Posted on 01/14/2023 1:45:14 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Minnesota will soon ban faithful Christians, Muslims, and Jews from teaching in public schools by requiring that every state-certified teacher “fosters an environment that ensures student identities such as … gender identity … are … affirmed.” Once the new requirements clear a final procedural hurdle, they will be immediately challenged in state and possibly federal court, a civil liberties lawyer told The Federalist on Tuesday.
“We have lots of parents who are upset by this sort of thing in schools already,” said Doug Seaton, president of Minnesota’s Upper Midwest Law Center, in an interview. “They’re going to be even more upset with how their teachers are going to be licensed. Their teachers are going to have to be faced with hiding their beliefs or getting denied [for a state teaching license].”
Seaton said it was accurate to describe the nearly finalized regulations as communicating: “Christians, Muslims, and Jews need not apply for Minnesota teaching jobs.” That is unconstitutional, he said, so UMLC plans to sue once the changes go into effect.
The state agency that composed the changes disputed they would effectively ban religious Americans from teaching in Minnesota schools through a spokeswoman on Wednesday. The spokeswoman did not respond to a follow-up asking how Christians, Jews, and Muslims could adhere to their faith while complying with the licensing requirements that all new teachers publicly reject their faiths’ declaration that God has created only two sexes, male and female.
Minnesota’s Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB), a division of the state Department of Education, has been working to change teacher certification requirements since 2019. Its latest public draft, which is finalized save for a few tweaks that don’t affect the content, includes multiple requirements that licensure candidates publicly support critical race theory and transgender ideology and include both in...
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Surely this is illegal.
the Son’s have lost their collective mind...
I’ve been saying all along that the main purpose of the left’s rabid obsession with the LGBTQ+ issue - and particularly with transgenderism - it to marginalize Christians, push them out of key professions (law, medicine, education) and perhaps even criminalize them.
How can they do that?
Because shut up.
The can’t afford it does not fly. They need to simplify their lifestyle and loom for.scholarships. Or have one parent quit a job, downsize from the McMansion and homeschool.
Turning your children over to monsters makes you an accessory to their abuse.
Yessir!
Minnesota had a chance to vote the bums out. They didn’t.
Lord, have mercy on us all.
So only Buddhists and atheists are allowed to teach?
“Minnesota Poised To Ban Christians, Muslims, And Jews From Teaching In Public Schools”
But Satan worshipers OK?????
Tells you everything you need to know, doesn't it?
Yup, I’m thinking lawsuits. Maybe fear porn? Anyone in Minnesota verify this?
The Haredi (”ultra-Orthodox”) Jews can do it even though many of them are rather poor. Why can’t most Christians do the same?
If Minnisota museums get mad, and stop voting Dem, I will 🤣🤣
Muslums.
Only athiest perverts need apply.
Are you telling me to shut up?
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