make one change, I'd iterate the (obvious) intent of the law after the Eric Erickson quote towards the end: it's not a smear if the bill is, in intent and action, a "Don't Say Gay" bill.
Yep, POS EE lies about what the bill does to excuse his desire to paint liberals as pedophiles. Still want to pretend I didn't make the best choice possible in leaving that garbage religion of hate and stupidity?
I’d differentiate between what Christianity ought to be and what some people make it. I do sometimes wonder if some professing Christians believe what they say because they don’t act like it.
All that notwithstanding, they’re failings have no bearing on whether Christianity’s claims are true.
I've been around christians my whole life. Either directly or indirectly through family. I can count on my hands the number of people who have actually tried faithfully living their religion. The other hundreds were literal child molesters, racists, killers(manslaughter), adulterers, liars, frauds, rapists, and worst of all hypocrites.
Now I could chalk all that up to everyone being a sinner or mans fall or what have you. But I have watched those same people kick their child out of the house for getting a BJ. Kick a person out of their position in the church because of a prior marriage. I have watched them steal from the church, flee the country to avoid being arrested(on the churches dime) and I have seen them all cover up sexual abuse.
10 good people is not worth all that disgusting filth.
The fact that the world is full of sin doesn’t discount the truth of God’s presence as it’s own set of facts. And should the latter be true, yes, to God it’s worth all the disgusting filth for 10 good people. I feel like giving you a hug.
If the god of the bible were true and people legitimately had an encounter with him they would not be what they are. If not for love and respect and the rewards he promised then for avoiding a literal eternity in hellfire. Something is off.
He is and I have. I can also tell you that resurrections happen all the time. The “dead to sin” Christian’s sinful nature rises and many things, psychological stress, temptation, lack of Biblical knowledge, misunderstanding, lead people back to sin. I’ve done that too. I’ve come back from backsliding. Even when backslid, I believed. The human mind is expert in contradiction.
"Yep, POS EE lies about what the bill does to excuse his desire to paint liberals as pedophiles."
Don't forget that this isn't the first time Erickson's painted others with the pedophile brush[1], so he's already proven to be a Chicken Little on this topic. Looking forward to his "mea culpa" in a few years if the schedule for these kinds of things hold steady.
"The second half of the notorious sentence reads, 'in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards,' yet nowhere in the law does it define what is age or developmentally appropriate."
I think the key phrases here aren't "age-appropriate" or "developmentally appropriate", but "in accordance with state standards". The way that I read this part is that the State of Florida has educational folks designing curriculum and the like and it'll (likely) be those folks who decide what's appropriate or not, in the same way that Florida probably doesn't teach first graders about the Civil War.
Depending on your opinion of civil servants with domain-level expertise working in regulatory agencies, it makes the situation better or worse. If you're a fan of local schools deciding those policies, then it's a negative development as that authority is flowing upward toward Tallahassee.
Opening Day here for the Red Sox, but I believe you hit a Home Run with this post.
Great write-up.
If I were to make one change, I'd iterate the (obvious) intent of the law after the Eric Erickson quote towards the end: it's not a smear if the bill is, in intent and action, a "Don't Say Gay" bill.
Yep, POS EE lies about what the bill does to excuse his desire to paint liberals as pedophiles. Still want to pretend I didn't make the best choice possible in leaving that garbage religion of hate and stupidity?
I’d differentiate between what Christianity ought to be and what some people make it. I do sometimes wonder if some professing Christians believe what they say because they don’t act like it.
All that notwithstanding, they’re failings have no bearing on whether Christianity’s claims are true.
I've been around christians my whole life. Either directly or indirectly through family. I can count on my hands the number of people who have actually tried faithfully living their religion. The other hundreds were literal child molesters, racists, killers(manslaughter), adulterers, liars, frauds, rapists, and worst of all hypocrites.
Now I could chalk all that up to everyone being a sinner or mans fall or what have you. But I have watched those same people kick their child out of the house for getting a BJ. Kick a person out of their position in the church because of a prior marriage. I have watched them steal from the church, flee the country to avoid being arrested(on the churches dime) and I have seen them all cover up sexual abuse.
10 good people is not worth all that disgusting filth.
The fact that the world is full of sin doesn’t discount the truth of God’s presence as it’s own set of facts. And should the latter be true, yes, to God it’s worth all the disgusting filth for 10 good people. I feel like giving you a hug.
If the god of the bible were true and people legitimately had an encounter with him they would not be what they are. If not for love and respect and the rewards he promised then for avoiding a literal eternity in hellfire. Something is off.
He is and I have. I can also tell you that resurrections happen all the time. The “dead to sin” Christian’s sinful nature rises and many things, psychological stress, temptation, lack of Biblical knowledge, misunderstanding, lead people back to sin. I’ve done that too. I’ve come back from backsliding. Even when backslid, I believed. The human mind is expert in contradiction.
"Yep, POS EE lies about what the bill does to excuse his desire to paint liberals as pedophiles."
Don't forget that this isn't the first time Erickson's painted others with the pedophile brush[1], so he's already proven to be a Chicken Little on this topic. Looking forward to his "mea culpa" in a few years if the schedule for these kinds of things hold steady.
[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/erick-erickson-is-sorry-about-some-of-the-things-he-has-said