Ron DeSantis never backs down from a fight over wokeness.
The Left never learns its lesson about going to war with him.
And a woke activist is going to live to regret picking this nasty fight with Ron DeSantis.
Controversy erupts over school chaplain bill in Florida
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law that established a voluntary chaplain program for government schools to provide more support for students.
Parents would have to provide written permission for the student to see the chaplain.
“It’s our view that if school districts want to bring in chaplains to offer voluntary services, that they’re within their rights to do so,” DeSantis said.
“Students can receive this support from chaplains if their parents provide written consent for them to do so,” DeSantis continued. “So, if the parents aren’t interested in that, then the students don’t have to be involved in it by any means.”
The atheist Left raged at the idea of having students receive spiritual support in government schools.
To undermine the new law, The Satanic Temple announced that were going to get satanists qualified for the chaplain program.
DeSantis shut down the idea by correctly pointing out that satanism is not a real religion.
Militant atheists use satanism as a weapon to attack public support for Christianity under equal protection laws.
“Some have said that if you do a school chaplain program, that, somehow, you’re going to have satanists running around in all our schools. We’re not playing those games in Florida,” DeSantis said at the bill signing ceremony. “That is not a religion. That is not qualified to be able to participate in this. So, we’re going to be using common sense when it comes to this. You don’t have to worry about it.”
Satanic leader challenges Ron DeSantis to a debate
Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves told Fox News Digital that the Florida Governor, a Harvard Law School graduate, was misinformed about the chaplain law.
“This should be of significant concern to anybody, regardless of their own religious views,” Greaves said. “Worse, in signing HB 931 into law, the governor simply announced, from the podium at a press conference, that Satanists were to be considered unqualified for the school chaplaincy program while citing no legal theory to support his view.”
Greaves said that DeSantis did not understand the law and that it “does in fact allow Satanic chaplains in schools.”
He added that the IRS does consider his group a tax-exempt church and claimed there were grounds to file a discrimination lawsuit over the chaplain law.
Satanic Temple executive director of operations Rachel Chambliss sent an invitation for DeSantis to have a public debate with Greaves.
“In light of Governor DeSantis’ recent remarks concerning our involvement in Florida’s new School Chaplain program, we find ourselves in respectful disagreement,” Chambliss wrote. “We believe that a public debate would provide an excellent platform to thoroughly discuss the principles of religious freedom in America.”
Greaves tried to goad DeSantis into debating him.
“If I am correct, and DeSantis is merely engaging in empty grandstanding with a complete disregard for the intelligence of the people of Florida, he will surely ignore this challenge,” Greaves stated.
The Satanic Temple is picking a fight that they are going to live to regret.
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
