Initially, here I was going to repeat the title from my previous blog from 1/10/23 entitled … “Will the ‘Woke’ Ever Learn?” However, rather than again stating the obvious, I have chosen to give praise to Vivian Geraghty.
Most of the following is taken from The Daily Wire.
Two years ago, Vivian Geraghty was unceremoniously fired by Jackson Memorial Middle School when two students asked Geraghty to use new names that aligned “with their new gender identities rather than their legal names.” One of the students also requested that teachers use a preferred pronoun that did not reflect the student’s biological sex.
Geraghty went to the principal in hopes of reaching a solution, but the principal and his superior, the director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, told her “she would be required to put her beliefs aside as a public servant.” She was allegedly accused of insubordination and told that continuing to teach without participating in the students’ gender transitions would “not work in a district like Jackson.”
She was informed that if she would not participate, she must resign immediately. She was then forced to resign after she said she could not use trans-identifying students’ new names and pronouns due to her Christian faith.
Geraghty said she attempted to tell the principal that forcing her to resign was a violation of her right to free speech, but the principal repeated that as a public servant, she must “set [her] religious convictions aside” or resign. The principal’s superior then handed her a laptop and told her to draft her letter of resignation immediately,
That was two years ago.
Earlier last month a court decided that Geraghty’s former Ohio school district will pay nearly half a million dollars to Geraghty, the English teacher, who was forced to resign after she said she could not use trans-identifying students’ new names and pronouns due to her Christian faith.
“No school official can force a teacher to set her religious beliefs aside in order to keep her job,” Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Logan Spena said in a statement.
“The school tried to force Vivian to accept and repeat the school’s viewpoint on issues that go to the foundation of morality and human identity, like what makes us male or female, by ordering her to personally participate in the social transition of her students,” Spena said.
Kudos to Vivian Geraghty who stuck up for her religious principles.
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