NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A legislative appointee of Republican Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada says public education is a “satanic system” and calls President Donald Trump and Pope Francis “anti-Christs.”
WTVF-TV reports research analyst Scott Alan Buss said in a 2015 blog post that Christians who teach in public schools are “modeling a satanic approach to the pursuit of knowledge.” Buss also said in an online video an education system built on that approach “cannot be repaired. … It has to be torn down.”
A 2016 post by Buss calls the president and the pope “wicked fools” and “anti-Christs.”
House Democratic leader Mike Stewart says Buss’ hiring “is extraordinarily disappointing, but unfortunately not surprising.”
Casada announced last month he was stepping down after a vote of no-confidence following revelations he exchanged sexually explicit text messages about women with his former chief of staff.
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Information from: WTVF-TV, http://www.newschannel5.com
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