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Rocky Malloy is a man on a mission.

And that mission is, in his own words, to deploy chaplains to make America's public 'schools turn into churches.'

For many, it's a worrying bid to erode the division of church and state enshrined in the US Constitution.

It's scarier still when you consider Malloy's historic convictions for drug trafficking and trying to topple Mexico's government.

But for the growing number of Republican lawmakers who back Malloy, it's how to put troubled young people on the righteous path.

It's working. Texas and Florida have in recent months passed laws to allow school chaplains.

Republicans in Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah and several other states are advancing similar bills.

Advocates say having spiritual chaplains in schools can ease a youth mental health crisis, help overstretched teachers, and offer spiritual care to students who can't afford religious schools.

But critics say it's harmful to introduce authority figures to kids without clear boundaries or standards.

Others say Malloy's chaplains will do more than counsel — that they seek to convert students, promote abstinence and discourage homosexuality.

They also note that Malloy wants taxpayers to pick up the tab and pay chaplains' wages.

DailyMail.com has unearthed documents and videos that suggest some concerns are justified.

Malloy's goals go far beyond what even many Christians seek in a public school system.

He heads the National School Chaplain Association (NSCA), a subsidiary of Mission Generation, which was launched in 1999 to bring Jesus to classrooms worldwide.

Members seek to 'enhance HIS presence by infiltrating' the public school system, according to documents seen by Texas lawmakers.

They want to 'leverage one of the largest networks on the earth, the existing school system, and utilize government funding … to teach Jesus in the classroom,' the papers show.

In rarely-seen videos from the late 2010s, Malloy is candid about his goals.

Chaplains should be the only person in a school 'representing absolute truth,' he says.

'They get to define what truth is,' he adds, in classrooms where all else is 'relative.'

Citing the Christian children's author C.S. Lewis, he says they're 'working behind enemy lines.'

US schoolkids get a 'godless education' with teachers who blur the lines between men and women, he says.

In closed-door presentations to conservative donors, he says school chaplains can save them.

In one, he boasts about his group's impressive 'salvation' rate.

Fully 83 percent of students who sit down with chaplains respond 'positively to the Gospel message, accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior,' according to one of Malloy's presentations.