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hello everyone thanks for listening to

wake up lookup a podcast or we connect

events happening in real time to the

Gospel of Jesus Christ and today's

episode we're talking about use my

pronouns or lose your job that's because

in the federal courts right now there

are cases where Christian teachers are

suing either to get their jobs back or

to keep their jobs in public schools

where they're being asked to violate

their own belief systems by using

pronouns that do not sync up with a

students biological sex so for example

in Brownsburg Indiana a music teacher

who's a Christian refused to go along

with the school's policy to use whatever

pronouns a student requested now it is

important to note that in these cases

what isn't happening is that Christian

teachers are aggressively misgendering

to use the cultures language students so

in other words a student who says I'm

now even though I was born male I'm now

female the Christian teacher isn't

saying no I'm going to use he and him in

in all these cases Christian teachers

have offered an alternative one teacher

for example offered to only refer to all

students not just those who want to

change their pronouns by using their

last name another teacher offered the

idea that she would simply not use

pronouns for any student what they're

asking for is the right to be consistent

in the way they deal with all students

but in a way that is not in violation

with their own belief system and what

school systems are consistently saying

is no uh that's not enough and what

really set me off by the way when I was

reading an article in the Wall Street

Journal this week about this is a quote

from one high school principal who said

this and I'm just going to read the

quote to you they said our personal

belief systems matter however if they

are in conflict with what we are doing

here some of that needs to stay checked

at the door well I I don't have time to

tell you all the things that are wrong

with that sentence but let me just hit

you with like I don't know five of them

uh number one high school principal what

you're doing here should be education

not indoctrination and certainly not

weighing in on the moral and

philosophical and frankly genetic issues

that are Beyond you meanwhile in Europe

where these clinics that have been doing

gender reassignment surgery are closing

right and left because Europe which is

ahead of us is realizing this is

damaging to students you have High

School principles who are now saying no

no no it's not just my job to educate

your children with your tax dollars it's

my job also to make sure that we're

indoctrinating all students with what is

increasingly looking like a radical and

frankly stupid approach to H helping

children deal with complex mental

emotional and social issues but I also

notice that this principle doesn't just

say hey what we're doing here but then

they also say some of that needs to stay

checked at the door now don't miss that

because what the principal is saying is

that some people's belief systems and

some aspect of certain people's belief

systems need to be checked at the door

because what this principal isn't saying

is that your support for example of LGBT

issues and hanging Flags in your doorway

that doesn't need to be checked that

part of your value system that can stay

but if you're an Evangelical Christian

whoes beles in the crazy idea that

people are born by the particular sex

that they really are and that we help

people only in so much as we're helping

them to deal with reality that gets

checked at the door what the principal

actually means is that she'll let you

know which parts of your belief system

you can bring into the schools and which

parts you can't which is another way of

her saying the only belief system that

gets to come in without checking

anything at the door is hers and you see

that's the problem isn't it

Public Schools if we're not careful are

increasingly coming places where

becoming places where one ideology beats

all other ideologies one way of thinking

is what gets endorsed and what gets

taught and what gets represented to

students now the message to teachers is

hey not only do you have to do this job

where you don't get paid very well but

you have to believe everything we tell

you to believe and you violate your own

conscience if we require you to do that

it begs the question how much longer if

the courts go the wrong direction on

this that Christians are going to want

to keep teaching and I wonder if public

school systems are ready for the number

of Christian teachers by the way my mom

is a third grade teacher who fits into

this category are going to want to keep

doing this job in the public school

setting listen this is an issue we have

to be paying attention to run for

Schoolboard show up to parent teacher

meetings ask questions think through the

educational choices you make because

what the courts are deciding on isn't

just theoretical and philosophical it's

what kind of adult voices get to speak

into the hearts and minds of your

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