Oregon school district forces lgbtq student to read bible
Religion in the Widespread Schools
More than 55 years after the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision striking down school-sponsored prayer, Americans endure to fight over the place of religion in general schools. Questions about religion in the classroom no longer make quite as many headlines as they once did, but the issue remains an crucial battleground in the broader conflict over religion’s role in public life.
Some Americans are troubled by what they observe as an try on the part of federal courts and civil liberties advocates to prevent God and religious sentiment from widespread schools. Such an effort, these Americans believe, 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 ethics on students. Federal courts, they direct out, consistently hold interpreted the First Amendment’s prohibition on the establishment of religion to ban 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
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 listento 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 organism 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 possess been forced to recite Bible passages as a punishment.
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An Oregon principal has resigned after a months-long research into how the elevated 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 internet dating, they started to meet discrimination — and even threats to their guard — 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 wagon and accelerated very end 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 Statute helped them take their case to the Ore
Ann Rostow: Am I a Unpleasant Person?
By Ann Rostow–
Am I a Awful Person?
Readers, I hold to ask myself a serious question.
I have to confront myself in the mirror and seek if in some way I am enjoying the political chaos that erupts each week. Each morning I check the news on my smartphone, feeling a minor sense of disappointment when I watch that nothing fresh has happened in the world of Trump. Oh, an earthquake, a scandal in some far-flung country, the Nobel prize for literature will be delayed or skipped, it’s raining bullets in Gaza. Who cares? I want to see a blunder, an investigative describe, an unexpected legal twist. The whole Rusher Thing with Trump and Rusher was intriguing enough. Throw in Stormy and Michael and it’s all starting to thrill me. Which is not good. Not patriotic. Not right.
This is not a Netflix binge series; it is actual. It is history. We are entity damaged. You realize how people chat about a generation leaving the planet a better place? I have never really thought about it, but I am witnessing my personal (baby boom) generation undermining decades of hard fought democratic progress. Just a few years ago, we elected one of t
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 start girl’s clothing in Ren’s bedroom, setting off a new round of arguments.
Afterward, Sharla texted her ex-husband. Their child, she said, was in desperate require of psychiatric care “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 distant car ride, he remembered telling her, “Is that it? Is that what you were so worried about telling me?” Affluent 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, Affluent said he did his best to understand and accommodate his child — sometimes messing up along the way. He struggled at first to leverage the right gender titles around the house. So he and Ren’s stepmother made a pronoun jar and dropped in a dollar every time one of them said “he” instead of “she.”
To Prosperous, Sharla’s latest plans for treating Ren sounded enjoy conversion therapy, a perform that’s been shown to increase the risk of suicide among LGBTQ teens. Rich responde