It is the constitutional obligation of the Democrats to beat Republicans anywhere and everywhere until consistent defeat wrings out the insanity that elected Donald Trump, and that nominated Roy Moore, from a Republican Party gone blind and mad.
You know damn well that this bullshit is just a cover for freakazoids to intimidate and proselytize students.
The ACLU knows it, too, and is ready to fight the motherfuckers, but they need your help.
Kentucky has more than 170 public school districts that are responsible for approximately 1,200 public schools. Many of those schools will soon be offering "Bible Literacy" courses to their students as a direct result of HB 128 that passed into law last session by the General Assembly.
While courses on the Bible can be taught in public schools in a constitutionally permissible way, the ACLU of Kentucky has reason to believe that not all of the schools that offer this class will faithfully adhere to those constitutional limits.
Contact us if you, or someone you know, has specific information about your school district using these courses to "preach," instead of "teach." Also, please keep copies of any classroom assignments, worksheets, or other materials that you think highlight that fact. Simply email us at info@aclu-ky.org and include "Bible literacy" in the subject line, or fill out our legal intake form.
Best of luck to all of Kentucky's teachers and students as they kick off the school year. While school officials are not permitted to sponsor prayer or proselytize in school, students may freely express and exercise their faith. There are always a number of Know Your Rights resources on free exercise of religious liberty in public schools available on our national organization's website.
Every anti-worker, pro-rich, corporatist, freakazoid, homophobic, misogynistic, unconstitutional way they could.
Tom Loftus at the Courier:
Charter schoolsAnd more.
House Bill 520 will allow publicly funded charter schools to operate in Kentucky beginning next school year, although none are expected to begin operation until 2018-19. (All students who need extra help because of disability or poverty will be shunted into unfunded public schools.)
Education reform
Senate Bill 1 is a sweeping measure streamlining how students are taught and tested and how teachers are evaluated. It will give local schools more control over teacher evaluations and create a new way for intervening in low-performing schools that gives more authority to local school districts. (There is no end to the mischief this law allows: creationism, bibble inerrancy, forcing trans students to piss and shit themselves in class, encouraging students to harass and attack non-straight, muslim and/or immigrant students ... the horrors are endless.)
Right-to-work
House Bill 1 prohibits membership in a labor union or payment of union dues as a condition of employment. (No, this law takes away the last protections workers have from wage-stealing employers.)
Prevailing wage repeal: House Bill 3 repeals a law that requires a regional prevailing wage rate be paid as a minimum for workers building public schools and other state or local public buildings. (Back to minimum wage, you workers! Thanks to the above, your union is dead.)
Abortion: House Bill 2 requires doctors to display and describe the details of an ultrasound to a woman prior to an abortion procedure. Women can decline to look at the ultrasound image or listen to the fetal heartbeat if they choose. (This law mandates doctors commit object rape on their own patients.)
Abortion: Senate Bill 5 bans abortion beginning with the 20th week of a pregnancy. The prohibition does not apply when an abortion is needed to save the life or prevent serious risk of permanent bodily harm to the mother.
Planned Parenthood funding: Senate Bill 8 puts Planned Parenthood at the end of the line behind other health care providers for getting any federal family planning funds. (Are you a minimum-wage worker who needs a mammogram or a pap smear? Tough shit. Get back to work before your cancer metastasizes.)
Medical malpractice: Senate Bill 4 will require that a panel of doctors review malpractice complaints before the complaint goes to court. (Did your stoned-on-oxy surgeon cut off the wrong let? Tough shit. His doctor buddies will protect him from your lawsuit.)
Do not fall for the euphemism: "ultrasound" before an abortion refers to jamming a mechanical object deep into a woman's body against her will. That's Object Rape, and that's what Bevin signing this bill requires.
From the media advisory:
Gov. Matt Bevin will ceremonially sign two historic pro-life measures during the Kentucky Right to Life Association’s annual “Rally for Life” at the Capitol on Wednesday.Yes, Kentucky DINOs are cowardly, misogynistic pieces of shit. What else is new?
More than a dozen state legislators and pro-life advocates from across the Commonwealth will participate in the event, as Gov. Bevin commemorates the recently enacted Senate Bill 5 (protecting unborn children after 20 weeks of gestation) and House Bill 2 (requiring an ultrasound before a pregnancy is terminated), which both passed with broad bipartisan support in the General Assembly.
Many conservatives have touted "defunding" Planned Parenthood as a goal for years, but a new bill targeting that organization potentially could affect a wider range of groups, including churches, if Kentucky's Republican-run legislature approves it.House Bill 149 would prohibit public funds from going to any organizations or individuals that provide abortion services or are affiliates of that type of group. It includes exceptions for hospitals, universities and medical schools.The bill's sponsor, Rep. Stan Lee, R-Lexington, said it targets Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, which currently doesn't provide abortions in the state. Critics say the legislation could prevent other organizations from getting public money."This legislation is directed at essentially defunding Planned Parenthood," Lee said. “This was designed to ... make sure there wasn’t a way for them to kind of sidestep this requirement, get around it and obtain funding.”Lee said he filed HB 149 because he didn't think a similar bill in the state Senate went far enough in terms of preventing Planned Parenthood from getting a shot at public funding.Under his bill, an organization wouldn't have to perform abortions to be considered an abortion-services provider. The bill says abortion services also include providing referrals to or information about facilities where abortions are performed as well as "providing counseling, advice, written materials or other information that encourages or promotes abortion."
Those would be the same freakazoid bills - the infamous HB2 - that cost North Carolina billions of dollars in lost revenue from corporations fleeing the state in disgust.
And why, you ask, has this traitorous piece of shit not been disowned by the Kentucky Democratic Party? Because there is no Kentucky Democratic Party. Which explains just about everything.
Also, Rick Nelson is a coward. He never dared pull this shit when Greg Stumbo controlled the Democratic House.
Kentucky Democrats: Finding new ways to make Kentucky a National Laughingstock.FRANKFORT, Ky. — Two controversial social conservative bills that many top Republican leaders have de-emphasized in recent months were filed in the Kentucky House on Tuesday by a Democrat.Rep. Rick Nelson, a Democrat from Middlesboro, filed the transgender bathroom bill (House Bill 106) that would require public schools, state universities, state government and local governments to designate that bathrooms they control "only be used by persons based on their biological sex."And Nelson's House Bill 105 is similar to past "religious freedom" bills filed in the legislature. It says that no law, regulation or court order shall impair the exercise of rights guaranteed by the constitutions of the United States and Kentucky including "a person's right of conscience" and freedom of religion."I just want to make sure those bills are out there in case the other side decides not to do them. I support them and think they're pretty good," Nelson said.He said both bills are nearly identical to ones filed in recent legislative sessions but blocked in the House, which until Tuesday was controlled by a Democratic majority.SNIPChris Hartman, director of the Fairness Campaign, said Wednesday that he's concerned about Nelson's two bills."Together these bills are North Carolina's House Bill 2," Hartman said, referring to a controversial law that was met with a response that included cancellation of sporting events and business expansions.Hartman said that the "religious freedom" bill would allow owners of businesses to discriminate by refusing service based on beliefs. "It would subvert fairness ordinances in the eight Kentucky cities where they exist."
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