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Mind the gap!

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"Mr. President, we may have a problem..."

My testimony last week on LB1202

Mostly because out-of-state school choice hucksters had pissed me off, I testified last week on LB1202, Lou-Ann Linehan's School Choice Scholarship bill. This is what I said. My name is Gerard Harbison, and I teach at the government university about eight blocks north of here (laughs) but I'm speaking only for myself. I haven't been flown here by a lobbying group. I haven't served as a political appointee of the Trump administration, like some of our previous speakers. But I did put three children through Lincoln Public Schools, and I have a grandson in public school in Omaha. I want to talk about one thing private schools can do that LPS cannot: discriminate. In 2017, Joshua Payne-Elliot, a social studies teacher at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis, married a male teacher at another Catholic school, Brebeuf Jesuit preparatory school. Under instructions from the archdiocese of Indianapolis, cathedral fired Payne-Elliott in 2019 . Brebeuf refused to fire the oth...

Community standards...right!

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So this does not violate Facebook community standards. Nor does this violate Facebook community standards. This was a comment on a story about one of Trump's sexual assault victims. You guessed it; it doesn't violate community standards. But you better not make fun of the scientology cult! This got me a 24 hour ban. Pretty funny, coming from a clam. But maybe the thetans made you do it. I am in the process of removing myself from Facebook. It makes me feel dirty.