Teacher Claims School Threatened to Fire Him for Refusing to Read LGBT Book to 1st Graders
“I just want the whole curriculum to be shown to the parents in a way where they can actually understand”
It’s sad that this is so easy to believe. The left has no patience for this at all.
The Blaze reports:
Christian teacher says school threatened to fire him for refusing to read LGBTQ book to his 1st graders
A Christian teacher said he sought a religious exemption when he was ordered to read an LGBTQ book to his first graders, and he was threatened with termination instead.
Eric Rivera told WZTV-TV that the book conflicted with his religious beliefs because it depicted a girl being raised by two fathers.
Rivera said that initially the KIPP Antioch College Prep Elementary School where he taught offered to allow him a co-teacher to read the book to the children and then called him into the principal’s office.
That’s where he was allegedly given a “final warning” to teach the book or lose his job.
“I refused to read a book that had two fathers on the cover and one daughter,” he explained. “I believe that that is not what God designed a marriage to be and a family to be.”
The book is titled, “Stella Brings the Family,” by Miriam B. Schiffer.
He claims that he had no prior disciplinary history before the LGBTQ incident. He was reassigned to teach technology before he was moved yet again to teach kindergarten.
“I still have the fear in me that I could lose my job for anything that I do based on my religious beliefs,” Rivera added.
The teacher is now represented by the First Liberty Institute, who sent a demand letter to the school asking for an accommodation based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. It was sent Feb. 17 and gave the school 10 days to respond.
The institute also expressed concerns that parents may not have been properly informed about the LGBTQ lesson, but WZTV said that accusation was not yet independently verified.
The teacher wants to return to teaching first grade but refuses to teach the lesson.
“I just want the whole curriculum to be shown to the parents in a way where they can actually understand,” Rivera said.
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Comments
He is absolutely right. Reading a queer book to children is a piece of religious indoctrination and a “religious requirement” for that job. Definitely a “hostile work environment.”
Seems like the NEA should be destroyed under the RICO act for pushing child pornography.
What on earth are you talking about? What pornography?
That’s ridiculous. First of all, what religion even objects to that? Second, even if he belongs to some religion that does prohibit two men from raising a child together (or perhaps only a female child), so what? Does he thing a Moslem or Jewish teacher can be exempted from reading Green Eggs and Ham?!
There’s nothing pornographic about this book, and families such as it describes do exist, just as there exist people who eat ham, whether the teacher likes it or not. Why should all families in children’s books be the same? Isn’t insisting on that religious indoctrination?