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Memphis Christian School Under Attack For Affirming Christian Values
Townhall.com ^ | November 12, 2021 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 11/12/2021 9:08:24 AM PST by Kaslin

A nationally-renowned private Christian school in Memphis is facing attacks from LGBT activists and a radical county commissioner for following the teachings of the Holy Bible.

Briarcrest Christian School drew fire after they announced a training session for parents and students on a Gospel response to sexuality and gender titled, “God Made Them Male and Female. And It Was Good. A Gospel Response to Culture’s Gender Theory."

Briarcrest promised an "enlightening look into the craziness our culture is throwing at our kids and leave equipped with a gospel response to share with them."

"When Superman is rewritten to be a homosexual, when parents allow children to choose their genders, and some schools are embracing students for being courageous by ‘coming out’ and considering transitioning...how do you respond biblically," the school pointed out in promotional materials.

LGBT activist Dylan Sandifer accused the school of promoting bigoted ideas.

“I understand that as a private school they can teach anything that they want, but that doesn’t mean that it’s right,” he told television station WREG. “I’m more concerned with LGBTQ students who are going to the recipients of hatred and rejection by the adults they look up to as authority figures, their parents, and their teachers as well their peers who are getting those ideas from their authority figures."

And the radical activists weren't the only ones triggered by the private school's lessons.

“There has to be a reckoning with these institutions on the oppression they uphold and the gates they keep," Shelby Commissioner Tami Sawyer posted on her Twitter feed.

She accused the school of spreading "hateful drivel against LGBTQ children."

In a statement to KWAM NewsTalk 107.9 FM, Briarcrest defended its commitment to teaching "students about all aspects of biblical truth, including biblical sexuality."

“Briarcrest is a Christian School that teaches and upholds the biblical principles found in scripture. We affirm our unity in Christ and that we are all created equal in God’s eyes. We will continue to strive to teach our students what is true and just in light of God’s word. We love people enough to tell them the truth about biblical sexuality. We have a responsibility to teach students about all aspects of biblical truth, including biblical sexuality. In addition, we strive to support parents in their efforts to raise biblically literate children who learn to defend their beliefs with gentleness and respect. Furthermore, as our culture attempts to silence biblical truth, we will proclaim the hope of the Gospel.”

Former Shelby County Commission Chairman Terry Roland told the television station that it's pretty clear God made two sexes.

"If you don’t know what sex you are look in your britches and it’ll tell you real quick what you are," he said. "They have all right in the world and people are tired of the left pushing this transgenderism. I think Briarcrest, they have all the right to do what they’re doing. It’s a private school and it’s a Christian School.”

The government has no right telling a Christian school what they can and cannot teach. And if the LGBT mob has a problem with the curriculum at Briarcrest, they are more than welcome to educate their children in a public school.

If only Commissioner Sawyer and the LGBT mob paid as much attention to the dumpster fire that is public education in Shelby County.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; educationschools; homofascism; john844

1 posted on 11/12/2021 9:08:24 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Ending this is going to take either a Third Great Awakening or a second bloody civil war. I fervently pray for the former.


2 posted on 11/12/2021 9:15:33 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Kaslin

A nationally-renowned private Christian school in Memphis is facing attacks from LGBT activists...........

Who swore up and down that they woild never attack christian groups or businesses, and all they wanted, lgbtq, was to be married and live happily ever after.


3 posted on 11/12/2021 9:15:47 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Kaslin
Briarcrest is composed of primarily white students. Can't have that in Memphis. The blacks and liberals in Memphis don't like anything that is successful or teaches logical and honest history.
4 posted on 11/12/2021 9:17:13 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Kaslin

Of course they are under attack, they are believers.


5 posted on 11/12/2021 9:17:50 AM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: Kaslin

[[“Briarcrest is a Christian School that teaches and upholds the biblical principles found in scripture. We affirm our unity in Christ and that we are all created equal in God’s eyes. We will continue to strive to teach our students what is true and just in light of God’s word. We love people enough to tell them the truth about biblical sexuality. We have a responsibility to teach students about all aspects of biblical truth, including biblical sexuality. In addition, we strive to support parents in their efforts to raise biblically literate children who learn to defend their beliefs with gentleness and respect. Furthermore, as our culture attempts to silence biblical truth, we will proclaim the hope of the Gospel.” ]]

Great statement. Pray that they remain strong and committed.


6 posted on 11/12/2021 9:19:28 AM PST by Bob434
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7 posted on 11/12/2021 9:21:21 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Kaslin

[[“I’m more concerned with LGBTQ students who are going to the recipients of hatred and rejection by the adults they look up to as authority figures, their parents, and their teachers as well their peers who are getting those ideas from their authority figures.”]]

Hey Dylan- sounds like you hate what the school stands for and are intolerant of their beliefs which are based on biblical,truth? Sound slike,youmeantmthatnschool,to,you want that school,, the recipient of hatred and rejection.

Turn to christ Dylan, and dispell your hatred for others.


8 posted on 11/12/2021 9:23:22 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Kaslin

The LGTBQP agenda was ultimately created by group of communists and other Satanic creeps stemming from the Frankfurt School.

They fled Germany during WWII, and brought their perversions, subversive ideas, and seditious plans to Santa Monica, CA.

Jesus Christ referenced them some 2000 years ago in John 8:44.


9 posted on 11/12/2021 9:25:50 AM PST by Prole ( )
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To: Kaslin

,It ain’ the PRIVATE school that b as the problem. Its all the knuckleheads that go to a public government school.
( government, i.e., funded with tax dollars vs. privately paid tuitions.)


10 posted on 11/12/2021 9:32:41 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Bob434
"LGBT activists...Who swore up and down that they would never attack Christian groups or businesses, and all they wanted, lgbtq, was to be married and live happily ever after."

Most enlightening post of the day!!

Never, ever, ever, ever, ever think you can achieve peace with the left by meeting them in the middle. The only thing acquiescing to them does is make them smell blood in the water.

11 posted on 11/12/2021 9:39:55 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

I liken compromising with liberals to crawling into a grizzly den, and thinking you will be safe, or sleeping in a pen with pit vipers, and hoping you don’t disturb them


12 posted on 11/12/2021 9:43:15 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Tell It Right

Clint Eastwood said “if you could reason with democrats, there wouldn’t be any democrats” (at least it was attributed to him- I haven’t verified if he said it or not thoguh, but sounds like something he would say)


13 posted on 11/12/2021 9:44:49 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Kaslin

Why doesn’t a group like LGBT start a private school?


14 posted on 11/12/2021 12:10:59 PM PST by healy61
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To: chajin
Who is old enough to remember when the sodomites said we just want to do our thing and be left alone?

And now, we know why our ancestors acted against them in the way that they did.

Who remembers the old Bob Hope joke?

California just legalized sodomy. I'm getting out of here before they make it mandatory.

It isn't so funny anymore.

16 posted on 11/12/2021 1:27:02 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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17 posted on 11/12/2021 1:35:52 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: Kaslin
A nationally-renowned private Christian school in Memphis is facing attacks from LGBT activists and a radical county commissioner for following the teachings of the Holy Bible.




 
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and 
their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men
 from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them
."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

 
We are living in a Genesis 19:9 world...
 

"Get out of our way,” they replied.
“This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge!
We’ll treat you worse than them.”
They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

18 posted on 11/12/2021 8:08:25 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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Amos 8:11 niv

“The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.


19 posted on 11/12/2021 8:12:17 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.

This is how you treat them and look how they treat you back!

20 posted on 11/12/2021 8:17:13 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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