A teacher has been sacked from a Church of England school after she refused to teach “extreme” LGBT lessons as part of religious education. The Mail has the story.
Glawdys Leger, 43, a modern foreign languages teacher at Bishop Justus CofE School in Bromley, south London, was dismissed in May 2022 after she said she wouldn’t teach LGBT material on the religious education syllabus to year seven pupils.
Ms. Leger, who had taught at the school since 2017, said she was “treated like a dangerous criminal” after she shared her belief with students that LGBT practices were sinful and that humans are born either male or female.
She was later reported to the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) following reports she had upset one pupil with her views.
The teacher of 12 years could now face being banned from the profession indefinitely after a ‘fitness to practise’ hearing in Coventry due to start on Monday.
It is thought to be the first time a TRA case against a teacher at a CofE school has progressed to a full hearing.
Ms. Leger took particular issue with introducing children to the concept of gender and sexual identities, including pansexual, asexual, intersex and transgender, as well as the promotion of Critical Race Theory and abortion.
The RE teaching syllabus included the suggestion that people could be “born in the wrong body” as well as encouraging students to have “allyship” for queer people.
Teachers were also required to screen a film entitled ‘Fit‘ which looks at millennials with protected characteristics.
Ahead of her hearing, Ms. Leger said: “The impact of what has happened to me has taken a great toll on me. The thought of me losing my career for expressing my Christian beliefs in response to questions from students is heartbreaking.
I was treated like a criminal and as though I was a danger for expressing my Christian beliefs.”
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Yet another case where membership of the FSU would surely have been helpful.
My hope is Toby will get on this whether or not she’s a member. This is a perfect test case.
Another case of Christian persecution and anti-reality gender fascism from the CoE no less.
Another case of the CoE selling its soul and losing its own religion, not to mention most of its laity.
The Church of the Gender Fascists.
Evil.
Education;
Socrates; Educations means the bringing out of the ideas of universal validity which are latent in the minds of every man
Aristotle; Education is the process of training man to fulfil his aim by exercising all the faculties to the fullest extent as a member of society.
It shows how far modern ‘education’ has drifted from these ancient concepts that this teacher was expected to teach LGBT stuff as a given fact, much as water is wet and grass is green. The whole LGBT agenda is full of social constructs, various opinions and differing views. If it is to be an educational subject? then if they were being true to the ancient principle of education then it would be presented in its historical and social context with all the pros and cons and contrasting views. Pupils would then be asked to discuss and formulate their own views.
But it seems we do not have education, we have indoctrination, the last thing they seem to want is for people to develop and hold their own views. They do not want teachers who hold to the ideas of Aristotle and Socrates, no, it seems they are more keen to have teachers who follow the principle of Joseph Goebbels.
What did the most evil man ever to hold a British passport promise?
Indoctrination, indoctrination, indoctrination.
That sounds like sex education not RE. If LGBT is on an RE syllabus we can reasonably expect it to include the viewpoint that it is sinful and there is only male and female because that is what some religions have as their beliefs.
Perhaps modern languages didn’t present any opportunities to remove a Christian from a CofE school.
A spokesman for the Aquinas Church of England Education Trust said: “Delivering a high-quality education and supporting the wellbeing of students is our top priority.
[…]
To ensure this is achieved, we promote fundamental British values including mutual respect and tolerance
I was born as a male child and I’m now a man. I consider the notion that I don’t really exist but was just arbitrarly created at birth and chose to accept what I was supposed to be made into extremely disrespectful and intolerant.
“we promote fundamental British values including mutual respect and tolerance”
“intolerable” is a word for what is not tolerable and we all have different limits to what we can tolerate.
So where is the respect and tolerance for this teacher and her beliefs?
Unbelievable.
The Equality Act is meant to protect her. She has a philosophical belief which amounts to a protected characteristic. This is harassment and discrimination on the grounds of her philosophical beliefs.
But then, the Equality Act is really the Inequality Act. Sauce for the LGBTQII++++ goose is not sauce for the religious gander.
Perhaps someone might look up the Gay Cake case decision from Northern Ireland.
Here is the latest twist in this tale of wokery gone mad – who in their right mind would pursue a case like this? It is a conflict between the irrational demand of a gay rights activist to force his views on a religious family who disagree with those views.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-59882444
A gay rights activist has lost a seven-year discrimination dispute over a cake order as the European Court of Human Rights ruled his case inadmissible.
Gareth Lee started legal action back in 2014 after a Christian-run Belfast bakery refused to make him a cake with the slogan “Support Gay Marriage”.
The family firm Ashers said the slogan contravened their Christian beliefs.
The European court ruled Mr Lee’s case inadmissible, saying he had failed to exhaust all options in the UK courts.
The Belfast man has long argued that by refusing to fulfil his order, the bakery had discriminated against him on grounds of his sexual orientation and political beliefs.
He won his original case and a subsequent appeal in the UK courts, but in 2018 the UK Supreme Court disagreed with the lower courts and found in favour of the bakery.
I agree with Calvin Robinson. The C of E is dead but Christianity will never die. Make no mistake, Welby is Satan’s acolyte
LGBT ideology is a secular religion and wants a monopoly over beliefs.