The woke establishment (I'm looking at you, Big Tech) would have you cancelled for "deadnaming" a person or using male pronouns for a man and female pronouns for a girl (ESPECIALLY if you believe those are the only two options).
But while the clowns are overrunning the circus we call modern life, we still have a few ol' principles to keep the scourge at bay.
One of those is religious liberty, and the freedom to not do something out of fear for the Lord God Almighty.
Stay with me here for a moment:
- Say, theoretically, that He specifically says He created mankind in his image, and that this image is reflected in our binary sex of male and female. Say that literally all of science and human wisdom professes that this dichotomous separation is how humanity (and most of Creation) works.
- Say that He also said, in this collection of divinely-inspired books written across thousands of years, that it was a crime against the very throne of heaven to bastardize that image – whether by devaluing human life, taking it, or warping it in some way that is contrary to His design.
- Say then that a group of pretty smart dudes made a charter for a nation that would imbibe God's idea of inalienable rights and justice, and that foremost among these rights would be the freedom of speech, religion, petition, assembly, and the press. Say these ideas had been explored and debated so much over human history that they had become "self-evident" at the time of this charter.
- Now say that a few hundred years after this charter and a billion laws to back it up, a group of weenie ideologues publicly discipline a teacher from a small Kansas community, threatening her livelihood because she wants to refer to boys as boys and girls as girls. What should be done?
All of this is totally theoretical, of course.
A Kansas teacher is suing her school district superintendent, board members and principal after being suspended for not using a student's preferred name.
Pamela Ricard, who teaches math at Fort Riley Middle School, says she refuses to use the preferred names and pronouns of transgender and nonbinary students because it violates her religious beliefs.
After being disciplined multiple times for refusing to use a student's preferred name, Ricard filed a federal lawsuit against the Geary County Schools Unified School District on Monday.
In the lawsuit, she argues that denying requests to allow her to ignore students' preferred names and pronouns "deprived her of due process and equal protection of law" and violated her First Amendment rights to free speech and exercise of religion. Ricard also accused the defendants of breaching their contract with her.
CNN then makes sure you know that LGBT groups stress how "detrimental" it is to not use personal pronouns.
Supporting delusions, speaking lies, and chopping up kids' bodies with irreversible hormones and surgeries is pretty dang "detrimental" too... you know, on an exponentially higher scale.
"Ms. Ricard's faith teaches her that God immutably creates each person as male or female," the lawsuit states.
Ah, good ol' Genesis 1:27. If you believe the Bible, then you believe this.
If you don't believe this, then you do not believe the Bible, nor do you believe in the One who authored it.
"We proposed a neutral policy to the district over eight months ago that would allow teachers to uniformly address students by their enrolled names," Josh Ney, Ricard's lawyer, told CNN. "That proposal was summarily rejected by the district, so we brought this lawsuit due to the constant threat of termination hanging over my client's head."
The woke cultists will give you no quarter and no common ground, so don't give it to them either. This hill involves the destruction of kids, so be willing to die on it.
In April 2021, the lawsuit says Ricard received a three-day suspension with pay for violations of 11 district policies, including rules on bullying and diversity and inclusion. Multiple appeals were denied by school officials, the lawsuit says.
"Any policy that requires Ms. Ricard to refer to a student by a gendered, non-binary, or plural pronoun (e.g., he/him, she/her, they/them, zhe/zher, etc.) or salutation (Mr., Miss, Ms.) or other gendered language that is different from the student's biological sex actively violates Ms. Ricard's religious beliefs," the lawsuit says.
Ricard may face "further disciplinary action," including termination, if she continues to violate the policy, according to the lawsuit.
"I continue to enjoy teaching my students day in and day out, but the stigma of being officially labeled a 'bully' simply for using a student's enrolled last name has been disheartening," Ricard told CNN in an email. "I love all my students, but I shouldn't be forced to contradict my core beliefs in order to teach math in a public school."
We need about 10,000 more brave teachers like Ms. Ricard!!!
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