Christian anti-vaxxer craziness in Texas measles epidemic. Don't let the liberal Christians get Christianity off the hook.
Christian schools in Texas are a serious disease hazard in a growing measles epidemic. Christianity has caused problems throughout its history. Don't let Liberal Christians use the True Xtian excuse.
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First the reports on the Christian anti-vaxxers and the measles epidemic in Texas.
These are from the Dallas Gay Liberation newsletter.
1st Report
Mennonites, measles and homophobia.
Measles in Gaines County
Key Point.
It is about Mennonites refusing to get vaccinated.
The first death from measles in Texas was announced yesterday.
https://dshs.state.tx.us/news-alerts/texas-announces-first-death-measles-outbreak
Dallas Morning News, Feb. 25, 2025, “Texas measles outbreak grows to 124 cases, possible exposure in San Marcos and San Antonio.”
This is for Feb. 25, 2025, I couldn’t find the number of cases for Feb. 27, 2025, but I am thinking it is much more. They mention 18 hospitalized.
This article has a curve for the number of case and you can see the line is going upward at a step angle.
Assoc. Press, Feb. 26, 2025, “Who are the Mennonites in a Texas community where measles is spreading?”
We learn that they are Old Colony Mennonites, a conservative branch.
Gaines county has a high rate of parents choosing to file for exemptions from the vaccination requirement. This is something they choose. It isn’t like they couldn’t afford it or it wasn’t available.
Gaines County is also home to one of the highest rates of school-aged children in Texas who have opted out of at least one required vaccine, with nearly 14% skipping a required dose last school year. [Boldface added.]
ArsTechnica, Feb 26, 2025, “Unvaccinated school-aged child dies of measles in Texas amid growing outbreak.”
They give the history of measles in the United States and explain what it was like before vaccines were available and how at one time measles had been eliminaed.
The current outbreak in Texas also involves a close-knit religious community—Mennonites—that has largely eschewed vaccination. The outbreak began in late January in Gaines County, which sits at the border with New Mexico. The county is one of the least vaccinated in the state, with coverage among kindergartners in the previous school year at just about 82 percent. That's significantly below the 95 percent threshold considered needed to prevent vaccine-preventable diseases from spreading in a community.
Since the outbreak began in Gaines, cases have risen to 124, now scattered across a total of nine Texas counties. There are also nine cases across the border from Gaines in New Mexico's Lea County. It remains unclear how cases spread to the state. [Boldface added.]
Assoc. Press, Feb. 10, 2025, “Fifteen cases of measles reported in small West Texas county with high rate of vaccine exemptions.”
Gaines County has one of the highest rates in Texas of school-aged children who opt out of at least one required vaccine: Nearly 14% of children from kindergarten through grade 12 had an exemption in the 2023-24 school year, which is more than five times the state average of 2.32% and beyond the national rate of 3.3%.
Anabaptist World, Feb. 20, 2025, “Texas community hit with measles outbreak.”
Anabaptists aren’t Baptist. Totally different. They include Mennonites and Amish.
They try to make excuses for this. But it is fairly obvious that they are religious people derailed from medical reality.
Gaines County is home to a significant number of Low German Mennonites in the Seminole area and has one of the highest rates of children who opt out of at least one required vaccine. Texas law allows children to get an exemption from school vaccines for reasons of conscience, including religious beliefs.
“The church isn’t the reason that they’re not vaccinated,” said Texas Department of State Health Services spokesperson Lara Anton, who noted many families send their children to small private schools or are homeschooled. “It’s all personal choice and you can do whatever you want. It’s just that the community doesn’t go and get regular health care.”
https://anabaptistworld.org/texas-community-hit-with-measles-outbreak/
Lancet, April 2023, “Exacerbation of measles mortality by vaccine hesitancy worldwide.”
Says herd immunity requires 95% vaccination.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00063-3/fulltext
Dallas Morning News, Feb. 26, 2025, “First measles case confirmed in Rockwall County, officials say.”
The Rockwall case was a returning international travler coming back from South Korea.
Again, herd immunity for highly contagious measles requires 95% vaccination.
This article has a map of the vaccination rates per Texas county at the end of the article.
Gaines County has 81.97%. Dallas has a vaccination of 94.26%. There are several counties where the vaccination rates are in the 60 to 70% range. Tarrent County is 91.52%. The counties around Dallas are in the low 90% range. So we are fairly isolated. Of course there are likely pockets of low vaccination in those counties, so we will see what happens.
The Dallas Morning News tries to give the Mennonites a free pass in this article.
It is obvious that many of the Mennonites are against vaccination, but the DMN has the low vaccination rates be a mystery instead.
The Dallas Morning News tries to give the Mennonites a free pass in this article also.
Mennonites and Homosexuality
The Mennonites breakup and splinter and then the splinters breakup. So it is hard to make a definitive judgement, but most of the Mennonites appear to be homophobic.
Most Mennonite denominations hold a conservative position on homosexuality.[48]
The Mennonite Church in the Netherlands and the Mennonite Church USA which had 62,000 members in 2021, about 12% of American Mennonites,[50] permit same-sex marriage.[51][52]
Old Colony Mennonites are conservative Mennonite groups who are the majority of German speaking so-called Russian Mennonites that originated in the Chortitza Colony in Russia, including the Chortitza, Reinlander, and Sommerfelder groups, which are now most common in Latin America and Canada. There are some 400,000 Russian Mennonites in the world, including children and not yet baptized young people. They should not be confused with Old Order Mennonites with whom they have some similarities.
From the above 88% are anti-Gay. About half of the Mennonite churches in Gaines county on Google maps don’t have websites listed and the one I did find, didn’t say what denomination they were.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonites
This anti-Gay website discusses homosexuality and the Mennonite Church, USA. Basically, when they tried to not be anti-Gay, their denomination fell apart. They don’t represent more than a fraction of Mennonites and most of them were not supportive of Gays.
There is a Gay Mennonite group begging to be let into the Mennonite faith.
Advice for the Dallas Fort Worth LGBT about measles
Get vaccinated and get vaccinated soon.
When the fifth or sixth child dies of measles, a lot of people while suddenly want to get themselves and their children vaccinated, and there could be a shortage of vaccine.
With anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of health, he might not prohibit you from getting the vaccines, but government standards in regards to what is needed or recommended could be changed and your insurance might not pay for it.
Or they might decide that it is unsafe and you simply won’t be able to get it without traveling outside the country.
However, even with vaccination, you still have a chance of getting it. It is much reduced, but it is still possible. You will need to do things to reduce risks. I would make sure you have masks and sterilizing solutions before they are sold out.
I am going to put a link to a general guidance in the newsletter about dealing with a pandemic besides getting vaccinated here in this post when I write it.
This explains the concept of differential advantages over homophobes.
Mennonites and the LGBT - Making sure Mennonites get a bad reputation.
Being responsible for a pandemic hurts a religion’s reputation. This is an article from The University of Chicago Divinity School, Dec. 9, 2021, titled, “Christian Apocalypse in Pandemic-Stricken South Korea.”
The reputation of Christianity took a beating.
https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/articles/christian-apocalypse-pandemic-stricken-south-korea
When cases of measles appear in Texas neighborhoods, the reputation of the Mennonites will be impacted severely. They won’t have credibilityh and they won’t be able to push homophobia as much. We should make reference to measles theology when talking about them.
The think the brothers and sisters of the children who die will realize that their parents are religious lunatics who caused the needless death of their sibling and risked the lives of their children. The children who were hospitalized will realize when they get older their parents were religious lunatics and they could have died.
It won’t just be the children of Mennonites who will be impacted by this measles outbreak. There are other anti-vaxxers with other religious beliefs and their religion’s reputation will be impacted and their children will remember. These are largely Evangelicals who are mostly homophobes.
We can expect that memberships in homophobic religions will be negatively impacted.
We need to make sure that the sentimental syrup branches of Christianity and the LGBT don’t let them off the hook.
NOTE: German measles is something different than measles. They are caused by differen viruss. German measles is rubella and measles is Rubeola. I learned his in reading abou a German measles case in San Antonio at the Legacy Traditional School.
Evidently, getting vaccinated with the MMR vaccine isn’t a tradition there.
2nd report. Measles Theology.
Measle theology. The Dallas-Fort Worth area Christian schools with low, very low, and extremely low measles vaccination rates.
Maps of Texas schools with low vaccination rates.
They are almost all Christian schools in the Dallas area.
Dallas Morning News, March 3, 2025, “Map: These Texas schools have low measles vaccination rates.”
Subtitle:
Childhood vaccination rates for measles are lowest in private schools in Texas, state data shows.
The required percenage of vaccination to have herd immunity is 95%. That is the pecentate of vaccination needed such that any infection is not likely to spread.
The lowest is Mercy Culture Preparatory, a private school in Fort Worth with a vaccination rate of 14.3%. They just need one infected student and the whole school very likely could be a raging pandemic and a health hazard to the city. Their main campus is in Fort Worth, but they have a branch in downtown Dallas. But it would also disable a major enemy of Gays and discredit them.
In Dallas there are two churches in the 25 to 50% vaccination range, St. Anthony Academy with 46.15% and Dallas Christian Academy with 25% vacination. (Dallas doesn’t know how to do a legend for a map. The orange is actually 25 to 50%.)
St. Anthony was formerly a school of the Roman Catholic church, but is now independent.
Grace Academy, a private Christian school, in Dallas is at 53.33%. A.W. Brown Leadership Academy, a charter school in Dallas is 60.0%.
North of Dallas is the North Dallas Adventist Academy (66.7%), Bethany Christian School {57.14%}, Coram Deo Academy of Collin County (59.57%), Guidepost Montessori at Eldorado (66.67%), Excellence Academy (38.46%) , McKinney Christian Academy (65.31%) and Collin County Cornerstone Christian Academy (38.10%).
Around Lavon Lake and Wylie, Texas are Lucas Christian Academy (66.67%) and wylie Preparatory School (67.86%).
Stonegate Christian Academy is 44.44%. Grapevine Faith Christian Church is 69.05%.
In the Lewisville area there is the Harvest Christian Academy (62.50%), Coram Deo Academy (63.89%), Temple Christian Academy (69.23%), Lakeland Christian Academy (52.63%)
All of them are mealses outbreak ready to happen.
Likely the students of these schools also have low vacination rates for other vaccines. Their parents vaccination rates for other diseases is likely low also. (In later news we did confirm that the low vaccination rates are for other diseases as well.)
Strategy for Gays
[1] We get vaccinated and don’t get sick and they don’t get vaccinated and do get sick.
[2} These Christian schools get others sick and Evangelical Christianity’s reputation is negatively impacted. Evangelical Christianity is seen as a health hazard, a menace to society and a form of disordered thinking.
[3] The children at these school learn first hand how their parents’ faith is stupid and they leave it.
It is important to use the phrase, “measles theology.”
The map provided by the Dallas Morning News communicates a message about Christian behavior as being disordered. The article should be shared.
3rd Report
Mercy Culture is celebrating low vaccination rate. TX State Rep. Nate Schatzline wants to give them an award.
The low vaccination 14.29% rate includes being low for polio, chickenpox, mumps and other diseases. They are an imminent danger to society.
Mercy Culture celebrates the low vaccination rate at Mercy Culture Prepatory.
The pastor of Mercy Culture saw the news reports and responded.
You can watch him celebrate at this link.
https://www.instagram.com/landonaschott/reel/DG1I-g-xAPx
This is the text for the Instagram Post by Landon Schott.
TO BE CLEAR… I don’t give medical advice I give spiritual advice! BUT… We’ve received hundreds of death wishes against me, my family, and the children of MC Prep, along with dozens of false accusations and personal attacks from the so-called “tolerant left”—all because we have the audacity to believe parents should have the liberty to give or not give their children whatever legal medications they want.
Turns out, the only time they truly believe in “my body, my choice” is when it comes to killing babies. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!!!
Dallas Morning News, March 7, 2025, “Fort Worth’s Mercy Culture celebrates school with lowest measles vaccination rate in Texas.”
The pastor of a Fort Worth megachurch is celebrating that a school affiliated with his church has the lowest vaccination rate for measles of any school in Texas.
Mercy Culture Preparatory, a K-12 private school next to the church, has a 14.3% MMR vaccination rate, according to Texas Department of State Health Services data. MMR stands for measles, mumps and rubella.
Rubella is German measles which is an entirely different virus disease.
The article has a map of the schools in Texas with low vaccination rates.
It has even made the British press.
Republican Texas State Rep. wants to give them an award for having a low vaccination rate.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 7, 2025, “Fort Worth state representative wants to award Mercy Culture school for low vaccination rate.”
Fort Worth Republican state Rep. Nate Schatzline wants to award Mercy Culture Preparatory Academy a “medical freedom award” for the school’s low vaccination rate.
Only 14.29% of kindergartners at Mercy Culture Preparatory Academy were vaccinated for the 2023-24 school year, according to data from the state health department. The 14.29% rate includes such vaccines as MMR (measles, mumps and rubella), polio, varicella and more.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article301662029.html?CID=_poll_openaccess
Varicella is chickenpox, rubella is German measles. When I was young, it was considered a good thing to get mumps as a child, since getttitng mumps when you were an adult could be really very serious.
https://x.com/NateSchatzline/status/1897783600499593727
Notice that it has 279 reposts and 1,400 hearts.
Fort Worth, Texas is in Tarrent County and Mercy Culture is in Fort Worth.
The count at the time of broadcasting doesn’t include New Mexico.
When you hand a pandemic bomb in your city you start to hurry to get ready.
This isn’t unique to Christians in Texas, S. Korean Evangelicals cause three seperate covid outbreaks.
Univ. of Chicago Divinity School, Dec. 9, 2021, “Christian Apocalypse in Pandemic-Stricken South Korea,” by Myung-Sahm Suh.
Christianity was a negative cause célèbre throughout South Korean society. In February 2020 when the first wave of mass infections hit the city of Daegu in southeastern Korea, its origin was traced to “Patient No. 31” who turned out to be a member of an end-time Christian sect, the Shincheonji (meaning “New Heaven and New Earth”) Church of Jesus or simply the SCJ.[i]
And voilà! The pandemic did not stymie their politico-religious fervor. Determined to continue their collective actions, this ultraconservative politico-religious group set up a sort of base camp at the Sarang Jeil Church; spent days and nights together there to pray for the nation; and organized a massive outdoor rally at Gwanghwamun on August 15.[iv] This rally including its preparatory gatherings is said to have sparked the second wave of mass COVID-19 infection in South Korea, since more than a thousand people directly involved with this social movement were found infected by the end of the month.
The third wave came in the winter of 2020 and lasted until the spring of 2021. This time, the blame went mostly to the cold and dry season which is known to create a suitable condition for the proliferation of respiratory viruses. However, Christianity was not completely out of the woods when it came to public mistrust. The most ill-famed example was a case of mass cluster infections that was traced back to religious gatherings held by Inter-Coop Mission at the BTJ (Back to Jerusalem) Center for All Nations. In defiance of social distancing rules amid the pandemic, this fringe missionary group not only ran training camps for lay missionaries but also taught them that both COVID-19 and vaccines were part of a nefarious scheme plotted by “an anonymous organization” (presumably Bill Gates and his associates) for world conquest.[v]
https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/articles/christian-apocalypse-pandemic-stricken-south-korea
Information on Chickenpox, Mumps, German Measles and polio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenpox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubella
Mumps can cause deafness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio
Mercy Culture is in Dallas also. It is very homophobic.
You might get some disease from them.
What liberal Christianity will do.
They will come out with their “True” Christianity argument to stop discussion. Christianity has a long history of horrible deeds and in the United States it is constantly generating crazed lunatic groups. The anti-vaxxer craziness is just another of the typical lunacies that Christianity spawns when it isn’t busy burning witches or each other.
Liberal and conservative Christianity are a team. When conservative Christianity crashes the reputation of Christianity, whether it is defending slavery, white supremacy, being an accessorty to colonialism, attacking Gays, burning witches at the stake, burning other Christians at the stake, burning non-Christians, the Spanish Inquisition, etc. etc. etc, liberal Christianity is there to bail out the reputation of Christianity by saying that isn’t “true” Christianity what ever that might be.
Even though it is historically obvious that Christianity is always engaged in horrific abuses, the liberal Christians are there to argue that not the normal behavior of Christianity. The liberal Christians will argue this hypothetical “true” Christianity exists outside the historical record and so the historical record of Christianity as it has actually existed should be ignored. The following discusses this more in depth.
When the liberal Christians try to bail out Christianity from its latest debacle, we need to call them out on their excuse making.
