VA Democrats Target Pastor Of Teacher Put On Leave For Refusing To Affirm Kids’ ‘Trans Identity’
By: Amanda Prestigiacomo
The pastor and the school teacher are right about these issues. We should not lie to kids about what they naturally are nor should we teach them racism in the form of CRT. It’s time for Patriots to stand with the teacher and pastor here and against those speaking against them. Recall the school board!
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VA Democrats Target Pastor Of Teacher Put On Leave For Refusing To Affirm Kids’ ‘Trans Identity’
Cornerstone Chapel via YouTube Democrats in Virginia have set their sights on the pastor of an elementary school teacher who was recently put on administrative leave for refusing to affirm children’s “transgender identity” because of his Christian faith.
As highlighted by The Daily Wire , Byron “Tanner” Cross, a P.E. teacher at Leesburg Elementary School, told the Loudoun County school board Tuesday “that he will not ‘affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa’ because he loves children who struggle with gender dysphoria and refuses to lie to them.'”
Cross was swiftly placed on administrative leave.
Cornerstone Chapel Pastor Gary Hamrick spoke out against the school board’s actions during the service Sunday, defending Cross, who is a congregant of the church, and blasting Marxist gender theory as abusive to children.
The Loudoun County Democratic Committee reacted by demanding the pastor “recant” his “[u]nfounded statements” that “not only hurt our community that he is meant to serve but have dangerous ramifications for the incitement of violence.”
During the service, Hamrick called the implementation of the left-wing gender ideology a form of emotional abuse to Loudoun County children and denounced inaction from the church. “To be passive, is to be complicit,” emphasized the pastor.
“The school board — some of them, not all — some of them are not doing their duty to protect, let alone educate our children,” ” Hamrick said. “And they are subjecting them to sexually explicit materials … and they are already talking about introducing racially divisive curriculum, they are emotionally abusing our children by perpetuating the lie about gender confusion when they affirm pronouns that are contrary to biology, reality, and the beautiful design of God. So, they need to be held accountable and it’s time to step up.”
Fellow congregants were also allowed access to petitions calling for the recall of six specific “troublesome” school board members.
The Loudoun County Democratic Committee on Sunday released a statement targeting the pastor and demanding he “recant” his “inflammatory and insidious remarks.”
“The Loudoun County Democratic Committee was extremely disheartened to hear that one of our community’s religious leaders made inflammatory and insidious remarks about several Loudoun elected officials during a service at Cornerstone Chapel this morning,” the statement said. “In his Sunday, May 30th sermon, Pastor Gary Hamrick took to the pulpit to accuse six Loudoun County School Board members of ’emotional child abuse,’ opening his chapel’s atrium to political campaigning, and invoking the name of God to incite political action.”
“We are deeply concerned about the consequences of such rhetoric, having witnessed a recent rise in threats to the safety of the Loudoun School Board members. Furthermore, this irresponsible accusation of child abuse minimizes and tarnishes the people and organizations that seek to protect our children,” the Democrats continued.
“We call on Pastor Gary Hamrick to recant his allegations due to the libelous and inflammatory nature of the remarks. Unfounded statements such as these not only hurt our community that he is meant to serve but have dangerous ramifications for the incitement of violence.”
A positron of Cross’ statement to the school board was also shown to the congregation on Sunday. The Daily Wire reported:
“My name is Tanner Cross and I am speaking out of love for those who are suffering from gender dysphoria,” Cross said during his brief speech, which referenced school district policies demanding Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) staff use preferred pronouns and “allow gender-expansive and transgender students to participate in such activities in a manner consistent with the student’s gender identity.”
Referring to an explosive “ 60 Minutes ” investigation that aired Sunday about young people regretting their transitions, Cross continued, “’60 Minutes’ this past Sunday interviewed over 30 young people who transitioned but they felt led astray because of lack of pushback or how easy it was to make physical changes to their bodies in just three months. They are now detransitioning.”
“It’s not my intention to hurt anyone, but there are certain truths that we must face when ready. We condemn school policies [that] would damage children, defile the holy image of God,” he continued.
“I love all of my students but I will never lie to them regardless of the consequences. I’m a teacher but I serve God first and I will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because it’s against my religion, it’s lying to a child, it’s abuse to a child, and it’s sinning against our God,” Cross concluded.
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It's VA....nuff said.
What is this? Flotsam?
Don't matter, the GOP supports the man who fires, makes up lies and false accusations about people under oath and telling the truth.
Conservative values haven't existed for decades. Dog whistles and bedroom politics is all it has.
I’m not sure he is being asked to affirm any such thing. He is just being asked to treat a student the way they want to be treated. Why is that hard?
So if you were a teacher and a student came out and said he or she was god you would approve of having others worship he or she and you would obey all his commands.
It’s not up to the teacher to approve of what kids believe. As a Christian, I believe Muslims are flat out wrong about their so-called prophet, Muhammad, but I don’t need to tell kids that just because I’m their teacher. I just need to teach the curriculum. So, I wouldn’t insist on telling an 8th grade Muhammad Ali that his real name is Cassius Clay or 6th grade Kareem Abdul Jabbar that his real name is Lew Alcindor. I just call them what they want to be called. It’s just good manners.
All of that is much different than calling a mentally Ill boy a girl because that's what he wants or to call a delusional girl that she is a boy
I would refer to them as dumbass.
Even if we accept your analogy for the sake of argument, what is the job of a teacher? To teach math, history, and English? Or to make a child feel shitty about themselves?
A teachers job is not to encourage the delusions of their students
Nor is it to police them.
I am behind you tacos, waiting in the wings... but it seems like you got this....
Nope. I just don’t see how that is going to apply to anything he might be doing as a teacher. All he has to do is teach class. I don’t know why he would even get into a discussion with a student over his biological sex. That’s not his job or his business.
Who cares? Is being Muslim a delusion? Is being a Yankees fan a delusion? Is believing in aliens a delusion? And if even if you think the answer to all those questions is “yes,” how is it the business of the teacher to set a student straight (no pun intended) on those questions?
By your own logic it would be okay for public school teachers to ridicule religious beliefs!
He is simply being honest with them by not enabling, aiding, or abetting their delusions.
We’re not talking about something that requires urgent intervention from a teacher. The student isn’t standing on the roof of the school believing he can fly, or running into traffic believing he is invulnerable. He’s struggling with something very personal that isn’t hurting anyone else. What he needs is compassion and mercy, not judgment.
Consider the other ways a teacher could “simply be honest” with students: “Your religion is a lie. You’re not smart enough to get into college. I’m taking your lunch away from you because it isn’t nutritious - eat whatever I give you instead. Your father is in a political party I don’t like so he hates this country. You’re not fit enough for sports. You should wear nicer clothes and a little makeup so that boys will be more attracted to you. Your father who remarried after divorce is living in sin so he’ll burn in Hell forever.”
And on and on. The list of ways a teacher could purport to be “honest” with a child is endless. Thankfully, for the most part, good teachers tend to mind their own business and let parents and students handle the personal issues that shape their students lives. But on sex issues, they somehow need to take a stand? Why? Why is this so much more urgent and demanding of intervention?
A teacher that goes out of his way to address very personal issues of sex and gender with a student in an adversarial way, isn’t being honest. He’s being cruel.
Name someone who is biologically a Muslim or a Yankees fan or believes in aliens. Being male or female in a biological fact. You are either a man or a woman as determined by your genes and chromosomes and not by some mental defect
Biology wasn’t the standard for you before. It was about being honest and not not enabling, aiding, or abetting, delusions. Seems like you are moving the goalposts.
In what context would a teacher be required to affirm the biology of a student?
Biology has always been the standard.
"Marxist gender theory"
Is that one of those newfangled dog whistles? Marxist gender theory deals only with bringing women into social and economic equality with men.
Apparently, for some people, everything they don’t like these days is now “marxist.” It’s a way to get the rest of us to be outraged along with them without actually having to think about whether or not we should be outraged.
Frankly certain people have made the words “Marxist” “socialist” “radical” etc. completely meaningless. I mean, when you use them to describe quite literally everything you don’t like/disagree with then they no longer have any real value in conversation. As I have said before, when everything is “radical”, “Marxist”, or “socialist” then nothing is.
When ever someone says...the Dems are trying to force a socialist agenda on you...I immediately dismiss them as a crackpot.
Oh yeah, as soon as they try to start in with socialism or something you can just ignore them from there on out because they obviously don’t know why they are talking about.
What do some people find so hard about keeping religion out of the classroom.
If he can't do that then he needs to find another job.