I want you to picture a reverend.

He's a Christian nationalist.

He routinely spreads lies that the United States was founded as a Christian nation.

He is affiliated with the notorious black robe regiment, a Christian nationalist effort to recruit, quote, Patriot Pastors and whose leaders spoke at the Jericho March, an event which paved away for the January

6th insurrection. In fact, the person I'm describing falsely claims that the 2020 election was

stolen. He openly supports the January 6th insurrectionists and even wrote a love ballad for the

rioters. He has argued that Congress should always open with only Christian prayers.

He is an outspoken opponent of public education, urging parents to homeschool their kids.

What if I told you that every day he travels to public schools where he preaches to students

and leads them in prayer while school is in session with permission

from school administration. How's that possible? Well, last year, Florida passed a school

chaplain bill allowing schools to appoint untrained, uneducated pastors to counseling roles inside

schools instead of, you know, qualified educated counselors who use evidence-based methods.

The Hernando School District is the first to officially embrace this program by appointing the person I just

described, Reverend John Jack Martin. This is a national epidemic. At least three states have

passed laws allowing public schools to have chaplains,

and over a dozen more are debating similar legislation. The organization behind all these bills,

the National School Chaplain Association, and its parent company Mission Generation,

openly declare their mission to target students to win converts and influence them until, quote,

the saving grace of Jesus becomes well known. Because of them, Florida is now a state where teachers

can't tell any student that gay people exist, but where school chaplains can tell students

that 2,000-year-old myths are facts, that the election was stolen, and that only people who believe in Jesus go to heaven.

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