(March 13, 2018 at 8:56 am)Whateverist Wrote: I agree with your priorities but I think you underestimate how strongly the religious want to shelter their indoctrinates children from the secularizing influence of unfiltered information. My first impulse is fuck them. But politically, given the number of religiously dumb people there are in the country, that may not be a viable alternative. As a result you have people wishing to win elections speaking up for charter schools. While I'd like to avoid the divisiveness and creaming that comes with charters, maybe we have to cut the religious loose in order to save civilization.
Pandering to people who aren't going to vote for you seems like a bad strategy. Evangelicals will never vote Democrat. The best you can hope is they don't come out to vote.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton