Oregon school district forces lgbtq student to read bible
Religion in the Public Schools
More than 55 years after the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling remarkable down school-sponsored prayer, Americans continue to fight over the place of religion in public schools. Questions about religion in the classroom no longer build quite as many headlines as they once did, but the issue remains an important battleground in the broader conflict over religion’s role in widespread life.
Some Americans are troubled by what they observe as an effort on the part of federal courts and civil liberties advocates to exclude God and religious sentiment from public schools. Such an effort, these Americans think, infringes on the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.
Many civil libertarians and others, meanwhile, voice concern that conservative Christians and others are trying to impose their values on students. Federal courts, they point out, consistently have interpreted the First Amendment’s prohibition on the establishment of religion to forbid state sponsorship of prayer and most other religious activities in public schools.
This debate centers on public schools; very few people are arguing that religious doctrine cannot
An Oregon principal has resigned after a months-long analysis into how the steep school under his leaders discriminated against LGBTQ students, including forcing them to read the Bible as punishment.
When Liv Funk and Hailey Smith, two female students at North Bend High School in Coos County, began dating website , they started to meet discrimination — and even threats to their shelter — from students and staff alike. For example, one teacher equated homosexuality with bestiality, and the school’s police officer told the young couple they were going to hell.
“One of the first major incidents happened just a couple months after the start of my sophomore year,” Funk wrote in a public letter. “My girlfriend and I were walking to her car. The principal’s son was in his machine and accelerated very seal to us, yelling ‘faggot’ out the window as he drove away.”
More generally, Funk and Smith said LGBT students faced harsher discipline than their straight peers, and all students had to recite Bible passages as punishment. When the two complained about the treatment, their school counselor and a professor at the Willamette University College of Commandment helped them take their case to the Ore
Mat dos Santos,
General Counsel and Managing Attorney,
Our Children's Trust
Kelly Simon,
Legal Director, ACLU of Oregon
Last month, a professor at Willamette University College of Law reached out to our office for help on a case her student-run legal clinic had been working on. It was, Professor Warren Binford said, one of the worst cases of discrimination at a educational facility that she had ever seen in Oregon. In our job, we catch a lot of awful and heartbreaking cases, but the cruel treatment of LGBTQ students at North Bend High School shocked us.
LGBTQ students at the rural school on the Oregon coast have been harassed, threatened, bullied, and assaulted just for creature who they are. What is worse is that when these students turned to the adults in charge to protect them, the school administrators, teachers, and staff ignored their pleas for help. Instead they told one of our clients she was going to hell for being gay, subjected LGBTQ students to harsher discipline than their straight peers, and equated homosexuality with bestiality. We also learned that both LGBTQ students and straight students contain been forced to recite Bible passages as a punishment.
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A transgender student, her crusading mom — and an English teacher caught in the middle
One year after Ren’s runaway attempt, in January 2022, Sharla establish girl’s clothing in Ren’s bedroom, setting off a unused round of arguments.
Afterward, Sharla texted her ex-husband. Their toddler, she said, was in desperate necessitate of psychiatric nurture “to help with gender dysphoria.”
Rich had been taking a much different approach to Ren’s gender identity. After she came out to him on a long car go, he remembered telling her, “Is that it? Is that what you were so worried about telling me?” Well-off said he told Ren what mattered to him was that she worked hard and was kind.
In his mid-60s and having grown up in a vastly different era, Rich said he did his finest to understand and accommodate his youngster — sometimes messing up along the way. He struggled at first to use the right gender titles around the house. So he and Ren’s stepmother made a pronoun jar and dropped in a dollar every second one of them said “he” instead of “she.”
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