Want to see one of the reasons Steve King keeps getting re-elected?

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This the head of the Iowa GOP.

Republican Leader: Ending Mandatory Prayers in Public Schools Has Led to “Assault, Rape, Murder”

February 3, 2015 by Hemant Mehta

On the “View from a Pew” show recently, Iowa Republican National Committee member Tamara Scott echoed the nasty (and completely off-base) conservative talking point that, when mandatory prayer in public school was deemed unconstitutional, it opened the door to all sorts of horrors:

“When the prayer came out in the ‘70s, and that’s one of the things that I prayed for last week in Louisiana with 6,000 people, repentance, because we as a church should never have let that happen, we should never have allowed prayer to be taken out of our schools,” she said.

“Since we’ve done that, David Barton has done studies and research that in your schools, the crimes used to be gum, tardiness and talking. Now it is assault, rape, murder. We’re dealing with much more difficult issues,” she said.

Talk about whitewashing the past… it’s not like public schools before that Supreme Court decision were havens of perfection. Hell, they were still segregated. But more importantly, there’s just no link between the removal of forced prayer and these modern problems.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/02/03/republican-leader-ending-mandatory-prayers-in-public-schools-has-led-to-assault-rape-murder/

[freddyvh]

1. welcome to western iowa

i am sometimes embarrassed to be from here

[OnDoutside]

2. "If Tamara never comes...." to her senses..

[jberryhill]

3. God gets angry if kids aren't required to talk to him

Unless they are forced to talk to God every day, then God doesn't give a shit about kids.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. As someone who has Relatives still in Western Edge of Iowa.

Understand how King gets reelected. The Packing Houses employee mostly HispanPic's and Somali persons. Perfect fodder for the Racist King and his Religious Bigots from hell. Anyone who knows this area will see that it is run by the Old White Guy Club and it is not going to change until they die off.

[liberal N proud]

6. Storm Lake is a microcosm of that very effect.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Funny how that goes.

Called on the Grocery Outlets in Storm Lake years ago. All of the Store Managers and most of the employees were Lilly White to say the least.

When the Packers broke the Unions and the White Guy's lost their Jobs to the Scabs that the Owners brought in,that was the Gas to through on the Bon Fire. King and his Ilk played this to the hilt. Grassley did the same. And of course the Good old German Church Leadership
played it for all they could grab.

And of course the Farm Bureau Insurance Company jumped into the fray to make sure their GOP buds walked away with the prize.

[liberal N proud]

8. My father lost his job in that union busting event

I had worked there a couple of summers. It was damn good money and in one summer, I paid for 4 years of college. Bought a car the second summer.

My dad retired when he lost his job. He was 58, the age I am now and it's strange how history repeats itself. My job was eliminated last fall. Only difference, I can't retire because these fucks stole all the pensions.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Was in Austin for one of the Picket Lines.

Was in Albert Lea the following week end doing the same. And that was Wilson Packing's main Target.

[liberal N proud]

5. I grew up in western Iowa, I understand how this happens

It is insane.