LET IT SLIP???
Can we surmise that your son was sneaking and sly by trying to sneakily spread a little “salt and light” around while their bosses aren’t looking! ( What an example of “Christian” living they are!) ?
Unlike too many in the teaching profession, my son **WAS** willing to lose his job for his religious principles.
My son will find other work. It likely will not be in government, and especially a not government school. He would never agree to teach children what he knew in his heart was false. He would never aid and assist others in doing teaching falsehood either.
The actual event that began all the hostility, was when he declined to contribute an office lottery ticket. That’s when it came out that in our religion, we don’t gamble or participate in the state lottery. It was downhill with the other non-Christian employees from there.
How liberally tolerant of these employees! Real diversity there! (sarc/off)
In time, maybe my son’s commitment and bravery to keep to his principles will be the very Christian example (true “salt and light”) that may bring a non-Christian from his old office to the Lord.
Amelia,
That should read: “My son would never aid and assist others in teaching falsehood to children either”
By the way, my son lost his job because he was **honest** and **open**. He was asked to gamble and refused. He was asked why, and he told them.
In the bizarre, Alice in Wonderland world of government schooling, would this be considered sly and sneaky?
As a family, we know that he will soon find honest work, and honest and tolerant people with whom to work. He, his wife, his five children, and the new baby to come in July, will all be richly blessed. They **are** richly blessed right now with the Gospel and the great love that they have for the Lord and for each other.
I am very, very proud of my good son. There is no greater blessing on this earth ( or in heaven) than to be blessed with a good son.