Posted on 12/16/2022 6:10:59 PM PST by simpson96
A middle school teacher in Ohio alleges in a lawsuit against her former employer that she was forced to resign after refusing to refer to students by their preferred pronouns.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court on behalf of former Jackson Memorial Middle School teacher Vivian Geraghty by the Alliance Defending Freedom, states that her school district required teachers to participate in the "social transition" of students in her class who have "'transitioned' to a gender that was inconsistent with their sex." Jackson Memorial Middle School is in Massillon, Ohio.
Geraghty, however, refused to participate in the policy because of her Christian religious beliefs. The lawsuit alleges that the school "ejected her" within two hours of Geraghty telling principal Kacy Carter about her reservations to the policy.
"But as soon as Defendants found out that Ms. Geraghty had a religious basis for resisting their attempt to implement an orthodoxy, they forced her to resign. Within two hours of being notified that Ms. Geraghty had reservations about their approach to the issue on Aug. 26, without there ever being any complaint from a student or disruption of any school services, Defendants ejected her from the school," the lawsuit states.
When Geraghty went to Carter and Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Monica Myers and informed them about her religious beliefs, they allegedly told the teacher that "she would be required to put her beliefs aside as a public servant."
ADF Legal Counsel Logan Spena said in a press release that the school district unconstitutionally forced Geraghty to resign.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
"No school official can force a teacher to set her religious beliefs aside in order to keep her job. The school tried to force Vivian to recite as true the school’s viewpoint on issues that go to the foundation of morality and human identity, like what makes us male or female, by ordering her to personally participate in the social transition of her students. The First Amendment prohibits that abuse of power," Spena said.
The lawsuit is alleging that the school district violated the First and Fourteenth Amendment, as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1871.
The nation has gone crazy & Satanic.
No place for sanity or reality in public schools.
Why do people have to kowtow to a few mentally deranged people?
“Forced to resign”
forced - obtained or imposed by coercion or physical power.
resign - voluntarily leave a job or other position.
Why does it have to be because of Christian/religious beliefs?
Why can’t it be for ANY “belief”?
Atheists should be able to object simply because it is INSANE and ABSURD and “denies science”!
This is already settled law...SCOTUS said coerced speech is a 1A violation. Recently, too.
You took the words out of my mouth! You don’t have to be religious to believe that biological sex is immutable.
My objection is not merely religious, it has to do with reality.
Further, I speak Standard English, not a version that changes on-line every day on dictionary.com.
If a man or woman wants to pretend to be a member of the opposite sex, then I will call them he, she, or it — with a scowl. I will not, however, use a plural pronoun to refer to a singular person (regardless of what they pretend to be).
You can’t be forced to resign.
Make them fire you.
I use the pronoun 'dumbass' for all of my students.
Get used to it.
Sue them for all their worth! The only way to get through to these delusional libtards is to take their money like Oberlin College!
Freedom of speech means freedom of speech. We, as individuals, are NOT required to support or affirm the insanity of the lefturds who insist on abviating their intrinsic gender.
How does one refer to a person using a pronoun? Those are used when talking ABOUT somebody, not when addressing them.
The Constitution protects the free exercise of religion, but not the free exercise of science.
The constitution recognizes natural rights. Some are specified, some are not.
The point is,whatever one’s OPINION is, it should be their right to hold it and not be subject to random punishments.
OTOH, honestly every entity should have the right to expel and exclude people.
This all is basically recognized under 4th Amendment, idea of “freedom of association”.
So in some ways the cancel culture is just fine - as long as everyone gets to discriminate as they see fit.
”In your face” is our communist masters' favorite tool to rattle the chains of tyranny that they have wrapped around our necks...
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
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