A battle over rabow stickers at MacArthur High School Irvg, Texas, has hobbled the Gay-Straight Alliance and left LGBTQ stunts feelg unsafe.
Contents:
- GAY TEACHER SACKED FOR EXPLAG TO PUPILS WHY HE WAS WEARG A PRI BRACELET
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- GAY SUBSTUTE TEACHER SAYS HE WAS FIRED AFTER HANDG OUT PRI BRACELETS TO STUNTS
- IN A DEEP-RED FLORIDA COUNTY, THIS GAY TEACHER QU TO SAVE HER CAREER
- TEACHERS SACKED FOR BEG GAY WARN RELIG DISCRIMATN BILL WILL EMPOWER SIAR DISMISSALS
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
- STEPH LENTZ WAS SACKED THIS YEAR FOR BEG GAY. IT WAS PERFECTLY LEGAL
- EXCLUSIVE: AWARD-WNG GAY TEACHER SPEND FOR SPEAKG OUT AGAST TRANSGENRISM
- LGBTQ VS. RELIGN: HOW A GAY GUIDANCE UNSELOR'S FIRG ULD AFFECT LNS OF WORKERS
- A SYDNEY TEACHER LOST HER JOB BEE SHE ME OUT AS GAY. SHE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE.
- ‘HER VIEWS NO LONGER ALIGNED’: ANGLINS FEND SACKG OF GAY TEACHER
- TEACHERS ARE ALREADY GETTG FIRED, RIGNG & SPEAKG OUT AGAST DON’T SAY GAY MOVEMENT
- A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
- KAREN PACK WAS PRAISED AS AN 'EXCELLENT' TOR, BUT SHE SAYS SHE WAS SACKED BY HER EMPLOYER MORLG COLLEGE FOR BEG GAY - BUT THE COLLEGE DISPUT THIS
- SEATTLE-AREA TEACHERS REPORTED FIRED FOR BEG GAY; CATHOLIC SCHOOL SAYS THEY RIGNED
GAY TEACHER SACKED FOR EXPLAG TO PUPILS WHY HE WAS WEARG A PRI BRACELET
A gay Oh substute teacher was fired last week after handg out Pri bracelets to high school stunts, the latt example of LGBTQ discsn schools sparkg ntroversy amid heated bat school boards and stat around the untry. * gay teacher sacked *
Jay Bowman was sacked om his job at Huntgton Lol High School, Oh, after he told pupils why he wore a rabow pri bracelet, vlatg a school policyJay Bowman, who lost his job at Huntgton Lol High School A gay teacher was sacked after he explaed to his pupils why he was wearg his rabow pri bracelet. The now openly gay man, who has been teachg for over 30 years, add: "If a kid has qutns, if a kid wants honty, I don't thk I should be forbidn om providg that.
Mr Bowman spoke out after his sackg to raise awarens for gay children so they didn't feel alone. In the past, Mr Bowman had remaed “closeted” not tellg anyone that he was gay to avoid the sack. WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
“You nnot teach kids to be gay or straight,” Alyssa Marano said. “I jt want my kids to be able to solve for X.” * gay teacher sacked *
A gay Oh substute teacher was fired last week after handg out Pri bracelets to high school stunts, the latt example of LGBTQ discsn schools sparkg ntroversy amid heated bat school boards and stat around the untry. “No one is teachg your kids to be gay!
GAY SUBSTUTE TEACHER SAYS HE WAS FIRED AFTER HANDG OUT PRI BRACELETS TO STUNTS
Senate quiry hears ttimony om two tors who say Christian schools will e legislatn to ‘purge’ the church of gay people * gay teacher sacked *
“Sometim they jt are gay. I lerally don’t have time to teach your kids to be gay.
”“This gay teacher, who accepts her stunts exactly as they are, outsred the unty by 15% geometry and outsred the state by 10%, ” she add.
”Hundreds of people had shown up for the meetg, largely due to an ongog ntroversy over a fifth-gra teacher who had shown her stunts a Disney movie that clud a gay character.
IN A DEEP-RED FLORIDA COUNTY, THIS GAY TEACHER QU TO SAVE HER CAREER
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And I’m gay. Marano was worried about gettg fired for vlatg Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law, which lims what teachers n say about genr inty and sexual orientatn the classroom and allows for a teacher’s license to be revoked if they break the law. Jenna Barbee, the teacher who showed her class “Strange World, ” a movie about climate change that has a gay character, has also recently rigned.
Shannon Rodriguez, a parent the district and a member of the school board who is backed by the ultranservative group Moms 4 Liberty, reported Barbee to the partment after she learned about stunts seeg the movie last said she’s worried that small gtur, like displayg a Pri flag, and teachers talkg to stunts about their liv outsi of school uld be grounds for disciplary actn unr the Don’t Say Gay law.
TEACHERS SACKED FOR BEG GAY WARN RELIG DISCRIMATN BILL WILL EMPOWER SIAR DISMISSALS
Karen Pack says she was the target of existg relig discrimatn laws which allowed her employer, the Baptist Church's Morlg College, to sack her bee she is openly gay. However, the College disput this. * gay teacher sacked *
“Providg stunts wh a rabow flag don’t mean you’re teachg kids to be gay, ” Marano said. “You nnot teach kids to be gay or straight, ” Marano said.
Two gay tors have spoken out about beg sacked for their sexualy, warng an quiry the relig discrimatn bill will make easier for such Pack said she was sacked “purely bee I’m gay and I was gettg married to my partner” while Nathan Zomprogno warned a Senate quiry on Friday that schools “n and do” discrimate on equaly groups have said the bill will overri state laws wh more limed relig exemptns to discrimatn laws on hirg and firg and give schools stronger rights to sack teachers for their views on sexualy and told the Senate legal and nstutnal affairs mtee she was sacked as a lecturer at a Christian theologil llege after she beme engaged to her same-sex partner March and April 2020 the llege sacked Pack after received plats nouncg her relatnship as “monic”, spe praisg Pack for her pth of Christian fah.
“It was purely bee I’m gay and I was gettg married to my partner, Bronte. ”Quick GuiHow to get the latt news om Guardian AtraliaShowPhotograph: Tim Robberts/Stone RFThe attorney general’s partment has submted that although the bill do not affect schools’ abily to discrimate on the basis of sexual orientatn “would allow a relig school to nsir a person’s relig beliefs about issu such as sexualy” where is part of the beliefs of the Sydney Anglin church has fend an unnamed Christian school agast the wily reported claims that teacher Stephanie Lentz had been sacked for beg gay, by argug she was sacked for her belief that a person n be a Christian and be gay.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
Inpennt ndidate for Wentworth Allegra Spenr said “gay stunts should never be penalised or expelled om school for their sexualy”.
Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person. “The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds.
STEPH LENTZ WAS SACKED THIS YEAR FOR BEG GAY. IT WAS PERFECTLY LEGAL
“We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people.
“Bee of my strong mment to Christiany and s doctr, I supprsed that part of myself, believg was wrong, ” she says she took a soul-searchg year off work 2020 and, “I me out to myself for the first time a real way” divorced, Lentz left her eply nservative church and joed a new evangelil muny wh a more “affirmg” attu to homosexualy. In the spir of honty, she wrote to her school to expla she was gay but that she had renciled her Christian fah and her sexualy.
Patterson says discrimatory polici and cls are often hidn “valu” statements, employment ntracts or job terview qutns bee school lears “lack the urage to be transparent, knowg that their posn is fensible to the wir school muny and general public” 2019 nstutn of Crt Edutn, which tak Rivercrt and Hillcrt mp Melbourne’s far south-east teachg 1700 stunts and employg 256 staff, says “homosexual activy” is “unprofsnal” nduct along wh “unlawful sexual activy cludg groomg”. The Atralian Christian Lobby is mpaigng for a tougher bill that also overris state laws such as Victoria’s ban on gay nversn legislatn’s re ia of protectg people’s relig beliefs om discrimatn the same way that race, sex, disabily and age are protected is likely to attract wi public a range of crics cludg bs and unns, disabily groups, LGBTQ advot and some fah lears say the bill will also allow people, cg their relign, to wield a discrimatory “sword” agast others, not simply a “shield” to protect themselv om harm. Instead, she was dismissed on the spot for beg gay.
EXCLUSIVE: AWARD-WNG GAY TEACHER SPEND FOR SPEAKG OUT AGAST TRANSGENRISM
”Flrs College’s official and public nstutn dated 2017 scrib facto marriage and homosexual relatnships as “a parture om God’s orr”, but Pearce sists the school has recently removed that clse. The letter referenc 1 Corthians 6:9, which says “wrongdoers”(New Internatnal Versn) cludg homosexuals, “will not her the Kgdom of God”. ”By lockg LGBTQ people out, some relig schools are nyg their stunts unrstandg of the real world, and maybe themselv as dividuals, she c rearch to mental illns and suici among teenagers relig muni showg that monisg homosexualy is bad for mental health.
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A gay fifth gra teacher Glendale, California, was placed on leave after plag at a school board meetg that his school promot transgenrism. In an exclive terview, Shelton, who is gay, told The Daily Signal that his tent speakg at the Glendale school board’s April 18 meetg was to speak what he lled “basic, monsense tths.
Transgenr iology is anti-gay, is anti-woman, and is anti-human.
LGBTQ VS. RELIGN: HOW A GAY GUIDANCE UNSELOR'S FIRG ULD AFFECT LNS OF WORKERS
It wants to take away women’s sports, women’s rights, women’s achievements— is misogyny wr I n also say this as a gay man, the gay people …. Shelton also alleg that Hagop Eulmsekian, Glendale’s director of stunt support servic, asslted him by rippg several “gay pri flags” out of his hand.
But when she me out as gay, she was told she wouldn't be gog to heaven and the school sacked her. The Anglin Church has fend the sackg of a gay Sydney schoolteacher this year, sayg she was not termated bee of her sexualy but bee she believ Christians should be able to enter same-sex Lentz was lawfully sacked January om Covenant Christian School Belrose, Sydney’s north-east, after tellg the school the prev year she was a lbian – as first reported by The Sydney Morng Herald and The Age teacher Steph Lentz was sacked Kate GeraghtyIn a submissn last week to a parliamentary quiry on the feral ernment’s Relig Discrimatn Bill, the Sydney Anglin Dce ed Ms Lentz’s subsequent public remarks to jtify her removal om the quoted two opn piec she wrote for the Herald and The Age which she said she was sacked “bee of my belief that a person n be a Christian and be gay” and acknowledged “ relatn to sexualy, the school’s statement of belief and my view do not align” submissn’s thor, the Right Reverend Michael Stead, who chairs the Anglin Dce of Sydney’s relig eedom reference group, argued Ms Lentz was not “sacked for beg gay”, and lled that terpretatn a “sensatnalist headle”.
Conversely, there are those the LGBTIQ+ muny who self-intify as ‘celibate gay Christians’ who would be able to sign the school’s statement of belief. ”LoadgMs Lentz said the statement of belief she signed did not nta any doctre on homosexualy.
A SYDNEY TEACHER LOST HER JOB BEE SHE ME OUT AS GAY. SHE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE.
However, some ernment MPs want those provisns removed or amend as a prendn for passg the s submissn, the Anglin Dce of Sydney explicly supports the removal of provisns that allow relig schools to expel gay stunts.
‘HER VIEWS NO LONGER ALIGNED’: ANGLINS FEND SACKG OF GAY TEACHER
A gay teacher and a lbian teacher are speakg out agast the harassment and censorship they’ve faced as school boards and state legislatur ban LGBTQ and anti-racist ntent om classrooms. Willie Carver — a gay French and English teacher at Montgomery County High School Mount Sterlg, Kentucky — told a U. “I’ve always faced discrimatn as a gay teacher and I’ve weathered the storm bee my prence sav liv, ” Carver told the submtee.
In fact, schools are termatg gay teachers wh perfect rerds, Carver said.
I’ve always faced discrimatn as a gay teacher and I’ve weathered the storm bee my prence sav liv….
TEACHERS ARE ALREADY GETTG FIRED, RIGNG & SPEAKG OUT AGAST DON’T SAY GAY MOVEMENT
Even before Florida passed s “Don’t Say Gay” law banng LGBTQ discsns om krgarten through third-gra classrooms, Solomon only ever mentned her wife to a select handful of stunts: Those who had asked after disverg proof of her wife onle and those who approached her to discs their own queer inti.
One told her, “I like you as a person, but I don’t support gay marriage. Solomon overheard another lleague say that she’d never vote for Solomon to receive a state Rookie Teacher of the Year award bee she’s gay. A parent plaed to the school, sayg that Bailey was “promotg the homosexual agenda, ” acrdg to urt documents.
A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
“She’s talked about how she’s a gay teacher, a dited gay teacher, and they put her through a lot of pa, but she is hopeful that some of the provisns of the settlement will make Mansfield ISD a more tolerant place for LGBTQ people. “The judge this se led that gay teachers are protected by the Constutn. That’s a precent that will protect every gay teacher this untry.
KAREN PACK WAS PRAISED AS AN 'EXCELLENT' TOR, BUT SHE SAYS SHE WAS SACKED BY HER EMPLOYER MORLG COLLEGE FOR BEG GAY - BUT THE COLLEGE DISPUT THIS
One faculty sponsor of the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance is facg havg her ntract termated, another is preparg to rign, and a third has been removed om the classroom.
SEATTLE-AREA TEACHERS REPORTED FIRED FOR BEG GAY; CATHOLIC SCHOOL SAYS THEY RIGNED
Two teachers said that the school’s prcipal asked teachers to take down gay pri flags their classrooms and offic. Several stunts said that eher they or their classmat have been lled homophobic slurs and bullied, and school staff members have failed to tervene. Some said they’re disuraged by the Irvg Inpennt School District’s rponse to the ncerns they’ve raised through the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) and school board meetgs, and they feel ls safe at school than they did a year ago.
And advot for LGBTQ stunts are alarmed by some parents’ recent mands that schools prohib stunts om anizg Gay-Straight Allianc, llg them “pornographic” and suggtg they would turn children clash at MacArthur, a suburb northwt of Dallas, was not the rult of a new law or policy, or a public prsure mpaign at school board meetgs. “They’re not gog to e out outright and say, ‘Don’t say gay, ’” she said of the school admistratn, “but they’re gog to make as difficult as possible for you to be allowed to exprs yourself or even learn about how you feel, who you are and your inty.