2/2/22, Huntington H.S., WV, from ABC News: students were ushered into an assembly & “told to close their eyes in prayer and urged to turn their lives over to Christ.” Students couldn’t leave “because the classroom was locked.” A spokesperson for the school, when asked ... 1/6



how an evangelical revival was required “during the school's daily COMPASS ‘noninstructional break,’” said, “‘It’s unfortunate that it happened... We don’t believe it will ever happen again.’” We have… Continue

Evangelicals (31%) aren’t a majority of Hoosier voters, citizens or Christians (72%), but act like they are a super-majority. There are (thankfully fewer) people like right-wing preacher/former GOP candidate Micah Beckwith. God, he claims, speaks w/Beckwith often. 1/10

Christians have a bad history of discriminating against each other. As recently 8/14/60, Eugene C Pulliam, publisher of The Indianapolis Star, wrote: “Why won’t Jack Kennedy be frank enough to admit publicly that it was…

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The last of 7 points in a Feb 4 email from Indiana GOP chair Hupfer that purport to reply to President Biden’s question “What are Republicans for?” Item 6: “Equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.” This ignores reality. Teddy Roosevelt, a GOP Pres, saw this. 1/6

TR advocated for "a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes." He argued that estate taxes are required "to preserve a measurable equality of opportunity." As we have seen, the more wealth goes into fewer hands, the…

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To return once more to the Feb 4 email in which Indiana GOP chair Hupfer purportedly replied to President Biden’s question “What are Republicans for?” w/7 points. Item 6: “The sanctity of life.” That’s a grand idea for the Grand Old Party! We need to sponsor a study. 1/5

How many actual lives, as in people in existence, have been saved as a result of Roe v Wade? We have several categories. Incidence of violent crime dropped in 1991 nationwide, about the time males who would have been…

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U.S. Const., Amend XIV protects a parent's right to raise their child. K.T.K. v. DCS, 989 N.E.2d 1225, 1230 (Ind. 2013). A parent's interest in care, custody & control of her/his child perhaps oldest of fundamental liberty interests. Troxel v Granville, 530 U.S. 57, 65 (2000). 1/7

“Racism” is “belief that some races are inherently superior to other races. ( ) Unfair treatment of people often including violence against them , because they belong to a different race from one’s own.”…

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In a Feb 4 email, Indiana GOP chair Hupfer replied to President Biden’s question “What are Republicans for?” w/7 points. Item 3: “Free, fair, and secure elections,” an implicit value of any U.S. political party, but a not-too-subtle swipe at the 2020 election & trump’s loss. 1/5



First, let’s cut the crap. An article, 2/3/21, by the Hoover Institution, affiliated w/Stanford, states allegations of voter fraud in 2020 “fail either because sometimes the ‘fact’ is inaccurate or it is… Continue

Random platform points. 5) Gun violence: gun ppls’ claim that gun ownership deters crime not been subj of peer review study. If claim is true gun ppl should welcome such studies that by law CDC cant sponsor. Indiana should fund such studies at our public universities here. 1/5



6) Environment: w/some of the dirtiest air & H2O in U.S. Indiana isn’t good 4 business. Air should be clean enough to breathe & H2O in our streams clean enough that a person can drink directly from them… Continue

Random platform points. 5) Gun violence: gun ppls’ claim that gun ownership deters crime not been subj of peer review study. If claim is true gun ppl should welcome such studies that by law CDC cant sponsor. Indiana should fund such studies at our public universities here. 1/5



6) Environment: w/some of the dirtiest air & H2O in U.S. Indiana isn’t good 4 business. Air should be clean enough to breathe & H2O in our streams clean enough that a person can drink directly from them… Continue

Indiana GOP chair Hupfer asserts: “Joe Biden, in an attempt to place blame for his floundering far-Left agenda, has been asking the rhetorical question: ‘What are Republicans for?’” Let’s be clear on a cpl of points. First, Pres Biden’s agenda is not “far-Left.” 1/7



I’m “far Left” & agenda incl protection of civil & voting rts, women’s reproductive rts, passage of ERA, Medicare for all, clean air & water, elimination of student debt, cut military budget & eliminate DH… Continue

I received an email from Indiana GOP chair Kyle Hupfer who asserts: “Joe Biden, in an attempt to place blame for his floundering far-Left agenda, has been asking the rhetorical question: ‘What are Republicans for?’ Of course, [Pres Biden] doesn't really want to know” 1/7

In 2020, GOP stuck w/2016 platform & its lead candidate added “core priorities.” Hupfer lists 7 items. Item One: “American exceptionalism”: our nation’s ideas & principles give us unique moral leadership &…

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JR Ewing was all-American tone: winning’s no fun unless you cheat. Indiana’s education system skews rules in favor of schools that aren’t supposed to receive public funds. Ind.Const, Art. I §6 states: “No money shall B drawn from the treasury, 4 the benefit 1/5

of any religious/theological institution.” But today a lot of Indiana tax $$$ go 2 religious schools. Prof Sheila Kennedy’s blog a few days ago is accurate: “religious indoctrination academies supported by Indiana’s voucher…

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More on Rev Micah Beckwith’s talks w/his supreme deity will be discussed on Civil Discourse Now tonight, Feb 1, at 7 pm, on FB. Beckwith has posted videos over the past couple of years in which he quotes conversations. God is whom Beckwith quotes. 1/7

Beckwith needs to ask if he can record those conversations. God apparently has a lot to say about MAGA ppl & their goals, e.g. (as quoted by Beckwith): “I sent those riots to Washington.” And “What you saw yesterday [01/06/21] was my…

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