Michigan Elementary School Bans Capta Unrpants over Gay Character – Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

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• GAY AND SEXUALLY ACTIVE STUNTS N’T OFFER ‘CHRISTIAN LEARSHIP’, SAYS PRBYTERIAN CHURCH
• WATCH: GAY CHARACTER CAPTA UNRPANTS SPARKS SCHOOL BAN
• MICHIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BANS CAPTA UNRPANTS OVER GAY CHARACTER

GAY AND SEXUALLY ACTIVE STUNTS N’T OFFER ‘CHRISTIAN LEARSHIP’, SAYS PRBYTERIAN CHURCH

An ele Victorian private school says is movg wh the tim but needs to nsir s overarchg relig ethos, as the church that overse seeks to bar stunts who have premaral sex or are gay om beg school Prbyterian Church of Atralia, which guis Stch College Melbourne’s east, has told a review of Atralia’s discrimatn laws that the stunts “would not be able to give appropriate Christian learship a Christian school which requir mollg Christian livg” church’s rejectn of LGBTQ school ptas was ma rponse to an example om the Atralian Law Reform Commissn (ALRC) quiry, which the feral ernment tablished to review Atralia’s relig exemptns for schools s first formal step toward draftg relig discrimatn laws. ”Former Stch College stunt Andrew Purvis, 52, told The Age he was bullied when he attend the school due to his “perceived sexualy”, and his oral led to s of mental health, who is gay, said he had heard the school had ma mor posive chang, but given the submissn om the church, he qutned “whether the school is really a safe space for gay stunts” College HawthornCred: Joe Armao“My gut reactn to this was, ‘All the poor stunts that are there today’, ” said Purvis, who did his VCE Victorian wg of the Prbyterian Church of Atralia operat five schools the state, cludg Stch College and Prbyterian Ladi’ College (PLC) chairman Mark Chew said a letter to the school muny that “ntrary to what has been portrayed the media”, the school mataed s prry of providg a safe and clive environment for all wh s muny, “which reflects the imprt of God’s grace for all stunts and staff”.

WATCH: GAY CHARACTER CAPTA UNRPANTS SPARKS SCHOOL BAN

’Deputy Prime Mister Richard MarlDeputy Prime Mister Richard Marl told Channel Ne on Friday that the ernment was tryg to ensure relig Atralians were protected, but was unfortable a church group wanted to exclu gay stunts or those havg premaral sex om school ptacy.

MICHIGAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BANS CAPTA UNRPANTS OVER GAY CHARACTER

”LoadgThe Prbyterian Church of Victoria ma a separate submissn to the review and did not explicly object to LGBTQ stunts beg school ptas, but rejected the review’s proposal barrg discrimatn agast gay stunts. ”Equaly Atralia legal director Ghassan Kassisieh said stunts shouldn’t be stripped of learship opportuni for beg LGBTQ bee uld “set them back for life” Prbyterian Church says s schools should be ee to stop gay stunts om beg school terms of the church’s broar submissn, Kassisieh said stat like Victoria – where relig schools n hire people of the same fah when the job requir , but nnot discrimate based on a ndidate’s sexualy or genr – had stck the balance for “fair and reasonable laws” Islamic Council of Victoria said s submissn that Islamic schools should be able to teach stunts what Islam teach on genr inty and sexual orientatn “whout rervatn”, and take actn agast both staff and stunts if their nduct is “at nflict” wh the teachgs. Last month, the board for the Temecula Valley Unified School District, which has several far-right members, voted 3-2 agast approvg elementary school social studi materials that briefly mentned gay rights activist Harvey Milk.

The Prbyterian Church of Atralia wants to refe stunts who have pre-maral sex or are gay om beg school pta.

“The church believ gay and sexually-active stunts will not be able to give appropriate learship a Christian school, ” Herald Sun journalist, San O’Brien told Joe Hilbrand. Republins stat across Ameri are targetg LGBTQ rights through a wave of “tnal gag orrs”, a ee speech group has warned, as nservativ battle to censor discsn of race and sexual inti than 100 bills censorg teachers have been troduced state legislatur this year, acrdg to a report by PEN Ameri – a non-prof which works to protect eedom of exprsn the US – what the anizatn says is a “natnal asslt on our tn system” warng as nservativ have lnched efforts to ban books pertag to race and LGBTQ+ issu om classrooms var stat, while some legislatur are phg to troduce laws which would ban teachers om discsg homosexualy.

Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, which would ban discsn of sexualy and genr inty schools, has already been wily cricized, wh Pete Buttigieg, the US transportatn secretary, among those who have nmned the bill as legislatn was passed by the statenate’s tn mtee on Febary 8, and has been endorsed by Ron DeSantis, Florida’s ernor.

A bill troduced the Kansas hoe on Febary 9 would change the state’s obsceny law, PEN Ameri reported, makg a class B mismeanor for a teacher to e any material which picts “homosexualy” a Arizona, Republins have troduced a bill which would require parental nsent for a stunt to jo a school club “volvg sexualy, genr or genr inty”. “As a rult, ” PEN Ameri said, “gay and bisexual stunts seekg support om their classmat would sentially have to out themselv to their parents first. The actg prime mister, Richard Marl, says stunts’ learship quali shouldn’t be tied to their sexualy as a major church group lls for the right to exclu gay pupils om rol like school a submissn to a review of anti-discrimatn laws, the Prbyterian Church of Atralia argued for the right to exclu stunts om learship posns if they were a same-sex relatnship or havg pre-maral sex.