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Karen Pence Is Teaching at Christian School That Bars L.G.B.T. Students and Teachers
New York Times ^ | January 16, 2019 | Matthew Haag

Posted on 01/16/2019 12:32:30 PM PST by reaganaut1

Karen Pence, the second lady of the United States, returned to teaching art this week, accepting a part-time position at a private Christian school that does not allow gay students and requires employees to affirm that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.

The website of the school, Immanuel Christian School, which enrolls kindergartners through eighth graders at its campus in Springfield, Va., details its religious beliefs and expectations of both students and their parents, as well as those who wish to work there. The school’s employment application requires candidates to describe their faith in Jesus Christ, affirm that they are a born-again Christian and vow to adhere to specific standards in their personal and professional lives.

The eighth item on the application’s “Articles of Employment,” which requires applicants to sign their initials next to a list of beliefs, outlines Immanuel Christian’s definition of marriage and stances on sexual identity.

“I understand that the term ‘marriage’ has only one meaning; the uniting of one man and one woman,” it reads, adding that certain “moral misconduct” would be disqualifying, such as “heterosexual activity outside of marriage (e.g., premarital sex, cohabitation, extramarital sex), homosexual or lesbian sexual activity, polygamy, transgender identity, any other violation of the unique roles of male and female.”

It was not clear whether Mrs. Pence, who previously taught art at Immanuel Christian when her husband, Vice President Mike Pence, was a member of the House of Representatives, had to fill out an application for the position. A spokeswoman for Mrs. Pence, whose office announced this week that she had accepted the job in December and had already started to teach at the school twice a week, did not answer a list of questions about her new job and her personal beliefs.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antichristianbigotry; christianschools; karenpence; virginia; vppence
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To: reaganaut1

Well, we have to have some schools that refuse to cater and recruit for sexual deviants.


21 posted on 01/16/2019 12:45:59 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: reaganaut1

Love the Pence family!


22 posted on 01/16/2019 12:47:34 PM PST by libertymaker
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To: SeekAndFind

The scumbag left can never stay out of anybody’s business.


23 posted on 01/16/2019 12:50:02 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: frnewsjunkie

When/if Pence runs for president, the Democrats will try to make an issue of this. We should be ready for it.


24 posted on 01/16/2019 12:50:59 PM PST by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

I somehow think Karen Pence doesn’t care what the NY Times thinks.


25 posted on 01/16/2019 12:51:25 PM PST by PGR88
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To: reaganaut1

Good. Why we anyone want perverts anywhere around their children?


26 posted on 01/16/2019 12:52:20 PM PST by Pravious
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To: reaganaut1

Oh the horror, how dare she. /major sarcasm


27 posted on 01/16/2019 12:54:17 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, it’s not the Boy Scouts... er, Scouts!


28 posted on 01/16/2019 1:00:08 PM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: reaganaut1

I agree with you. My first thought was, ‘good for her’.


29 posted on 01/16/2019 1:00:39 PM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: reaganaut1

Will any of the GOP support her? Ask Rep. King.


30 posted on 01/16/2019 1:02:13 PM PST by robel
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To: reaganaut1

The failing New York Times reports this as if they’ve just found a smoking gun...


31 posted on 01/16/2019 1:09:58 PM PST by rhinohunter (Dear Mr. Trump: I'm still not tired of winning)
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To: reaganaut1

Rule One: NO POOFTERS.

32 posted on 01/16/2019 1:13:08 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Rule Two: No member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abos in any way at all...if there’s anybody watching.


33 posted on 01/16/2019 1:13:56 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: reaganaut1; All

Who cares? Why don’t people mind their own business? Everyone is offended by someone, somewhere, somehow. “Oh my God! That Gillette commercial was so bad, I just had to stick a knife in my face with outrage!”


34 posted on 01/16/2019 1:18:20 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: reaganaut1

So. A Christian school upholding and hiring according to Christian/Scriptural teachings- this is news? Why not find out the hiring practices and student handbook policies of a Muslim lead school or hey a Yeshiva? Then get back to us with your shocked sensibilities.


35 posted on 01/16/2019 1:19:09 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: dfwgator

Somehow, I doubt that anybody at this school is maltreating the Abos ... Drinking in their rooms after lights out might be a different issue.

Regardless, I fully support their enforcement of

Rule Seven: NO POOFTES


36 posted on 01/16/2019 1:19:45 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: reaganaut1

Her personal beliefs are none of the NYT business. She needs to tell them to urinate vertically along a bundle of twisted fibers.


37 posted on 01/16/2019 1:20:23 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: reaganaut1

The proper place for queer students and teachers is a closet


38 posted on 01/16/2019 1:21:44 PM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Princess Gray Beaver, for President?)
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To: reaganaut1

F*** you and the horse you rode in on, NYT-it is a private school operated with private funds, so they can teach whatever they want and refuse any student they want-this is a Christian school, so they only want heterosexual students and teachers-in other words, NORMAL people...

I don’t think there is any rule that says a 2nd Lady-or even La Primera Dama/First Lady-can’t hold a job if she wants to-so why wouldn’t the 2nd Lady accept a job wherever she wants to?


39 posted on 01/16/2019 1:23:49 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: reaganaut1

Great advertisement for that school. I’d prefer my children go a school that was minus dykes and fags.


40 posted on 01/16/2019 1:25:12 PM PST by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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