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First-grade teacher threatened with termination for refusing to read LGBT-themed book: attorneys
Christian Post ^ | February 22, 2026 | Samantha Kamman

Posted on 02/23/2026 7:35:57 AM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands

A first-grade teacher in Nashville, Tennessee, claims that he was threatened with termination and reassigned to a new position after requesting religious accommodations to avoid reading books to children that promote same-sex marriage, which would have conflicted with his beliefs about marriage and sexuality.

Eric Rivera is a devout Christian who taught first-grade students at KIPP Antioch College Prep Elementary School, according to a Wednesday statement from the First Liberty Institute, a nonprofit public interest law firm. KIPP is a public charter school that operates under the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission.

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1 posted on 02/23/2026 7:35:57 AM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Sue the POS “skrewl”.


2 posted on 02/23/2026 7:38:15 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Supreme Court Sucks. Time for the old dinosaur to go along with the U.N. and NATO.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

It’s like Jack Phillips all over again.


3 posted on 02/23/2026 7:39:38 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

“Eric Rivera, what are you doing in jail?”

“What are you doing out there??” Eric replied

Thoreau was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.


4 posted on 02/23/2026 7:42:43 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (The U.S. Constitution is not a suicide pact. Progressivism is a suicide pact.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

GROOMING CHILDREN


5 posted on 02/23/2026 7:43:28 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

You think they’d demand, and threaten to fire, a Muslim teacher who refused to read books about LGBTQ issues to children?


6 posted on 02/23/2026 7:44:12 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Close the public schools. They do way more harm than good.


7 posted on 02/23/2026 7:44:27 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

That kind of LGBQT stuff doesn’t pass as educating the students, clearly it’s indoctrination and does not belong in a classroom. Neither does that teacher.


8 posted on 02/23/2026 7:46:33 AM PST by drypowder
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Dems are extremely tolerant of everyone they agree with.


9 posted on 02/23/2026 7:47:01 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Bon of Babble
You think they’d demand, and threaten to fire, a Muslim teacher who refused to read books about LGBTQ issues to children?

Of course not.

10 posted on 02/23/2026 7:51:13 AM PST by Blennos (This is the official Blennos tagline. Thanks to Big Red Badger. )
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Proves one thing,, school is run by homos who want to flaunt their objective.


11 posted on 02/23/2026 7:57:10 AM PST by chopperk (e)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Sorry, but the school’s name, ‘KIPP Antioch College Prep Elementary Schoo’l, is a tell.


12 posted on 02/23/2026 8:01:08 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Shut down all public schools. Give us our tax money back


13 posted on 02/23/2026 8:08:01 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: hanamizu

What’s the tell? The fact that an elementary school is college prep?


14 posted on 02/23/2026 8:10:31 AM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Whoever ordered those books read should be executed. I will not back off of that point of view. Come and get me. All of this MUST be ENDED.


15 posted on 02/23/2026 8:17:33 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Sue them till you could drive a truck in their ass!


16 posted on 02/23/2026 8:22:05 AM PST by spincaster (i)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

I wonder if the Civil Liberties Union will be involved in this.


17 posted on 02/23/2026 8:24:52 AM PST by econjack
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To: NetAddicted

The tell is the pretentiousness of the school’s name. I’m surprised they didn’t get ‘academy’ in there. Even a high school that bills itself as ‘college prep’ I find a bit suspicious.


18 posted on 02/23/2026 8:38:44 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

I wouldn’t read that crap either.


19 posted on 02/23/2026 8:38:54 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Give it time and the teacher can read the arrest reports for child molestation by the school administrators who are pushing this.


20 posted on 02/23/2026 8:42:37 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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