Do Christian Teachers Have to Use Transgender Students' Preferred Pronouns?

Philenda L. Daniel

Topic: Pronouns and Gender I am strongly, fervently, against anyone being told they do not exist. I am against anyone having to live a life as if they cannot exist and must exist as if they are non-existent because of social constructs, laws, fear, twisted means of justification to any given end, and hate mongering toward anyone who expresses themselves as they know themselves to be. Spiritual murder is as much of a sin as physical murder…and to my mind worse. My perspective is only mine. Your perspective is yours. The perspective I am speaking from: Women do not exist according to a published article in USA TODAY and Gender Study Expert(s). If we want to speak of Physical gender as we do Brain gender, we will be traveling a very slippery slope. If we want to talk about gender identity as if it is the same as the manifestation of physical gender created via… natural organic non-genetically modified, surgically unaltered gender…biology, the same as Brain gender, we would be de-evolving ourselves into non-existence altogether… no matter what gender… is in need of being expressed…while experiencing this particular physical plane. The non-existent woman need not worry about the laws of man, nor the Laws of God, the laws of science. The non-existent woman need not be concerned about parents, spouses, children, friends…as they cannot exist as well. Belief, Spirituality, dinner, soccer, school, work…is non-existent for the non-existent. So, non-existent women be free in that knowledge. I do NOT question how someone exists Spiritually; their physical body not matching up to their Spiritual reality…is I can only guess...is a torment in itself…this is NOT AT ALL in question. An individual who feels they are a female in their Spirit in their psyche is female, male, or a multiplicity…if it is felt in their Spirit/psyche then that is what they are and should be. The slippery slope upon which we are sliding…is to deny…gender identity even to those that the identity to which they were born as a natural, organic, non-genetically, surgically unaltered being that began as either a 0 or a 1 and accepted their physical reality as their Spiritual truth which remains as such… is now being questioned?… and is…today…mocked? Words are important, yes, very important; however, an individual is primary to their experience…to demand…to require by law… a secondary individual in a given primary experience, to know who YOU… the primary writer, director, actor, producer…in your production…is setting oneself up, in one’s own play… for huge disappointments and a great amount of suffering; others are not YOU they can’t see YOU because it is only known by YOU and YOU alone knows how it all goes together. YOU are the primary being in YOUR primary experience… Others can only see you from the outside, and you are the mirror of their experience with YOU… they are secondary to your experience and the secondaries are only as important as You allow them to become in your production. They cannot hear what YOU hear in YOUR head…in YOUR psyche… YOUR Spirit…they cannot write as you write, nor understand the play as YOU understand it because they are secondary…YOU have all the inside information. Feeling victimized, disrespected, minimalized, crying, whining, and suffering when someone chooses grammar that does not fit with your production, as the primary writer, director, actor, producer will only lead to , again, suffering of the primary being’s experience. Creating laws to impose one’s needs on secondaries…for the validation of one’s image as the primary in one’s experience is frivolous and it is not helpful to one, or society as a whole, it only causes more Chaos. As the writer, director, actor, producer, one will not change those who cannot see YOU…not through the vehicle of punishment. How they see you has nothing to do with you. Other people’s choices of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions have absolutely no bearing on you…none. What has bearing is the need to resolve uncertainty of one’s own view of one’s own production, and the unresolved issues of feelings of being victimized. It is easier, and admittedly harder to change oneself…meaning…act…rather than re-act…instead of suffering, choose to love…know in your head where you live…the choice of he, she, you, her, him, etc. is not a personal attack…say within your being…this person does not know me…I do not know this person…I know who I am Spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and I am enough. I don’t need validation from any other source and move forward in the experience of the production of…MY LIFE. I study scholars that study the history of religions. I read book by physical and quantum physicists. They have more love and respect for God, the Universe, Heaven, and Life than those who have commented on this article. It is disconcerting and sad. May peace fill you all and Love guide your thoughts. AS YOU BELIEVE Matthew 8:5-13 Aramaic Bible

Rev. John Bolen

Even though it is scientifically impossible to change your gender or your sex , I believe that every human being deserves to be treated with respect , regardless of the sex they are , would like to be , or any other reason . I personally would not be disrespectful to a person who chooses to use a preferred pronoun , even though I do not agree with it .

Barry Vaughn

The way I see this if the person was born with whatever organ being a penis a male ,so he is correct , vagina being female , so she would be correct . On the other hand if they was born with both then either would be correct.

Jeffery Wayne Weatherholtz

I am a Christian so I'm not going to use that as an excuse. I've read the Bible several times and haven't read about pronoun use...with that said it speaks volumes about honesty and "teaching" our children and discipline. To allow a child to change their pronoun and then force an adult to follow that lead puts the child in the position of authority. Where does it stop? Can they change names? Can they change species just hrlecause they feel like it? The bottom line is that the child was registered in school by a parent as a certain sex. That's what the teacher should be required to refer to the child as. If the child and parent doesn't like it...go to another school and register as the other sex. It's time teachers and the administration stopped giving the students the authority to make the rules.

Tina Jimenez

I work in nursing and if a patient tells me what pronouns to address them i will definitely use it.

God wants us to respect one another. I'm not there to judge my patient, I'm there to care for and treat them.

Some people just get out of hand with the Bible thumping🤷‍♀️

Timothy Lee Stewart

To all my; brothers/sisters, her/she, he/him, them/they, and those of your personal reference of the day ( and I know I got it wrong somehow, which is not the point ) I would like to just take a moment and I'm only just asking a question, but if we all have different ideas and beliefs on a subject that's defines humans emotionally, mentally, spiritually, physically, does a Court of law really have the last say in a matter. It will always come down to what each individual believes to be law in their belief system. Does winning your case in a Court of law make your beliefs the new law that everyone will follow. The biggest question of all is... Where are we going as a society. On one side of the fence (just for example people) we have a Christian and on the other side LGBTQ... Isn't the same law that gives either side the right for justice in their belief system, go against itself? If you're going to go to court based on your constitutional rights for biblical beliefs or inclusion, then to remove or not recognize an individual both fail to follow the law and are both unjustified. Neither side has won. Only one side will feel good.... For the moment. I joined ULC with the understanding that we all had a common goal, a Universal Goal! It would be nice if this wasn't just another media outlet to express hatred towards our fellow human entity regardless of our individual beliefs. Unity with all is my Goal regardless of how naive it might sound.

Strive To Be Happy.

Minister T. Stewart

Kristen Bruno

1. If its a male, refer to as he. If its a female refer to as she.
2. If you can't tell, ask the person if they are a male or female. repeat 1.
3. If they refer to themselves as something other than male or female, refer them to a psychologist. It really isn't difficult. I don't need a bible for that. BTW... Teachers complicit in this "gender indocrination" agenda, need to be put in prison. they are perverts.

Eric Gillett

The world appars to have gone insane. When you are born, you are either male or femal. At some stage in life you my wish that you had been born different. However, if you were born male, you will never be able to bear chilldren. Likewise if you were born female, you wil never be able to make a female pregnant. These are facts. Accept what you are and make the best of it.

Marathuzula

Consider it a nickname and get over yourself

Michael David Marfut

The only answer by default... the teacher, school, etc. should be calling this student by the name given as written/ typed on the birth certificate of the child! Until that is OFFICIALLY changed...

David T. Franklin

You are allowed to believe in what your faith tells you is right. But to direspect someone is wrong. You don't beleive that transgender people are allowed respect my opinion is you are a hypocrite. First thing is you don't judge. If you dont agree then find another line of work that will line up with your faith. God created everything on this planet.

Michael J McDermott

If you FOLLOW THE SCIENCE, the gender of the human is determined by, TWO & ONLY TWO CHROMOSOMES, THE X CHORMASONE AND the Y CHROMOSOMES. Two X chromosomes (XX) makes a girl, whereas an X and a Y chromosome (XY) makes a boy. The bible also states there only two genders, Male and Female. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Gen 1:27

Sex change surgery is only the nice way of to call body mutilation. Whatever gender you were before mutilation, you still that gender after the mutilation. As far as using a pronoun base on how you are feeling at that particular time you fell like calling yourself a female but you are a male, doesn't make you a woman and vise versa.

Rev. Rory

I was a teacher at a religious school. I followed their rules. I taught at a public school. I followed their rules. Is there a passage in any religious book that says you cannot call someone by their preferred name? The name used to reference a person is based on the person's preference, not your beliefs.

I remember a girl in high school that had a first name that one teacher considered a nickname and insisted on calling this girl by the name she thought should be the student's name. Every day the girl politely corrected the teacher and every day the teacher called her by the name she considered acceptable.

This young woman didn't make a fuss, just the daily correction, and nobody was suspended or fired. The young woman grew into a wildly successful, happy adult. The teacher most likely spent the rest of her career secure in her beliefs that she should determine what is right and what is not right. (The girl had a birth certificate that showed her legal name but that didn't convince the teacher.)

Tareq Asfour

Dear Ministers, We are living together and watching the End Times happening right in front of our face’s unfortunately…We knew this teacher would be ridiculed for standing up for her own beliefs. There is many here that are supposed to be standing up for the Lords kingdom and be unaffected. Its the oath and the job that, we must do or we don’t do it at all. I was a appointed to teach a Sunday church class and I sat in two sessions to watch how the Sister would take role and teach classroom. I quietly within my soul screaming out of dismay. After the class I asked her why were you including allot of unwanted lgbtq material into kids class,she replied if we don’t our church will be subjected for law suits and harassment in state of California. I understood clearly that Im not able to teach…

Lady Celynia

There do seem to be two forces at work here. Where do the beliefs and responsibilities of one party encroach on the beliefs and responsibilities of another party. I was speaking about the subject of gender with an employee and found there are currently 72 genders one can choose from at the current time. After looking at these genders, they are not science. All most every one of them seems to be emotionally motivated. I can be this today, that tomorrow and another type over 72 days. How does one know exactly what another's gender is on any given day? It is confusing and today gender can be used to confuse then bully another person. I do not have an answer or even a suggestion. I do think there is very little logic to gender identifying.

Thomas A. Follis

I find it really interesting that so many of you detest having certain agendas put on you yet, you do not hesitate to push your agenda on them.

Barbara Kay Bradford Fenchak

The teacher is being bullied. The child is being abused if they are getting hormones to alter their bodies. Wish folks would keep up on research. Sweden ha found hormones and surgeries to not be in a child's best interest. https://genderreport.ca/the-swedish-u-turn-on-gender-transitioning/

Allen Nace

Transgender students are more likely to commit suicide or attempt it! True. However, the reasons behind that are not clear. Is it because of harassment? Or is it because of an underlying mental illness? Identity Disorders are a recognized mental illness. Does that expose lethality issues?
One may guess that it does.
Gender? well there are clearly two. Male and female. Other identities may represent a break from reality or a delusion state. Maybe you don't like who you are and "make believe" you are someone or something else?
I don't care how people live their life but it is unreasonable to think that everyone needs to recognize ad live in your delusion or make believe world. Go on and live your life but there are issues if you don't recognize your gender. This is not a condemnation of anyone or anything just a reality based statement. In sports to allow gendered men to make believe and perform as women is misogynistic,

Rev. Jack Harte, DD, MscD

Reality of life, comb the bible, and you find very little to condemn homosexuality. Even the story of Sodom and Gomorrah doesn't really condemn homosexuality as much as it condemns those who compromise a man's domicile, his circle of strength, for their own pleasures. It doesn't promote homosexuality, either, rather the union of a man and a woman and creating new human beings. We don't see any real condemnation until we get to the Acts of the Apostles, written quite sometime after it is believed that Christ was alive. The discipline of reserving sperm for procreation was a sacred discipline. Bearing up was a sign of strength of character. They had no idea how much sperm a man could produce, and had little understanding, if even knowledge, of female eggs. If you ran out of sperm, no more babies for you, they thought. These were labor-intensive times. Babies must be made to work the farm, or the business, or whatever, and the girls, to produce more farm hands. Sons and daughters were not trophies. They were links in the chains of continued existence. A man who could not bear up under strong temptation was wasting a precious commodity - the continuation of a people. Today, we have a million ways to prevent births from occurring, and to end them once they do. Ooops, huh? ...and are encouraged to masturbate for mental and physical health. That would have been an absolute, egregious, atrocious sin, a waste of God's seed, meant only for propagation of the species. In those days, anyone using birth control of any sort, masturbating in any way, doing anything with reproductive equipment and by-products, if you will, other than intending it for procreation, was seen as sinful, against God, despite the fact that most never had a conversation with God, and think they know what God wants. Today, we know that you can pump out sperm as long as the prostate works, and we have labor-saving devises. The need to procreate for the sake of continuing the species is not as dire. That having been said, as a species, there is, in nature a binary system. We use the terms Male and Female to designate each element. As a result of the human reproductive system, most have aspects of both elements There are also those who display different proportions of each element. That is not typical. None of the above statement can be seen as anti-anything. The above can be said for nearly any biological system on Earth. Now, that having been said, as well, children, by the very fact that their gender is meaningless from a biological point of view during childhood, should not be steered from their natural courses until they have not only matured physically, but have had some time to adjust to the change from childhood into adulthood, before they can make any decision or take any action to change their from-birth gender. Let them learn to be people, human beings, before we turn them into sexual beings. It seems that the woke community is all-too-anxious to encourage young people to question their sexuality before they even know what it is. It really amounts to sexual abuse. Groups looking to move their agendas forward are pushing this upon anyone who looks vulnerable to their jargon, their propaganda. We all knew kids who turned out very different from whom they seemed in grammar, even high school. Parents are meant to guide their children until they are old enough to guide themselves. Groups, under the guise of goodness, want to take away a parents rights. I could say a lot of things here, but I don't want to muddy the issue. Children are children. Love them. Guide them. Look after them. Accept them for who they are. Encourage those things that are natural for them as they grow. Encourage those things that compel them, with guidance. Protect them from harm like protecting the sprouts of newly growing seedlings. ...but let them become who they are naturally before we try to change them. More and more, those changes are being made chemically, by the way, with hormones, etc., physically, by the way, with surgery, and emotionally, by the way, through intensive therapy, usually performed by advocates of, and profit-takers from, these philosophies. Leave children alone unless they ask for help through their parents, first off, or they show or exhibit an atypical tendency and physical traits of the opposite gender, or it's medically necessary. Beyond that, advocacy groups, Leave Children Alone. Once they have matured to the point of knowing themselves, by all means, if they ask for help and guidance, guide them to their truer selves with love and care. The rest of us, let us accept them for who they know themselves to be in their hearts, minds, bodies, and souls.

Joseph Balletta

I think the problem revolves around the confusion between a «  universal applicability » which takes its faith from a higher being as being equated given equivalency to individuals belief s that are socially relative. Otherwise why not tolerate each other’s differences why must we always judge and condemn except for the fact that if I think that my belief system hails from the most high that mankind in his usually foolery takes it upon himself to have the power over life and death. This error if we want to call it that comes from man’s ego that overcomes a conscience that can stop and look at thoughts thereby then realizing that thoughts are most of the time not truths. The seared conscience will always substitue rash irrational actions for the mediation, doubt and reflection that betokens faith in a higher power. Therefore these conflicts that delineate cancel culture can b e reduced to understanding a lack of faith in each other and a merciful God which st bottom contradict the highest principles of Christianity. One might say that it is another example of the parodixical creatures that we are.

Cortney M. Hollister

Why support or advocate for delusional thinking? Why hide behind a faith argument when reality tells the truth?

Jorden Michael

ok for one there is supposed to be a clear seperation of church and state , meaning she should not be bringing her religious beliefes into the classroom, nor should any teacher ever, as for misgendering stop being ignorant and just call someone by their pronouns they go by it does not affect you in the slightest, does the bible not say do not judge unless you are perfect and no one is perfect except for god, and does it not also say not to judge people, to love thy neighbor, it does not have anything stipulating they have to follow your beliefs or even do things you agree with stop using religion as an excuse to hate

J Michael Darnton

I thought that here, at least, I could find an alternative community that wasn't infested by the angry hatred and bigotry so characteristic of current American Christianity, but no, I was wrong.

Martin Dominger

It all has to do with respecting someone's wishes on how they wish to be called.

Minister Stefanie

I think we're asking the wrong question here. Why are we so focused on whether or not a teacher is within "religious rights" to refuse a student's gender preferred pronouns? Shouldn't we instead be asking why that student's rights to freedom of religion were violated when his teacher imposed her religious beliefs on him?

Michael Barton

The comments so far on this are shocking. Is this a "church" website or a pro-Gay, anti-Religion website?

That being said, this is an interesting issue. Does the school board have the authority to force a Teacher to use improper pronouns when referencing a mentally ill child?

To be honest, this is bad for teaching. Students need to respect their teachers in order to learn. When you put a pointless political belief in the classroom like this, you hurt the student's chances of learning because now they're allowed the position to go against the teacher.

It's bad. If the student has gender issues, they need to get help. Maybe take them out of school for a while until they've been through a round of treatment.

Transgender folks tend to commit suicide, at 40% or more. Not only that, they live a sad life.

Rather than let this issue destroy the learning process, the student should get help first.

Teachers need to be respected at set their rules for the classroom. If they say their pronouns are the natural ones, then that's the rule of the classroom, and students need to respect that. It's really the only way the student will learn.

Christopher H Simmons

I believe that if the government can they will outlaw the bible But they will have one fight on there hands

Lisa Miller

So tired of hearing trans this and trans that. Suddenly every other student in the country is either a she from a he or a he from a she. I'll call it what it is. ATTENTION SEEKING! These kids found a way to be different and most of them still date the opposite sex even though they claim they are the same sex as the person that they are dating. What does this mean? It means diddly squat 98% of them would never undergo gender reassignment surgery. They're just doing it for attention. What used to be a mental illness (gender dysphoria and still is!) is now praised... People need to pull their heads out of the sand (and other places) and put their foot down. No more of this nonsense until they are adults. If they're 18 and want to claim to be a she/he or a he-she... Whatever. But not at 2-17!

Marnell C Keller

Plain and simple- separation of church and state. Teachers are allowed to believe as they see fit and worship their god of choice without interference. But that has to be left at the school steps, in the classroom, the teacher must be as neutral as possible. Its no different than the teacher that pushes a liberal or conservative agenda or the CRT- many parents disagree with this as well. They are also forcing their religious beliefs on their students by refusing to use gender identifying words.

Ronaldo

Not every child born is male or female. Anyone who knows much about science and/or medicine knows that there are a very small number born as asexual or hermaphrodites. The lawsuit against the school states “Ms. Ricard’s faith teaches her that God immutably creates each person as male or female,” so, either God did not properly use her faith to teach her the truth, or she was not listening when He did. I was born male and identified as male for many decades. Now I self-identify as a local god, and my preferred pronouns are 'Lord' and 'Your Highness', and I bring this up every time someone wants to get into a gender debate. It pretty much ends the debate when I make the pronoun demands and stop arguing with, or even recognizing those who refuse to acknowledge me as a god. Many see what I am doing and go along with it.

Dewayne Smith

I have read several comments and I completely disagree. Yes God is love. Yes God will accept anyone who call on Him to be saved. But God is righteous. He has and will judge. The town of Sodom was judged by our Heavenly Father and 100s if not 1,000s of people were distroyed. Reread the Book of Hosea in the O.T. God judged His chosen people for turning away from Him. I am not a profit but I do read with a clear mind. Our country will be judged for many of the same reasons as His chosen people, the Jews.

Shiraz Hussain

A right to a belief is not a right to treat people in an intolerant and cruel manner. These teachers (who seem to believe that they know better than the God who created LGBTQ people just as they are) should not be teaching children or young people.

Earl Leiby

Did the teacher refer to this student as the gender born with? It seems so. If that is the case the teacher in my opinion is blameless. This is going too far teaching children that God errored in creating them the sex they are. Imagine the gall of that. The creator of the entire universe. The creator of everything that was, is and ever will be-happens to make a mistake. A bird will never be a cat. No matter how much the bird wishes it to be true. And if that bird was taught it’s ok to think that, the next cat that sees that bird has its dinner for the night. Things today are completely getting out of hand. Nothing is right or wrong. Everything should be accepted. I am here to tell you that everything should not be accepted. There is a right. There is a wrong. We must be taught to face things. Not pretend they are different when they are not. When we face our challenges that’s when God comes to us to help us grow because of them. Learn from them. Be a better person. Everything is life is not easy and actually should not be easy.

Heather Elizabeth Fitzgerald

It’s bullying and she is free to practice her “sincere religious beliefs” outside the classroom. If she’s going to continue to teach she needs to treat her students with the same respect she expects from others. Kindness costs nothing.

Tony Alvin Owens

It's bullying to make us use terminology specific to LGBQ

Val Jester

This is a prime example of the tail wagging the dog. Notice these are 7th and 8th graders. At this age, these children would be hard pressed to find their own ****** with both hands with the lights on, much less deciding on what sex they think they are. This type of behavior is encouraged by misguided and politically motivated adults whom should be ashamed of themselves if it was not for their emotions over ruling their intellect. It makes not difference what sex you think you are, or that you choose to engage in a life long regimen of drugs to maintain your charade. when your bones are dug up a hundred years from now, a DNA test will show what gender you were. Follow the science, not emotion.

Edward Fenner

Really? High time that people grew up and we don't bow to such entitled behaviour as being FORCED to address people by their choice of pronouns, prefixes etc. If it looks like a boy, expect people to assume its a boy. This is nothing more than two things, attention seeking and compensation culture. There are far more important things going on in the world to start making it a legal affront to make a mistake. Humans do. It's also how people end up in the wrong body, a mistake was made somewhere. Accept this ruling and it actually cancels the concept of people being incorrectly sexed on the basis that there is no mistake, its deliberate... 😂

Robert Edward Szekely

To not do someone the courtesy of merely following a preferred form of address violates a sincerely held religious belief? No, it shows a complete lack of respect and compassion for one's fellow human beings. It harms absolutely nothing and nobody to honor the student's request, whether we personally agree with it or not. Sounds pretty arrogant to me. Not Christlike at all. CINO-hypocrite, in truth.

Chris

It's common courtesy to identify someone as they identify themselves. When I encounter people who refuse to do so, I identify them as I choose to identify them: Bigot, Ass Hat, whatever name comes to mind first.

It always amazes me how so many people who claim to follow a loving god can be so hateful and bigoted and try to hide behind their "sincerely held religious beliefs" while proving time and again they can't actually live by their beliefs.

Tom

Religion has no place in public schools...the teachers and staff should just use last names, without "Mr.", "Ms." pr anything else...

Reverend Kurt

Every conceived embryo is female . The gender changes to male or stays female after a short time in the womb. I m not making any point here just a fact of life.

Rev. Ken Shostad

These people [LGBTQ] have gotten away with murder in my opinion, I think they may be .001% of the population and yet, they are running the entire world. Sickens me... I pray for them often and think ALL should have a voice but I'm against being [PRO] whatever when it goes against the majority to the point that others have to change their lives to accomidate others, what about their freedoms??? Zimmerman studied the downfall of civilizations and one thing they ALL had in common are the following 5 conditions: 1) Alternative forms of marriage [men to men, women to women, etc] 2)Feminist movement flourishes, women lose their inclination for childbirth and childbearing. reduction in the birthrate. 3) Increasing desire and celebration for adultery 4) Growing disrespect for authority, both parents and others. 5) Greater tolerance for sexual perversion; trans, LGBT, gay and lesbian, etc...

Does any of this look or sound familiar?

GOD Bless America, her True POTUS, her Peoples, and Lands... AMEN...

WWG1WGA... Q-ANON... Deus Vult...

Matthew Mastrogiovanni

Yes, Christian teachers need to lead by example. Teach respect. Do unto others and all that.

Reverend Andrew

When I was in school I had a teacher what always called me Drew. I would refuse to answer her and she would get mad . I would tell her My NAME is Andy not Drew" Yes I know drew is another nicke name for Andrew BUT I Dislike being called that." after weeks of this going on she responded with Andy and Drew are both shorter names for Andrew and I like the name Drew better and that's what I am calling you ! So I responded with well you TT's Look like a Torpedo's with the bras you wear so I am going to start calling you Torpedo TT's . She did not like this and sent me to the office . I told the principal until she starts calling me by my name I will be calling her that when He told me I can't then I started referring to by His First Name not Mr. whatever . and Told him Respect is earned and you just lost all of your by telling me I had to use a name that the teacher Like and told him he should transfer me to another class of get used to seeing me because till she respected me She is nos being called Torpedo TT's ! This weno on for about a week till she started calling me Andy I still called her Torpedo TT's for about another month just to prove a point that you need to be Respectful of others .

Charles Jude Platt

If God exists, She or He doesn't make mistakes, except in his very fallible "children." WTH is the matter with ignorant. stupid idiots. We keep.making the same idiotic mistakes over and over, despite what Jesus teaches "why are you looking at the splinter in your neighbors eye, when there is a log in your own."

Charles Jude Platt

WTH is wrong with us? God, if he exists, doesn't make mistakes. We fallible humans do, all the time. America you are a world class mistake & are degenerating yourself, with Anti-God mistakes.

Alexander Arends

The use of pronouns is a matter of the English language and should not have anything to do with religious freedom. I can remember back in the 50s when we were introduced to "Ms." At first, it was to address a woman if you were not familiar with her marital status. Today it is used more frequent, to paralel with the term "Mr.". I suppose one could argue that the use of the honorific "Ms" was against the word of God if it was you belief that man is superior to woman. This argument would not hold any water.

So if a school adopts to add titles to address additional "genders", I don't think one can claim that it violates freedom of religion for those who disagree with it.

Personally I don't feel the need to come up with additional honorifics, I hope all this "wokeism" will go away and that we come to our senses, but since this deals with the English language, you can't have faculty teach english based on personal interpretation. My take on all this.

Charlene Newman

[28] There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28

God looks on the inward part, " the heart" Love one another, don't get caught up in the flesh because God is Spirit, be kind

Robert James Ruhnke

Really wish fundamentalists would stop using their faith as a shield and cudgel for their bigotry.

Daniel Gray

no they dont. they can call these kids by their last name and there is nothing these people can do about it. No matter who says what, if you were born with male parts, then you are and always will be a male. Same goes for female parts. The only exemption is if a person is born with both parts, then the parents make the decision as to who the child will be. Its simple, if the child is born with male internal parts and a vaginal opening, then the vaginal opening is closed. if the child has female internal parts then the male penis would be removed. This is science fact and medical fact and nothing anyone says or claims is going to change this

Douglas Robert Spindler

Teachers as should everyone else should use proper pronouns or non-gender specific pronouns when referring to students. God hopes you will do the same. If you don't you are violating God's law and God will punish you.

Bishop William Dusenberry, DD

As far as I'm aware, I'm the only ULC bishop who can prove the existence of God -- I've got a DD, two sainthood certificates, four other religion-related doctorates -- have an academic Ph.D. two academic MA's, am a Fulbright Exchange scholar and in this capacity, I can categorically state, that God has no gender, hence the only pronoun that should be applied to God is "it." (as in he, she, or it).

Because God is the same as nature (or, what others might call their God because they don't know any better) and nature has no gender, all this gobbledygook about what pronoun should be applied to God is nothing else than just plain gobbledygook.

To ULC'ers who consider God a male, a male who had only one offspring (a son) and a Holy Ghost who is gender neutral -- who acted as a surrogate father so that this God could have a son -- the results just confuse Trump supporting MAGA'ers who believe, that just because their God is a male, males should treat all females as their subordinates.

To all of those, who've yet to study enough basic science, astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, archaeology, physics and whatever -- I say -- after you do so, you too will realize that God is just what the scientific-ignoramuses called God -- before they knew any better.

Nicholas J Page

Yet again another load of tripe God madeAdam and Eve it's only recently people change their sex I have never come across anyone who has or want's to change sex.I was born a hetrosexual.male and I will die A male it's not God's way or feeling to change sex.If you don't like it lump it.

Marcella J Schieffelin

I hope this teacher reflects on her behavior. Her beliefs have nothing to do with how a person would like to be referred to. It's about RESPECT and acknowledging another person. The student is only asking for respect. If the teacher can't do that then perhpas this teacher needs to not be teaching! What message is this sending to the child as well as the rest of the class and the school environment? If she is discriminating against another person due to her beliefs, what other discriminiatory beliefs does she have and what else is she doing to possibly be discriminating against anyone else different than herself?

Marcella J Schieffelin

It's a matter of respect for another human being. It has nothing to do with your own personal beliefs. That's what freedom, self-determination is all about. If that teacher is so offended or feels that somehow calling a person by their preferred name, then I question whether that teacher is fit to teach all students.

David Arthur Lewis

Christians have a very weak and insecure god with a lot of mental health issues, especially about reproduction. My goddess is so powerful they are BOTH cis-male and cis-female AND every flavor of LGBTQ all at the same time! Christian god can only do things that are written in that book. Christian god does not have freedom of religion, as he is not all-powerful or all-knowing.The priests of the book tell their god how he can behave and what powers he may use.

Katelynne Shouse

If you work as a teacher in a Public School System you do as instructed by the Administration and/or School Board for that town or city.......don't like it go find a job in a Private religious school where your bigotry and ignorance will be welcomed with open arms!

Ken Ferguson

We should always respect the fact that even God can make mistakes or if not mistakes then his choices he or she has made for us. Who are we to challenge his or her will. Be kind, life isn't very easy for some.

Rev Mark D

And it also sounds like the school district is not ready to promote students' ability to learn and so the school district needs to be negatively sanctioned as well. In other words, the teacher should win the lawsuit.

Rev Mark D

Sounds like these students are not ready to learn and therefore need to be suspended until they are.

Robin Anne Hannon

I think as a Christian following the love of God, and Jesus's example you should call someone by their preferred pronouns. Look at how many of his disciples were outcasts in that time. He never turned anyone away, and his arms were open. Shouldn't we be the ones with the open hearts, open arms then? Does it defile God's image? Given that God saved every sinner no matter who they were, or how deep the hole they dug, I don't see how it does that. What does defile His image is turning our backs away from those we perceive as different. When we shine the love of Jesus, it is He who will decide rather than us. The letter of the law kills, but the spirit gives life.