Some friends of mine were Pittsburgh public teachers. Lovely people to a point -— there are insane leftists. I care for them, known them decades, but they are nuts.
“Some friends of mine were Pittsburgh public teachers. “
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I have a very small sphere of friends. It’s hard for me to admit; it is difficult for me to have people in my sphere who are diametrically opposed to my beliefs. If a person can be talked to rationally, perhaps. If a person cannot.....
I’ve tried over the years to retrain parts of my being to be able to accept those who are so estranged from my beliefs. It’s more a ‘shake the dust of your feet,’ thing than a hatred. I ask the Lord God to put in their path someone who can speak to them in a way that will reach them. I know the Lord God has Servants who can reach those who are lost or misguided and it’s not something that everyone can do....
I am in Pittsburgh. My pastor had approached me about serving on our church council. He invited me to sit in a meeting to see what it was like.
A lady seeking assistance for some charity was given time to make a pitch. She handed out brochures for her organization. One of the people who underwrote her was the Gates Foundation.
The Gates Foundation is heavily into supporting charter schools.
Unbeknownst to me five members of this church council were union public school teachers. Katy-bar-the-door the whole thing deteriorated into a very ugly union hall scrum.
I went to my pastor the next day and told him I was not interested.