Three years after being forced to return home for wearing a shirt professing part of her faith, a young Tennessee woman just won a nice little victory against school officials:
In a settlement agreement reached in November and shared with The Christian Post, the Overton County Board of Education in Tennessee agreed to pay $101 to Brielle Penkoski three years after she was sent home from the Livingston Academy public high school for wearing the shirt.
Okay, I just need to adjust my eyeglasses here a second and make sure I'm reading it right ...
Okay, so not exactly a bonanza. But it's a moral victory more than anything.
To be fair, the board is also shelling out for procedural fees:
The school board will also pay the plaintiff's attorney's fees and costs.
Penkoski, a minor when the lawsuit was first filed in 2020, "is the daughter of street preacher Rich Penkoski, who leads the online ministry Warriors for Christ."
Ask yourself if a shirt criticizing Christianity or promoting something directly opposed to its teachings would be allowed in schools. Of course it would. So if we truly live in a fair system, you'd also be allowed to wear shirts paraphrasing the Apostle Paul - you know, one of the bedrocks of Western civilization.
Here's First Corinthians 6:9-10:
Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Rich Penkoski said the $100 payday was "way more than we thought she was going to get anyway out of this."
"The other part of this is all the teachers, at least from 2020, were told to start taking First Amendment courses," the preacher continued, adding that that requirement was "one of the things that I insisted on."
A good victory here, all told. Well done, everyone.
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