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| 08-18-22 05:33am - 857 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Texas school district bans the Bible as porn. Texas school district bans the Bible as porn. District officials are concerned about "graphic, gratuitous, sexually-explicit content. I always knew there was racy content in the Bible. And now officials have confirmed my fears. ------ ------ Texas school district pulls over 40 books, including the Bible, from shelves amid review USA TODAY Jeanine Santucci August 17, 2022, 7:55 PM A copy of the novel Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation. (Getty Images) A copy of the novel Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation. (Getty Images) A Texas school district is pulling all books from library shelves and classrooms that were challenged by parents, lawmakers and other community members in the last year — including the Bible. The day before students started back at the Keller Independent School District, which serves students in the Fort Worth suburbs, Jennifer Price, the executive director of curriculum and instruction, told principals and librarians to remove 41 books while they undergo a review, according to an email obtained by the Texas Tribune. Some of the books included in the list are all editions of the Bible, a graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank's diary, “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison and “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” by Maia Kobabe, the Tribune reported. Kobabe's book tops the American Library Association's list for most banned books in 2021. “Attached is a list of all books that were challenged last year. By the end of today, I need all books pulled from the library and classrooms. Please collect these books and store them in a location. (book room, office, etc.),” Price wrote in the email on Tuesday. WHAT BANNING BOOKS DOES TO STUDENTS: Books are being banned from school libraries, from 'Maus' to 'Beloved' Students returned to class Wednesday after summer break, according to the district's website. The decision comes amid an uptick in book bans in schools and libraries across the country. The American Library Association, which tracks book challenges and bans, reported a more than doubling of challenges in 2021 from 2020, with actual numbers likely being much higher. Parents, politicians, and other community members have been challenging books at higher rates as conservative lawmakers raise concerns about what students are being taught in schools about topics such as race, sexuality, and gender identity. Some of the books at Keller ISD that received challenges — requests to remove them from libraries and schools — had already been reviewed last school year by a school district committee and were recommended to remain in schools, according to the Tribune. A new policy approved by the school board earlier this month requires that they be reviewed again, the district told USA TODAY in a statement. "Right now, Keller ISD’s administration is asking our campus staff and librarians to review books that were challenged last year to determine if they meet the requirements of the new policy," the statement reads. "Books that meet the new guidelines will be returned to the libraries as soon as it is confirmed they comply with the new policy." BOOK BANS AND CULTURE WARS: When their high school started banning books, these students fought back and won According to Board of Trustees President Charles Randklev in a post on Facebook, district officials are concerned about "graphic, gratuitous, sexually-explicit content." "Per the new policy, instructional materials previously challenged following the old policy, which was flawed and exposed children to pornographic material... will be re-evaluated," Randklev said. According to the district website, some challenged books after initial review were allowed to remain in all classrooms in libraries (Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," "Moxie" by Jennifer Mathieu). Some were kept only in high schools ("We Are The Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson and "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" by Jesse Andrews). One book ("More Happy Than Not" by Adam Silvera) would be removed from curriculum but allowed to remain as individual reading. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Banned books: Texas school district pulls challenged books for review    | |
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| 08-18-22 05:44am - 857 days | #2 | |
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Sometimes it doesn't pay to be a Good Samaritan. Woman fakes being stranded, then kills Florida college student who stopped, AL cops say Miami Herald Mark Price August 17, 2022, 10:34 AM A roadside robber masquerading as a stranded motorist killed a University of Central Florida student when he fought back, according to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office in Alabama. The 22-year-old victim was identified as Adam Simjee of Apopka, Florida, and he was traveling with his girlfriend, Mikayla Paulus, 20, who witnessed the killing, the sheriff’s office said in a press release. It happened around 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 14, as the couple were driving through Talladega National Forrest, a mile from Cheaha State Park, officials said. The park is about 80 miles east of Birmingham, Alabama. The two were flagged down by a woman, “later identified as Yasmine Hider,” the sheriff’s office reported. “Hider asked the couple if they could give her some assistance to get her car started, which was nearby,” officials said. “When the couple attempted to assist Hider, she produced a gun and made the couple walk back into the woods.” The 22-year-old victim was identified as Adam Simjee and he was traveling with his 20-year-old girlfriend, Mikayla Paulus, who witnessed the killing, the sheriff’s office said in a press release. Once they were in the woods, Simjee revealed he was armed and the two exchanged gunfire as Paulus looked on, officials said. Both Simjee and Hider were struck by gunfire, officials said. Mikayla noticed a second woman, “later identified as Krystal Diane Pinkins, standing in the woods nearby observing what was going on,” the sheriff’s office said. “The shooter (Hider) then called out to Pinkins to come help her. After a brief conversation between the suspects Pinkins fled the scene on foot,” officials said. “Mikayla was then able to retrieve her cell phone and call 911.” Paulus performed CPR on Simjee as they waiting for rescuers, but he died at the scene, officials said. Deputies arrived to find Hider on the ground nearby, with “several gunshots to her torso.” Hider was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Birmingham, officials said. Pinkins was arrested hours later, standing among a group of tents “1/2 mile from the scene of the robbery.” As officers ordered Pinkins to the ground, “a 5-year-old child ran from the woods holding a loaded shotgun,” officials said. “Law enforcement told the child to put the shotgun down. However the child continued to the female’s location before laying the gun on the ground,” the sheriff’s office reported. The child was Pinkins’ son, officials said. She was “arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child,” and the boy was picked up by the Department of Human Resources, officials said. “It did not appear that any other people were currently using the camp,” the sheriff’s office said. Hider faces charges of one count of murder, two counts kidnapping and two counts of robbery, officials said. She is currently in a Birmingham hospital, the sheriff’s office said, and “the weapons used in the crime have been recovered.” Pinkins has also been charged with one count of murder, two counts kidnapping and two counts of robbery, officials said. Simjee’s Facebook page reports he graduated from Apopka High School, attended Seminole State College and transferred to the University of Central Florida in 2021. He intended to graduate in 2023. Paulus also lives in Apopka and “studies Masters of Art (M.A) Clinical Mental Health Counseling at University of Central Florida,” according to her Facebook page. She says she and Simjee had been dating four years, and he died protecting her. “Yesterday my world ended,” she wrote on Facebook. “I had to watch as my reason for being, my soulmate, my life partner, the future father of my children, died in the middle of a state park in Alabama. No words can begin to describe the shock and pain I’m in. We had our entire lives ahead of us.” | |
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| 08-18-22 05:48am - 857 days | #3 | |
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Missouri pastor says congregation is 'poor, broke, busted' for not buying him a luxury Movado watch NBC Universal Minyvonne Burke August 17, 2022, 2:22 PM A Kansas City, Missouri, pastor who said his congregation was "poor, broke busted and disgusted" for not buying him the luxury watch he wanted has issued an apology after his remarks caused a stir on social media. Carlton Funderburke, the senior pastor at Church at the Well, issued an apology video Tuesday for the "inexcusable" remarks he made in an Aug. 7 sermon. "Though there is context behind the content of the clip, no context will suffice to explain the hurt and anguish caused by my words. I've spoken to those I am accountable to and have received their correction and instruction," he said. "I have also privately apologized to our church, who has extended their love and support to me." In a video clip of his sermon posted on TikTok, Funderburke berates his church members for not "honoring" him with a Movado watch. "This is how I know you’re still poor, broke, busted and disgusted, because of how you been honoring me. I’m not worth your McDonald’s money? I’m not worth your Red Lobster money? I ain’t worth your St. John Knits — y’all can’t afford nohow. I ain’t worth y'all Louis Vuitton? I ain’t worth your Prada? I’m not worth your Gucci?" he said in the nearly minutelong clip. At one point, Funderburke tells the congregation that a Movado watch can be bought at Sam's Club. "And y'all know I asked for one last year. Here it is all the way in August and I still ain’t got it," he said. "Y'all ain’t said nothing. Let me kick down the door and talk to my cheap sons and daughters." The video was posted by The Kansas City Defender, a digital media company. As of Wednesday, the video had been viewed more than 550,000 times. Many people in the comments condemned Funderburke for preaching about material items. "That would’ve been my last day in his church," a commenter wrote. "I would’ve left so fast and loudly oh no sir," another said. Another wrote: "I missed the scripture about the mavado watch." Funderburke said Tuesday that his comments do "not reflect my heart or my sentiments toward God's people." "Yet, that's not discernable in the clip," he said in his apology. "Therefore, I offer this sincere apology to you today. No context could erase the words I used." | |
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| 08-18-22 05:50am - 857 days | #4 | |
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Kids-for-cash judges ordered to pay more than $200M Associated Press MICHAEL RUBINKAM August 17, 2022, 2:11 PM Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner awarded $106 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages to nearly 300 people in a long-running civil suit against the judges, writing the plaintiffs are “the tragic human casualties of a scandal of epic proportions.” In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups. Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court, pushed a zero-tolerance policy that guaranteed large numbers of kids would be sent to PA Child Care and its sister facility, Western PA Child Care. Ciavarella ordered children as young as 8 to detention, many of them first-time offenders deemed delinquent for petty theft, jaywalking, truancy, smoking on school grounds and other minor infractions. The judge often ordered youths he had found delinquent to be immediately shackled, handcuffed and taken away without giving them a chance to put up a defense or even say goodbye to their families. “Ciavarella and Conahan abandoned their oath and breached the public trust,” Conner wrote Tuesday in his explanation of the judgment. “Their cruel and despicable actions victimized a vulnerable population of young people, many of whom were suffering from emotional issues and mental health concerns.” The Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw out some 4,000 juvenile convictions involving more than 2,300 kids after the scheme was uncovered. It’s unlikely the now-adult victims will see even a fraction of the eye-popping damages award, but a lawyer for the plaintiffs said it’s a recognition of the enormity of the disgraced judges’ crimes. “It’s a huge victory,” Marsha Levick, co-founder and chief counsel of the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center and a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said Wednesday. “To have an order from a federal court that recognizes the gravity of what the judges did to these children in the midst of some of the most critical years of their childhood and development matters enormously, whether or not the money gets paid.” Another plaintiffs' attorney, Sol Weiss, said he would begin a probe of the judges' assets, but did not think they had any money to pay a judgment. Ciavarella, 72, is serving a 28-year prison sentence in Kentucky. His projected release date is 2035. Conahan, 70, was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison but was released to home confinement in 2020 — with six years left on his sentence — because of the coronavirus pandemic. Conner ruled after hearing often-emotional testimony last year from 282 people who appeared in Luzerne County juvenile court between 2003 and 2008 — 79 of whom were under 13 when Ciavarella sent them to juvenile detention — and 32 parents. “They recounted his harsh and arbitrary nature, his disdain for due process, his extraordinary abruptness, and his cavalier and boorish behavior in the courtroom,” Conner wrote. One unnamed child victim testified that Ciavarella had “ruined my life” and “just didn’t let me get to my future,” according to Conner's ruling. Said another plaintiff: “I feel I was just sold out for no reason. Like everybody just stood in line to be sold." Another victim described how he shook uncontrollably during a routine traffic stop — a consequence of the traumatizing impact of his childhood detention — and had to show his mental health records in court to “explain why my behavior was so erratic.” Several of the childhood victims who were part of the lawsuit when it began in 2009 have since died from overdoses or suicide, Conner said. To calculate compensatory damages, the judge decided each plaintiff was entitled to a base rate of $1,000 for each day of wrongful detention, and adjusted that amount based on the circumstances of each case. Substantial punitive damages were warranted because the disgraced judges inflicted “unspeakable physical and emotional trauma” on children and adolescents, Conner wrote. The damages award only covers plaintiffs who chose to participate in process. Other major figures in the case settled years ago, including the builder and the owner of the private lockups and their companies, in payouts totaling about $25 million. | |
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| 08-18-22 06:11am - 857 days | #5 | |
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Florida court says teen is not mature enough to have an abortion. Instead, they will force the teen to have a baby. Does that make sense? Are they going to pay for the emotional trauma of having a baby for the rest of the teen girl's life? ---- ---- Florida court says teen is not 'mature' enough to have an abortion NBC Universal Corky Siemaszko August 16, 2022, 11:37 AM A pregnant and parentless 16-year-old in Florida may be forced to give birth after an appeals court ruled she was not “sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.” The teenager, who is identified in court papers as Jane Doe 22-B, was appealing a decision by Circuit Judge Jennifer Frydrychowicz on Aug. 10 that blocked her from having an abortion without the consent of a parent or guardian, as required by Florida law. At the time, the teenager was 10 weeks pregnant, the court papers state. But the three-judge panel of the state's 1st District Court of Appeal, which covers northern Florida, sided Monday, for the most part, with Frydrychowicz. The teenager "had not established by clear and convincing evidence that she was sufficiently mature to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy,” the ruling by Judges Harvey Jay, Rachel Nordby and Scott Makar, states. “Having reviewed the record, we affirm the trial court’s decision under the deferential standard of appellate review set out (in the consent law).” Dissenting from the other judges, however, Makar wrote that the appeals court should send the case back to Frydrychowicz for the possibility of further consideration. “The trial judge apparently sees this matter as a very close call, finding that the minor was 'credible,' 'open' with the judge, and nonevasive," Makar wrote. “The trial judge must have been contemplating that the minor — who was 10 weeks pregnant at the time — would potentially be returning before long — given the statutory time constraints at play — to shore up any lingering doubt the trial court harbored.” Makar noted that the teenager is “parentless,” lives with a relative, but also has an appointed guardian. She was also savvy enough to do Google searches "to gain an understanding about her medical options and their consequences." “She is pursuing a GED with involvement in a program designed to assist young women who have experienced trauma in their lives by providing educational support and counseling,” Makar wrote. “The minor experienced renewed trauma (the death of a friend) shortly before she decided to seek termination of her pregnancy.” Makar also noted that in her petition, which "she completed by hand," the teenager insisted "she is sufficiently mature to make the decision, saying she 'is not ready to have a baby,' she doesn’t have a job, she is 'still in school,' and the father is unable to assist her." The "guardian is fine with what [she] wants to do" the teenager claimed, according to Makar. The teenager's guardian and case worker were with her in court. But "inexplicably," Makar wrote, the teenager "checked the box indicating she did not request an attorney, which is available by law for free under the statute." Makar also noted that Frydrychowicz "displayed concern for the minor’s predicament throughout the hearing." "She asked difficult questions of the minor on sensitive personal matters in a compassionate manner," Makar wrote. "The trial judge’s tone and method of questioning were commendable." NBC News has reached out to Frydrychowicz, a registered Republican who also serves on the board of the Escambia Children’s Trust, which runs educational and other programs for kids in the county, for comment. Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2004 that cleared the way for the state Legislature to pass a law requiring that parents or guardians be notified before minors have abortions. But because some minors faced possible abuse if their parents found out they're pregnant, Florida lawmakers also included a legal process that made it possible for them to go to court to get around the rules. Then in June of 2020, Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is also a Republican, signed SB 404, legislation which requires written consent from a minor’s parent or legal guardian for an abortion. “Thanks to Ron DeSantis, Florida is now forcing a teenager to give birth against her will," Florida Democratic Party spokesman Travis Reuther said in a statement. "That is an appalling and dangerous overreach by the Governor, who claims to represent the ‘free state of Florida,’ but wants to make women’s healthcare decisions for them." NBC News has reached out to DeSantis for a response. Abortion rights in Florida were endangered even before the Supreme Court in June overturned Roe v. Wade. In April, DeSantis signed into law a measure banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a measure that is being challenged in court. | |
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