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Fired substitute teacher in Georgia seems entirely shocked to see consequences for her actions [1]
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Date: 2022-10-11
For background, McAllister Elementary School in the Savannah, Georgia, area originally included All Are Welcome in a storytime program at the school. This would involve an adult reading the book aloud to students.
Barr, whose children attended the school, told the National Review in an interview that she believes images in the book don’t align with her beliefs as a non-denominational Christian. She also told the outlet she believes marriage should be between men and women only.
Barr, who herself had taught kindergarten for four years, worked in education for about 10 years, according to the Review, and told the outlet she wanted her children to be excused from the reading program that included the book in question. She told the outlet she didn’t want her three sons to attend any lessons that included homosexuality, period.
At one point, the Review reports that Barr (after being told she could indeed have her children excused from the reading event for All Are Welcome) expressed concerns to the school principal about a poster hanging in the classroom of one of her children, which allegedly included a drawing of two men and the message: “All adults have the right to marriage and to raise a family.”
“This is an agenda,” she wrote to the principal in part at the time, per the Review. “This is not ok. If I couldn’t post bible verses in my newsletters or read scripture to my classes or cover my students aloud in prayer, this shouldn’t be allowed either.”
And now? Barr is reportedly working as a substitute teacher at a private school in the area … and she’s working with the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (yup) to sue the school district, alleging they violated her First Amendment rights.
Per the review, the lawsuit alleges that the principal fired Barr during a meeting in late August, in which she was allegedly told that expressing her religious views “revealed biases that raised a question [about] whether she could support every child.”
It’s almost, almost, almost like LGBTQ+ people deserve basic human rights and dignity, even if it makes some religious people uncomfortable. Wild, huh?
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