Posted on 06/11/2021 1:13:22 PM PDT by aspasia
Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia plans to appeal a judge’s order to reinstate physical education teacher Byron Tanner Cross, who was suspended days after telling the school board he would not refer to transgender students by their preferred pronouns because of his religious beliefs.
In a statement, LCPS said it “respectfully disagrees with the Circuit Court’s decision to issue the injunction, and it is appealing this ruling to the Supreme Court of Virginia.”
“Many students and parents at Leesburg Elementary have expressed fear, hurt and disappointment about coming to school,” the statement said.
LCPS said while it “respects the rights of public-school employees to free speech and free exercise of religion, those rights do not outweigh the rights of students to be educated in a supportive and nurturing environment.”
In his ruling Tuesday, Loudoun County Circuit Judge James Plowman said actions taken by the school system were unconstitutional, and that the school system’s handling of the situation was “extreme” and “vindictive.”
Cross, who teaches at Leesburg Elementary School, was placed on leave less than 48 hours after telling the school board: “I’m a teacher, but I serve God first.”
“I will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because it’s against my religion,” Cross said. “It’s lying to a child, it’s abuse to a child and it’s sinning against our God.”
Cross is represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, a nonprofit conservative legal organization.
Tyson Langhofer, of the organization, said in a statement, “Judge Plowman’s opinion ordering Tanner’s reinstatement was a well-reasoned application of these facts to clearly-established law. We are confident that, if the Virginia Supreme Court hears the appeal, it will affirm the circuit court’s decision.”
I swear I am DONE with “supportive and nurturing environment”s
And what about the fear, hurt and disappointment of those who do not wish to go along with this insanity?
This teacher should be reinstated.
However, knowing how petty and vengeful many school districts can be, if he gets his job back, he would be much better off transfering to a different school or school district.
That well has now been poisoned.
These authorities will simply find some other way to say he has ‘violated our lofty standards, and therefore, he must go.” You can bank on it. He has zero administrative support there willing to put their own postions on the line.
One of these days someone will do the taxpayers a favor by making these Marxist perverts disappear.
That's settled science. It doesn't matter what the child identifies as because genetically a boy is a boy, and a girl is a girl.
It's been that way since the beginning.
Maybe they can create their own unicorn school for pervert.
Religious beliefs? How about following the science?
“Many students and parents at Leesburg Elementary have expressed fear, hurt and disappointment about coming to school,” the statement said.
I seriously doubt this.
This is a dead-end tunnel. There’s no light at the end.
The Loudoun County Public School Board needs to be found guilty in lawsuits against the board and against inidividual board members. And all of them need to be financially gutted with compensatory and punative damage awards that should go to the teacher.
“I swear I am DONE with “supportive and nurturing environment”s”==
Ditto,and safe spaces and diversity. How much of this nonsense can we take?
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Yeah that goes for us regular Americans too but you can add anger to that. Seems some communists are trying to overtake our country.
Parents need to storm the school board meeting and demand each and everyone of the bastards resign.
Where are the conservatives in congress? Shouldn’t they be fighting for our culture and country?
Dont doubt it, Leesburg is a huge cesspool of liberalism.. snowflakes too scared to live in DC but want to impose their liberal ranting and screaming on someone who wont punch or shoot them, so they moved to leesburg to live a gooder life.
...fear, hurt and disappointment... horse feathers! Do you really think most people are cowering at the thought of someone calling a boy “he” and a girl “she”, much less even caring? It’s not like he was screaming and cursing at students.
Typical hand-wringing hyperbole from the leftist idiots.
How I loathe these people.
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