true colors?
One San Antonio, Texas teenager, Andrea Hernandez, feels pretty darn put-upon and she’s willing to accept a suspension from school to make her point. Her point? That she will not wear the school’s mandated tracking card because it’s the “mark of the beast.”
According to an interview given by Ms. Hernandez’s father to Wired Magazine:The Hernandez family, which hold Christian beliefs, told InfoWars that the sophomore is declining to wear the badge because it signifies Satan, or theMark of the Beast warning in Revelations 13: 16-18.The badge program was implemented at the John Jay High School in the Northside Independent School District (NISD) in San Antonio, in an effort to mitigate growingtruancy and its negative impact on school dollars. In most state-funded schools, dollars are paid on a per-student, per-day ratio and the child’s presence in their chair at the start of the day activates the funding allotted for them. Not there, no funding. So schools have looked for ways to keep better tabs on their wandering student population and the tracking cards seemed the least intrusive and most effective. Not everybody sees it that way.
i know this is Texas anything goes but c'mon this is pushing it even for a state with their reputation.
While some parents and families object on a purely "civil liberties" issue, Andrea's complaint is a more dramatic one. Fundamentalist Christians of the "Left Behind" ilk, have a very specific interpretation of Revelations 13:16-18 in the Bible. In an additional interview given to InfoWars by the Hernandez family, their religious angle is clearly the salient point:
For many Christian families, including the Hernandez,' the mandatory policy is eerily close to the predictions of Revelations 13: 16-18, which warns of the Mark of the Beast:
16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or[a] the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (New King James Version)
wasn't Perry all up in the Evangelicals butts during the primary, weren't their prayer meetings reaffirming their "faith"? faith of what, they do have a track record.
A protest was organized in early October and family appeared on various local talk shows to air their grievances. The pushback got hot enough that the school was willing to make accommodations. Per InfoWars:
In response to public outcry and pressure from rights groups, the school has offered to remove the battery and chip, but wouldn't budge on mandating the ID. Their offer would also require the Hernandez family to end their criticism and agree to comply with and even tout the policy, something Andrea's father Steve Hernandez finds unacceptable.
Steve Hernandez stated, "[A]s part of the accommodation my daughter and I would have to agree to stop criticizing the program and publicly support … it. I told [the Deputy Superintendent] that was unacceptable because it would imply an endorsement of the district's policy and my daughter and I should not have to give up our constitutional rights to speak out against a program that we feel is wrong."
no change there and it is a republican gov't guess they weren't emailed about the new republican morphing.
