New Education Secretary: Will it make a difference?

musicprnt
Thu, 01 Dec 2016 19:16:15 +0000

While I recognize the variance within loose denominations like the “Christian Reformed Church”, one thing this article doesn’t mention is what her beliefs exactly are, they describe her as “of an intellectual tradition”, but what does that mean? In general, the Christian reformed churches from everything I can tell share a strong conservative bent, and if you look at her background, she went to private Christian schools that some sources claim taught Creationism as science, she grew up in basically a fundamentalist church (again, I will agree it is hard to tell, biased websites are on both sides of things), and one thing I do know is that she and her family have supported groups pushing to break the church state boundary, and I am not just talking school vouchers, on issues like school prayer, and groups she has financially supported (again, reputedly) support teaching creationism as science, this is about her husband but you wonder how much they differ on things:

https://mediamousearchive.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2006/09/23/devos-intelligent-design-shoul/

And their foundation has supported religious right groups, like the Thomas Moore Center, that defend the right of school districts to teach intelligent design as science aka creationism, so it isn’t a leap to wonder what her personal beliefs are…and even if she thinks evolution is real, given the nature of what her husband has said, and what they support, would she be likely to not support teaching “intelligent design” in schools as science?