San Benito, Texas, Teacher Removed After Claiming She Is Married To God, Ranting About Impending Apocalypse (VIDEO)

After launching into a bizarre rant in which she claimed to be married to God, pregnant with his child, and predicted the pending apocalypse, a teacher at Veterans Memorial Academy in San Benito, Texas, has been removed, the Houston Press reports.

According to the paper's blog, the teacher claimed God's army would destroy the world on December 21, 2012, but that Jesus had another planet ready for them where everyone "was always 25 years old," and money doesn't exist.

“I am married to God, and I don’t know what’s going to happen to my husband that’s here (on earth),” she said, according to the San Benito News. “One of my eyes is mine and the other one belongs to God, so God is watching what you all are doing.”

At the end of the video -- most of which is in Spanish -- a school official can be seen entering the classroom and leading the teacher into the hall.

While San Benito Consolidated Independent School District Superintendent Antonio G. Limón would not reveal the identity of the teacher to the San Benito News, the district did provide a formal statement about the incident:

“An incident involving a San Benito Veterans Memorial Academy teacher remains under review by campus and district officials. Students in the classroom alerted other school personnel who responded by escorting the teacher out of the classroom during the recent incident. San Benito CISD wants to assure the parents that a replacement teacher has been assigned to fulfill the classroom duties of the teacher in question and will remain there for the remainder of the school year. The issue in question is considered a personnel matter, therefore, the district is not at liberty to disclose any additional information or divulge specific details about the district’s specific course of action.”

According to the Monitor, district officials said the incident may have been the result of the teacher having an adverse reaction to medication.

KGBT-TV reports the 12-minute video was filmed by a student while others ran out of the classroom to get help.

Watch the student's video above.

Comments

[P Alan Greene]

07:23 AM on 05/22/2012

There is something messed up about covering these assorted local eruptions of weirdness as actual national news.

[perlin]

10:30 AM on 05/19/2012

Obviously this person had a psychotic break due to the mental illness , a brain tumor or other medical condition. She is not a first or last person to have a medical condition that causes psychosis. She needs get a medical attention. What upsets me is the treatment she got from the media including Huntington Post who decided to sell her to the public as a "crazy teacher". Shame on the media, shame on people not having compassion toward ill and weak. What if this woman has a brain tumor or mental illness? Is it necessary to publish where she works and what job she has? Why does this article go into the details of her psychotic break ? This case should get zero attention from the media. After all thousands of people get ill every day. Do we have to get into every detail of their illnesses and make it " the sensation" of the day? Show some compassion Huffington Post.

[Okey Umez]

10:11 AM on 05/19/2012

This lady better call Michele Bachmann.

[Okey Umez]

10:10 AM on 05/19/2012

If Texas officials are capable of recognizing delusions, i'd say we give them another chance to be part of the union.

[Anpan]

04:48 PM on 05/17/2012

That's really sad, looks like a psychotic or schizophrenic break. I hope she gets help. I don't know why this is in the news, it's a private health issues. Heartbreaking. On the other hand, please note, this is what usually happens when someone "loses it". The mentally ill are just sick, not generally violent.

[perlin]

07:15 PM on 05/19/2012

You are right. Why this is in the news? It is a private health problem.

[Pamla Perez]

02:15 PM on 05/17/2012

Poor lady! Don’t laugh, because we all are just a mind slip away from jumping up and down in the street.

[Rev Edwin W North]

12:57 PM on 05/17/2012

religion poisons everything

[JumpStreet1983]

12:31 PM on 05/17/2012

Severe mental illness, unchecked or unmedicated, is a dangerous game. Hope this woman gets the help she needs.

[Jay Darnell]

10:46 AM on 05/17/2012

This is why we don't need religion of any kind in our public schools.

[sweatermoose]

12:24 AM on 05/17/2012

Poor lady, I hope she gets her meds sorted out.

[MJinCanada]

12:07 PM on 05/17/2012

And has a proper mental evaluation too. This might be stress or schizophrenia -- and for her sake I sincerely hope not the latter.

Must have been a bit scary for the kids too.

[onewhothinks]

10:27 AM on 05/17/2012

I don't think they believe in Jesus.

[TheBlackBot]

10:35 AM on 05/17/2012

I fail to see how scientology is any more bizarre than any other religion

[paleoimage]

10:59 AM on 05/17/2012

every religion - when you stop to scrutinize the core beliefs - is bizarre

[LiberalRick]

10:38 PM on 05/16/2012

Okay it is out of place for her to say she is married to god. But in Texas under the new rules, which the Right-Wing Fundie RepubGOPer nuts pushed through, any teacher Can teach using the bible as a base of the teaching. So everything she said would be okay if she did not say she was married to god for every Texas TeabaggingRepubGOPer knows that god would never marry a hispanic... he would only marry a white girl.

[LiberalRick]

10:24 PM on 05/16/2012

Four of the students went to the crazy lady to get blessed.

[UberGoober]

10:26 PM on 05/17/2012

No, she told them that she would perform a miracle, that if they went and looked in her eyes they would see that one of her eyes is the eye of Jesus.

[LiberalRick]

05:39 PM on 05/19/2012

Sorry, my TexMex is really not that good. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[LiberalRick]

10:12 PM on 05/16/2012

What a religious nut... who would have thought...

[Eldergothfather]

08:00 PM on 05/16/2012

"Rant"!?!?!?! HuffPO people apparently don't know Spanish or English well enough to understand what a "rant" is....
Let me see if I can help:
1: to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
2: to scold vehemently
Didn't hear that...way to sensationalize HuffPo...