McConnell Complains BBB Won't Let Daycare Centers Discriminate

[turbinetree]

As part of the Republican war on Biden’s plan for universal pre-K, Sen. Mitch McConnell suggested that Democrats want to indoctrinate three and four year-olds with critical race theory

By NewsHound Ellen — December 8, 2021

Apparently, McConnell and his power-hungry colleagues would rather force youngsters and their parents to keep paying through the nose for pre-K or go without rather than grant Biden a political win on a policy that is quite popular with the public.

Naturally, McConnell's doing so by playing the victim, in this case by falsely claiming that the bill is a “war on faith-based childcare” because Democrats “want to unleash the woke mob” and deny funds to “any remotely traditional institution” the “radical left” accuses of discrimination. You know what that’s code for, doncha?

MCCONNELL: I haven’t even touched on one of the most sinister parts of this whole proposal. For parents who do use childcare outside the home, faith-based options are incredibly popular. The bipartisan policy center estimates that 53% of parents who use center-based care use ones that are linked to faith-based organizations.

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/12/mcconnell-complains-bbb-won-t-let-daycare

Hey # Moscow Mitch MCTurtle....good thing I am not a teacher.....in Current Events with students...because I would be teaching about the insurrection and who started it....while fucking standing on a podium ..... and all the "republican" lackeys in Congress.....then I can really get your undies in a knot.....

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Since he won't be voting for it

What does he care? Seriously - nothing to be gained by soliciting a Fascist Party member's opinion.

[bullwinkle428]

2. It always comes back to segregating kids with these people, isn't it??

[Midnight Writer]

3. Correct me if I'm wrong, but pre-K is not mandatory. It would actually expand choices for daycare.

The greatest boon would be for parents who find daycare for their children financially burdensome.

The people who currently prefer faith-based childcare can continue to use it.

[Caliman73]

4. They are whining that it isn't fair...

Religious people don't get government money to literally indoctrinate their children in religious day care centers.

They think that a secular day care is also indoctrination. Cause you know, learning the Alphabet and Numbers without talking about a particular sky fairy is indoctrination "against religion". It is a BS argument but they will use whatever lie to stop legislation that would benefit Democrats.

Standard practice. My parents are Catholic. They wanted me to go to Catholic School. I did, for 11 years. The secular part (Math, Science, Literature, Spanish, etc...) stuck. The religious part did not (to their consternation). Funny thing is that the education I received in Catholic school actually taught me critical thinking skills that lead me to understand the inconsistencies within the Bible, Church History, and practice of the faith, so it actually prepared me to stop practicing. I think that most people continue to practice because of culture and tradition, I mean, I had my kids baptized before we all stopped practicing. My parents try to bring it up, though they have settled down of late.

McConnell and Republicans have been harnessing the fear in Christians that they will lose social dominance, and painting it as religious freedom because they know that the more people turn away, the more that churches are actually going to have to make an argument on the merits, and they can't really do that.

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. Shoring up the evangelical base.

How will folks having access to affordable child care hurt the religious child care centers, if indeed they are so “incredibly popular”?

Isn’t their “popularity” determined by the services they provide?

Shut up, Mitch.

[Grins]

6. Why should the taxpayers pay for private shit...

Why should the taxpayers fund “faith-based organizations” schools - at all?

Don’t these organizations have faith?

Don’t want to send your kids to public schools on the taxpayer’s dime? Fine! Just don’t expect me to fund your segregationist “Christian Academies.”

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. Have I mentioned lately how much I hate these f***ing people? nt

[onethatcares]

8. faith based indoctrination

"You have to teach them early"