Mercy! You'd be the only one here not Mrs. O whipped or an open drooler for a pretty face.
... but yeah, she's plenty wiggy and no one wants her near the 'football' when things get hairy.
https://www.salon.com/2021/09/18/kristi-noems-new-theocracy-no-masks-in-schools-but-she-is-trying-to-make-kids-pray_partner/Kristi Noem's new theocracy: No masks in schools, but she is trying to make kids pray
South Dakota faces a raging p******c, but its governor is focused on whether the government is "biblical" enough
South Dakota's Republican Governor Kristi Noem refuses to mandate masks for schoolchildren and teachers but she's trying to make students pray in public. Gov. Noem, who is widely expected to run for president in 2024, has let the c****av***s run rampant in her state of just 886,667 people – a population so small New York City's is ten times larger. And yet c****av***s is running rampant in South Dakota, which ranks number eight in the nation for c****av***s cases per capita.
Governor Noem just made clear she does not see herself as a government or political leader, but as a religious one. Speaking to Real America's Voice personality David Brody, Noem declared she will bring back prayer in schools (even though voluntary prayer has always been legal) and thinks political leaders are supposed to "minister" to their constituents.
Complaining that the actions other government leaders are taking "are not biblical," Noem says they are supposed to "line up with God," which is false.
"I think that it's really time for all of us to look at the actions of our leaders and see if they line up with the word of God," Noem said, "see if they're biblical and if they really are following through on those actions that God's called us to do to protect people, to serve people, and to really minister to them."
"We in South Dakota, have decided to take action to really stand for biblical principles. We had a bill that was passed during legislative session two years ago that put the the motto 'In God We Trust' in every single school building it is displayed. Now in every K-12 school building in the state of South Dakota.
"I have legislation that we'll be proposing this year that will allow us to pray in schools, again, I really believe that focusing on those foundational biblical principles that teach us that every life has value every person has a purpose will recenter our kids and help us really heal this division that we see taking over our country."
MSNBC's Steve Benen notes, "given that the United States is a democracy, and not a theocracy, officials' actions are supposed to line up with the Constitution and the rule of law, not how some people interpret scripture."
"What the governor seemed to be suggesting, however, isn't a system in which students pray on their own," he adds, "but one in which school officials intervene in children's religious lives. In the United States, that's not legal: As my friends at Americans United for Separation of Church and State recently explained, 'The South Dakota Supreme Court struck down mandatory recitation of the Lord's Prayer in the state's public schools in 1929. The U.S. Supreme Court invalidated school-sponsored prayer and Bible reading in public schools in 1962 and '63.'"
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