If only LePage had told us how he really felt before the election.
In this video, Governor LePage is addressing a group of homeschooling parents. They laugh about how public school teachers aren’t educating and then discuss how kids are being perverted by public schools. When a parent asks to bring God back into the schools and reinstitute daily prayers, LePage agrees with the goal but says it can’t happen unless Maine votes even more Republican in 2012.
First, the NAACP, then labor, then women, then – um – every parent in Maine who sends their kid to a public school. Nothing like pandering to a pious homeschooler to widen the base. My husband and I are religious, and lead our kids in prayer every night, in addition to bringing them to church. I don’t want somebody else, outside of church professionals, giving my kids religious instruction. Because it’s private. This new crop of right-wingers seem to miss that. I think LePage needs to borrow a pocket Constitution from his attorneygeneral.
That is a good point, and I think a lot of homeschoolers understand it. A government that is allowed to give religious teachings to children is a government that can teach your children the wrong kind of religion, a kind you don’t want.
The Education Governor. He needs one, yet remains proudly arrogantly, stubbornly ignorant.
Considering that in a single Maine classroom, there could be Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventists, Pagan/Wiccans, agnostics, or atheists, WHOSE prayer is the prayer that he thinks ought to be in school? That lady’s flavor? What about all the other denominations?
I don’t know what aspect of human sexuality is being taught in school that is “sick” or “perverted.” That people have sex when they (gasp) aren’t married? That different people have different sexual preferences? I would argue that that woman has spent little or no time in ANY public school for a long time. School guidance counselors, health teachers, and social workers work VERY HARD to promote healthy sexuality.
I do not want God in schools. It would be against my beliefs. I want my child to be educated in science, the arts, reading, math, history, geography, and other things. I will do my own religious education (or my church will).
Mr. Lepage apparently believes that everyone needs to be just like him. I am very disappointed in him. He has done nothing but impose his own beliefs and ideals on the State of Maine instead of being a uniter and someone who cares about the welfare of the people.
I LIKE PAUL LePAGE’S RESPECT FOR GOD AND COUNTRY. ” YOU GO PAUL”
You don’t have to shout. Say hi to Bill.