Three Cheers for Governor Ron DeSantis
August 3, 2021
After “the Broward County school board unanimously voted to require students, teachers, and staff—even those who are vaccinated—to wear facial coverings inside schools when classes begin,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed an order “empowering the state’s Board of Education to withhold funding from districts that enforce a mask mandate.” DeSantis has the crazy idea that parents should “decide whether their children should wear a mask to school.” The county then reversed its mask mandate.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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