Religious Right Poster Boy: CA Pastor Uses Board Position To Plump For Fundamentalism In School

[Ian David]

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Religious Right Poster Boy: California Pastor Uses Board Position To Plump For Fundamentalism In School\
The religious poster victory was another effort by Vegas, in his school board capacity, to shove his religion into the faces of teachers, students and administrators of the school district.
November 12th 2007

A California public school board member who is also an evangelical pastor is apparently bent on injecting the schools with his brand of religion – an unfortunate mishmash of Religious Right canards and fundamentalism.

Chad Vegas, pastor at an evangelical church, the Sovereign Church of Bakersfield, and member of the school board of the 36,000-student Kern High School District, sounded a triumphant note to The Los Angeles Times recently after the district adopted a policy of festooning its classrooms and offices with an “In God We Trust” poster.

“We’re not going to accept the agenda of some radical leftists who want to expunge God from public dialogue,” Vegas said after the Kern school board voted 4-1 in favor of the “In God We Trust” policy. “Instead, we’re teaching our citizens – including our children – that the very foundation of government is that God gave them unalienable rights that cannot be usurped by the will of the majority or anyone else.”

The religious poster victory was another effort by Vegas, in his school board capacity, to shove his religion into the faces of teachers, students and administrators of the school district. And members of the community and media who are taking notice should probably not be terribly surprised. The Bakersfield California reported that when Vegas campaigned for a seat on the board in 2004, half of his contributors were from his church. Part of the church’s mission, according to its Web site, is to help people to “catch a glimpse of the vision of the Glory of Christ so that you might delight in Him, develop in your understanding of Him, and declare Him in all things to all peoples.”

More:
http://blog.au.org/2007/11/12/religious-right-poster-boy-california-pastor-uses-board-position-to-plump-for-fundamentalism-in-school/

[kestrel91316]

1. This is Bakersfield, so it is no surprise. Same neighborhood where

some physician refused to treat a little boy because his mom had a tattoo.

[Ian David]

3. Well, if the tattoo said, "I Love To Sue Doctors," that MIGHT make sense. n/t

[DCKit]

2. There goes the separation of church and state.... Oh, wait a minute, that's already gone. nt