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The Wisconsin English teacher, Jordan Cernek, argues in the suit that the district violated his freedom of religion and free speech in mandating the use of the students' preferred names and pronouns.

A high school English teacher is suing a Wisconsin school district, alleging it did not renew his contract last year because he refused to use the preferred names of two transgender students.

Jordan Cernek's federal lawsuit alleges the Argyle School District violated his constitutional and civil rights to be free of religious discrimination and to be able to express himself according to his religious beliefs when it did not renew his contract because he refused to abide by a requirement that teachers use the names or pronouns requested by students.

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[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 17 points 2 months ago

You’re free to say whatever you want. Nobody’s stopping you. But if you choose to work a job where 80% of it is talking, don’t be surprised when your performance is measured by what you say.

[-] irotsoma@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

No "personal freedom" to violate the rights of others should exist when you are acting on behalf of the government, just like you can't advertise AT&T's service while on a call working tech support for Verizon and not expect to get fired.

[-] DougHolland@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

What an unwiped asshole. I certainly hope his teaching accreditation is yanked as well.

[-] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Please tell me which religion he is, as no where in the bible does it say "Trans people are evil, don't believe the woke agenda", it does say however, "Love thy neighbour".

[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

"Your contract WAS renewed, but I don't think we used your information, like your name or identity or anything. I'm not sure how we referred to you in the paperwork, so I guess we won't be able to find it."

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[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

Thomas Jefferson wrote that there should be "a wall of separation of Church and State." Meaning no religion in government matters. Meaning, no tax breaks, no National Cathedral, no "In God We Trust", no "one nation under God."

Of course the people who scream about what the Founding Fathers wanted tend to ignore what the Founding Fathers really said.

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[-] snek@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago
[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

Good. I hope the court throws out his case, and I hope he dies of natural causes, soon

[-] Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 months ago

Ban the bully from the school where they harassed kids. It should always be like that.

[-] Exusia@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Man how hard it must be to suck it up, and just do something you don't agree with because your job said to. What a fucking child of an adult.

This isn't a new debate, he chose to work in a field where he was gonna be asked to do this eventually. I have to call people "valued customers" all day and don't agree with it, I don't see how this is any harder for him to adapt to in his field. (Not that pronoun requests are frivolous and dumb, they're easy to just....do)

[-] graphene@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Trans people should start their own religion and then claim bigots are violating their right to freedom of religion or whatever

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