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Christian Teacher Fired for Refusing to Read LGBTQ Books to Children
American Greatness ^ | 18 Oct, 2022 | Eric Lendrum

Posted on 10/19/2022 5:32:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Last week, a Christian teacher in California was fired from her job at a preschool for refusing to read an LGBTQ-themed book to the children of her class.

As reported by NewsBusters, Nelli Parisenkova has since filed a lawsuit against her former employer, Bright Horizons Children’s Center, over her firing. The school, located in Studio City, serves children at or under the age of 5 years. The school has publicly declared its “commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Parisenkova had previously voiced her religious objections to having to read such materials, and was granted an exception for four years. However, in April of this year, when the school’s location’s director Katy Callas, who is a lesbian, heard about Parisenkova’s objections, she refused to extend her religious exemption.

According to the lawsuit, Callas “took personal offense at Ms. Parisenkova’s religious beliefs,” and then “questioned her in an irate manner,” ultimately forcing her to quit by ordering her to either “celebrate diversity” or find a new job.

The lawsuit went on to say that “Bright Horizons issued a counseling memo with false statements, terminated her life-insurance benefits, required her to complete retraining in diversity issues, and encouraged her to resign her position.”

“Ms. Parisenkova could not return to work without an accommodation,” the suit continues. “So, Bright Horizons terminated her employment.” The suit described her treatment as “harassment,” “discrimination,” and “despicable.”

In recent years, with parents becoming more aware of what schools are teaching children through remote and virtual learning implemented as a result of COVID, there have been widespread grassroots movements against far-left indoctrination in education. The LGBTQ agenda, which openly promotes homosexuality as well as transgenderism – the belief that there are more than two genders, and that anyone can change their gender at any given time – has especially become a fierce cultural battle, with far-left advocacy group and teachers unions demanding that little children be taught about sexual degeneracy as part of embracing “diversity.”


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: arth; biased; california; coercion; communism; disgraceful; homosexualagenda; oppression
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1 posted on 10/19/2022 5:32:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Who would have believed this only 10 years ago?


2 posted on 10/19/2022 5:32:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The party of immorality fires a teacher who refuses to teach lies to the children.


3 posted on 10/19/2022 5:33:38 AM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: MtnClimber

She was forced into perversity diversity. Her type of diversity is not allowed.


4 posted on 10/19/2022 5:37:43 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: MtnClimber

Preschool = daycare

These children were abandoned there, they belong to the business.


5 posted on 10/19/2022 5:41:41 AM PDT by Varda
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To: MtnClimber

From “Coming out of the closet” to “Shouting it from the rooftops”

From “just wanting acceptance” to “forced compliance”

This is why there is backlash forming.


6 posted on 10/19/2022 5:42:00 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: MtnClimber

Part of me wonders why she stayed with this institution for years…..
…the other part is thankful those little ones had her there


7 posted on 10/19/2022 5:49:50 AM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: MtnClimber
The only way the social pendulum won't swing back hard against the Left and all its perverted constituents is if this country is overthrown by an absolute totalitarian regime.

If and when the pendulum does swing back and the manure hits the windmill, the perverts and favored minorities are going to realize just how incredibly duped and used they were by the commies and their crony capitalists.

It will be hard to find a closet with room to hang so much as a baseball cap when all the Wokester perverts make a mad dash for cover.

8 posted on 10/19/2022 5:50:05 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: MtnClimber

Out of the closet - and into your face....


9 posted on 10/19/2022 5:52:02 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: MtnClimber

Unless the regular LGBTQ community stands up against this type of “force” into compliance they will all be painted with the same brush as the radical fringe group of militant gays and transgenders. I don’t care what you do in your bedroom because that is between you and God, but please do not bring it into schools before little kids. It is up to the parents to either teach their kids about LGBTQ facts and history or not. It’s not up to a teacher to talk about their sex life in class.


10 posted on 10/19/2022 5:52:51 AM PDT by JoJo354 (I am in mourning for the United States of America.)
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To: MtnClimber; 6amgelsmama; 100American; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

I’m not sure if this is a public school or not, but in an6 case, this is where we’re heading anyways.

The only safe place for your kids is home.


11 posted on 10/19/2022 5:59:43 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: MtnClimber
"forcing her to quit by ordering her to either “celebrate diversity” or find a new job."

The problem is that the modern university’s idea of “diversity” excludes all dissident opinions to the one accepted definition of “diversity” which it “values.”

There can be no diversity of opinion on issues of “gender,” even though the present dogmatism that the modern university “values” was not even conceivable in any human societies and cultures until the past few decades. Should those with diverse opinions on the topic of “gender” endeavor to voice their opinions on modern university campuses they will be subjected to the threat of physical violence.

And what is true of issues of “gender” is true of other issues, such as marriage, sexual ethics, abortion, et cetera. No genuine diversity on any of these issues is tolerated by the modern university, which outlaws all such diversity on the grounds of “diversity” and excludes all dissident opinions on the grounds of “inclusiveness.” If this isn’t newspeak and doublethink at their most egregious, it’s hard to know what is. Big Brother would be proud.

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2017/10/diversity-and-doublethink-joseph-pearce.html

12 posted on 10/19/2022 6:09:01 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: MtnClimber

The Army of Satan continues to pervert our children and neither party is voicing opposition to it.


13 posted on 10/19/2022 6:09:05 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: metmom

“The only safe place for your kids is home.”

Give them time.


14 posted on 10/19/2022 6:09:41 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: MtnClimber

Gays 1980, we just want to live quietly
Gays 1990, we just want to be accepted
Gays 2000, we just want to be treated equally
Gays 2005, we just want civil unions
Gays 2010, we just want to be married to other gays
Gays 2020, we just want to force you to celebrate us
Gays 2022, we just want to read pornographic stories to your children and teach 5 year olds about the joys of anal sex.


15 posted on 10/19/2022 6:12:46 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: RoosterRedux; All

I wish I could agree but the ‘anti-racism’ and ‘hate has no home here’ communists have pretty extensively infiltrated red state America through the churches. Amazingly regular Americans will take woke communism as gospel teaching if it comes out of the mouth of ‘preacher’. Why he is all edumakted and stuff and if says having a Confederate flag is a ‘sin against God’ and white people are guilty of ‘historic sins of oppression’ just by being white , well it must be so. Just amazing the numbers of middle class white people in red state America that let themselves be psychologically disarmed. If we are going to be saved it will not be the ‘goood people’ who do it but the kind of foughnecks I sazw in the Salvadorian Army and what was stupidly called the Contrtas. They were not good people by the standards of the Salvadorian middle class but they killed commies and their allies in large numbers and kept Central America from becoming Cuba. When the war ended the local ‘goood people’ came out of hiding and made it clear how much they hated their saviors. The the Bush administration pulled out , like almost overnight, after the Soviet Union collapsed . The drug dealers showed up in a couple years and effectively took what the commies couldn’t since Bushie could care less. But it will not be ‘good people’ who save the United States but men and women who will do a lot of very bad things for a good purpose.


16 posted on 10/19/2022 6:12:51 AM PDT by robowombat
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To: MtnClimber

[[The school has publicly declared its “commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.”]]

Flat out blatant bald-faced lie beczuse they do NOT accept her or her beliefs


17 posted on 10/19/2022 6:14:47 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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To: MtnClimber

Little confused. Did they fire her or did she quit.

I think it works out better if she forced them to fire her rather than quit.


18 posted on 10/19/2022 6:18:05 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: MtnClimber
Remember when those poor, naive souls on the conservative side said: "Oh, just let them have their fake marriage. It won't impact your life at all."

Enjoy your crow sandwiches, fools.
19 posted on 10/19/2022 6:18:05 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Guenevere

A servant worked for a wicked king once, and when asked why he co ti ued to work for such an ‘evil king’ his reply was ‘because, imagine how much more evil he would be if he didn’t have any kind of opposing viewpoints at all’. We are part of the ‘Restrainer’. If Christians weren’t around, the immoral folks would have free reign to do whatever they want whenever they wanted, and things would be even worse than they are now- Hey would be just as in the days of noah when all of society was continually evil day and night. If it wasn’t for the remnant of faithful Christians on earth, life would be a living hell for everyone. (Although we are close to that now, we are still a voice for resistance to the evil... parents are gai ing some victories against the madness. If noone objected, school would be nothing but a huge gay orgy by pervs and pedos. Sadly it’s close to,that now, but thankfully there is still some resistance.

May she win her lawsuit


20 posted on 10/19/2022 6:21:36 AM PDT by Bob434 (question)
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