8/17/2002
''He'll turn that agency basically into a theocracy,'' said Oklahoma state Rep. M.C. Leist, who serves on that social services appropriations subcommittee. ``You need to watch out with Jerry.''
Sheesh, the ol' Bush family technique in action: Talk moderate, appoint extreme.
The Miami Herald found a right-wing theocratic tract carrying the name of Bush DCF appointee Jerry Regier. Reiger denies he's out to turn the DCF into a Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Suppression of Vice. But the co-chairman of the committee that put the thing out tells the Sun-Sentinel that Regier as "one of the editors on this." (11th graph.)
Read it here in pdf and here in html.
According to this manifesto, it's OK to beat children as long as they're not disfigured. Children cannot be taken from abusive parents when only one parent does the actual abusing. Divorce should be illegal. Christians should not marry nonChristians. Abortion and many forms of birth control should be banned. Women shouldn't work. Churches are enjoined to break the law to advance Christian causes.
This is scary stuff coming from the new head of DCF but it won't matter in the least. Jeb will get his appointment. We can at least be comforted in knowing that DCF will be no more competent in establishing a theocracy than it is in protecting kids.
Sheesh, the ol' Bush family technique in action: Talk moderate, appoint extreme.
The Miami Herald found a right-wing theocratic tract carrying the name of Bush DCF appointee Jerry Regier. Reiger denies he's out to turn the DCF into a Ministry for Propagation of Virtue and Suppression of Vice. But the co-chairman of the committee that put the thing out tells the Sun-Sentinel that Regier as "one of the editors on this." (11th graph.)
Read it here in pdf and here in html.
According to this manifesto, it's OK to beat children as long as they're not disfigured. Children cannot be taken from abusive parents when only one parent does the actual abusing. Divorce should be illegal. Christians should not marry nonChristians. Abortion and many forms of birth control should be banned. Women shouldn't work. Churches are enjoined to break the law to advance Christian causes.
This is scary stuff coming from the new head of DCF but it won't matter in the least. Jeb will get his appointment. We can at least be comforted in knowing that DCF will be no more competent in establishing a theocracy than it is in protecting kids.
