Too_Many_Tools
2013-04-12 09:58:52 UTC
We'll give them a swift kick in the ass though!
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Des Moines, Iowa Lawmakers in Iowa are threatening to pull
funding to a state community college after they became aware
that the educational institution was using taxpayer money to
send students to a homosexual event that they believe perverts
the Bible.
We cannot in good conscience vote to give taxpayer dollars to
people or groups who pervert the Bible, teach our youth to
engage in dangerous behavior, and target [pro-family or
Christian] individuals for hatred and bullying, reads a
statement released by a joint coalition of 16 lawmakers this
week.
The document was signed by Senators David Johnson, Mark
Segebart, Mark Chelgren, Dennis Guth, Bill Anderson, Kent
Sorenson and Rick Bertrand; and Representatives Dwayne Alons,
Greg Heartsill, Dean Fisher, Robert Bacon, Tom Shaw, Jason
Schultz, Larry Sheets, Ralph Watts and Sandy Salmon.
Des Moines Area Community College is sending approximately 50
students to the Iowa Governors Conference on LGBTQ Youth next
week. Some of the seminar titles at the homosexual-based
conference include Is the Bible an Excuse for Hate? Can Love
Between Two People Ever Be an Abomination? and Whos Afraid of
the Big Bad Right Wing? Other workshops teach youth how to
fight back against [the] propaganda of those who oppose
homosexual behavior.
While the event is said to serve as an anti-bullying effort,
some students at the college believe that it rather serves to
bully Christians.
Its outrageous, Jake Dagel, chairman of Young Americans for
Freedom, told reporter Todd Starnes. My school has decided to
use the money that I funded them to go out and fund an event
thats bullying people with my beliefs.
Chuck Hurley of the local pro-family organization The Family
Leader likewise noted that although the event outline states
that the seminars presented will teach attendees how to fight
back against propaganda, the event uses evil propaganda
tactics itself.
Stop twisting the Bible and stop using our tax dollars to do
it, he declared.
Hurley has called upon Governor Terry Branstad to ask that the
word governor be removed from the conference title, as the
event was initiated by then Governor Tom Vilsak, who supported
homosexual relationships. It remains to be seen as to how
Branstad will respond.
However, the 16 legislators who signed the statement opposing
the event are threatening to vote against funding the school
until it stops using taxpayer money to send students to the
conference.
College president Rob Denson told reporters that he will not
budge.
Absolutely not, he said. We want to make this conference
available to a certain number of our students that might not
otherwise be able to go. As a community college, we have many
students who represent many of the different categories and we
are supportive of all of them.
Denson stated that he doubts that the event is demeaning to
Christians or the Bible.
[The conference] promotes diversity and opposes bullying or any
behavior toward diverse populations that is unfair,
inappropriate or illegal, he said.
But lawmakers dont agree.
This is not a proper use of taxpayer funds, said Senator
Dennis Guth.
Guth and others advise that their statement serves as a pact to
block funding to the college until it stops promoting activities
that pervert the word of God.
http://christiannews.net/2013/03/29/iowa-lawmakers-to-community-
college-we-will-not-give-funds-to-those-who-pervert-the-bible/
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Des Moines, Iowa Lawmakers in Iowa are threatening to pull
funding to a state community college after they became aware
that the educational institution was using taxpayer money to
send students to a homosexual event that they believe perverts
the Bible.
We cannot in good conscience vote to give taxpayer dollars to
people or groups who pervert the Bible, teach our youth to
engage in dangerous behavior, and target [pro-family or
Christian] individuals for hatred and bullying, reads a
statement released by a joint coalition of 16 lawmakers this
week.
The document was signed by Senators David Johnson, Mark
Segebart, Mark Chelgren, Dennis Guth, Bill Anderson, Kent
Sorenson and Rick Bertrand; and Representatives Dwayne Alons,
Greg Heartsill, Dean Fisher, Robert Bacon, Tom Shaw, Jason
Schultz, Larry Sheets, Ralph Watts and Sandy Salmon.
Des Moines Area Community College is sending approximately 50
students to the Iowa Governors Conference on LGBTQ Youth next
week. Some of the seminar titles at the homosexual-based
conference include Is the Bible an Excuse for Hate? Can Love
Between Two People Ever Be an Abomination? and Whos Afraid of
the Big Bad Right Wing? Other workshops teach youth how to
fight back against [the] propaganda of those who oppose
homosexual behavior.
While the event is said to serve as an anti-bullying effort,
some students at the college believe that it rather serves to
bully Christians.
Its outrageous, Jake Dagel, chairman of Young Americans for
Freedom, told reporter Todd Starnes. My school has decided to
use the money that I funded them to go out and fund an event
thats bullying people with my beliefs.
Chuck Hurley of the local pro-family organization The Family
Leader likewise noted that although the event outline states
that the seminars presented will teach attendees how to fight
back against propaganda, the event uses evil propaganda
tactics itself.
Stop twisting the Bible and stop using our tax dollars to do
it, he declared.
Hurley has called upon Governor Terry Branstad to ask that the
word governor be removed from the conference title, as the
event was initiated by then Governor Tom Vilsak, who supported
homosexual relationships. It remains to be seen as to how
Branstad will respond.
However, the 16 legislators who signed the statement opposing
the event are threatening to vote against funding the school
until it stops using taxpayer money to send students to the
conference.
College president Rob Denson told reporters that he will not
budge.
Absolutely not, he said. We want to make this conference
available to a certain number of our students that might not
otherwise be able to go. As a community college, we have many
students who represent many of the different categories and we
are supportive of all of them.
Denson stated that he doubts that the event is demeaning to
Christians or the Bible.
[The conference] promotes diversity and opposes bullying or any
behavior toward diverse populations that is unfair,
inappropriate or illegal, he said.
But lawmakers dont agree.
This is not a proper use of taxpayer funds, said Senator
Dennis Guth.
Guth and others advise that their statement serves as a pact to
block funding to the college until it stops promoting activities
that pervert the word of God.
http://christiannews.net/2013/03/29/iowa-lawmakers-to-community-
college-we-will-not-give-funds-to-those-who-pervert-the-bible/