Some evangelical pastors who regularly deliver sermons in support of school prayer have recently added a new twist — preaching that Christian traditions are needed in classrooms to stop children from identifying as transgender.
Or, in other words, without cult brainwashing, people might enjoy more freedom to be themselves.
Maybe they can explain why someone like me attended Christian schools, was very devout, and eventually transitioned. Funny thing is, if they’d been less transphobic I might’ve not questioned my faith and left Christianity.
I dunno, I went to Catholic school my entire educational career, including Jesuit college.
I’m still queer as a $3 bill.
Religion doesn’t prevent the existence of queer kids.
It just makes them hate themselves.
There ain’t no hate quite like Christian love.
For those not in North Texas, the three school districts listed are all neighboring districts 15 miles or so north of Fort Worth. They are all high income, predominantly white areas doing everything they can to keep it that way.
Racism in Southlake Highschool unified the city against diversity, with some of the earliest school board meeting takeovers to protect white people saying the N word way back in 2021.
Keller ISD is going big on the book banning, but to deflec, the superintendent was certain to point out it’s not the district, but the parents banning the books. And the board of trustees voted 5-0 to prohibit pronouns in school despite listening to parents in favor of use of pronouns.
Oh and Colleyville, you bastion of religious and racial and gay rights acceptance.
They want to use religion as an excuse since without that they cannot be against gay or trans people.
That’s the only move in the Christianity playbook.
It’s not like their god explicitly says to not hate to people who are different or anything.
Who am I kidding, it’s not like any of them have actually read the Bible.
I agree, i have read the bible from a outside point of view, and i feel like all these people misunderstand so much at a fundamental level
Granted, this was a while ago, and i dont remember the whole thing. But how can you anyway, its so long and inconsistant
I was forced to go to a southern Baptist church for a while in high school, and over the 3ish years I did not hear a single sermon from the New Testament. But, the preacher was a broken record about accepting Jesus as your personal savior.
Imo the Episcopalians got it right. Their philosophy is basically, “If it’s not hurting anyone else, you’re good.”
The world would be a better place if everyone actually followed the teachings of Jesus, because it’s basically just, “don’t be a selfish asshole.”
The extent religion should be mentioned in schools is when discussing major world religions practiced by different groups in social studies and when it played a relevant role in a historical event (like the puritans going to America).
