Florida Educators Train To Teach Christian Nationalism

Popular Information reports:

Training materials produced by the Florida Department of Education direct middle and high school teachers to indoctrinate students in the tenets of Christian nationalism, a right-wing effort to merge Christian and American identities. Thousands of Florida teachers, lured by cash stipends, have attended trainings featuring these materials.

According to speaker notes accompanying one slide, teachers were told that “Christianity challenged the notion that religion should be subservient to the goals of the state,” and the same hierarchy is reflected in America’s founding documents. That slide quotes the Bible to assert that “[c]ivil government must be respected, but the state is not God.” Teachers were told the same principle is embedded in the Declaration of Independence.

The next slide in the deck quotes an article by Peter Lillback, the president of Westminster Theological Seminary and the founder of The Providence Forum, an organization that promotes and defends Christian nationalism. The group’s executive director, Jerry Newcombe, writes a weekly column for World Net Daily — a far-right site known for publishing hundreds of stories falsely suggesting Obama was a Muslim born in Africa.

Read the full article. There’s much more.

The Christian nationalist materials were obtained through a Freedom Of Information Act demand.

As the piece notes, Peter Lillback is a signatory to the infamous Manhattan Declaration, which calls on Christians to commit “civil disobedience” against LGBTQ rights.

Photo: Florida education chief Manny Diaz, who previously appeared here over the successful bill to teach K-12 students about the evils of communism and the bans on sociology courses and diversity programs.

EXCLUSIVE: Florida educators trained to teach students Christian nationalism , by @JuddLegum https://t.co/xoRxtExcux

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