Ep. 130: Minnesota Educators, PELSB, and Freedom of Religion [The Outstanding Podcast]
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🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
What is going on for teachers in the land of 10,000 lakes? Host Joseph Backholm is joined by senior attorney at the Upper Midwest Law Center, James Dickey, for a conversation unpacking what teachers are going through in Minnesota. Recently, the Professional Educator Licensing Standards Board in Minnesota declared that teachers must affirm the gender of their students - and if they don't, they "can teach at a private school" (direct quote from the state). James and his law firm are standing in the gap for teachers as the state takes a very controversial position requiring all public school teachers to conform to their standards or not be licensed to teach in Minnesota. Give this episode a listen to learn more about how Minnesota and Governor Walz are infringing upon Minnesotans' personal freedoms.
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| 0:00.0 | In our society, in our culture, the impingements of Jim Crow were erased and taken away |
| 0:06.0 | so there would be a true equality so everyone could rise and fall on their own merit. |
| 0:11.0 | Now critical theory says, no in fact, not only is that not right, that's actually racist in and of itself. |
| 0:17.0 | And you must, in fact, be actively attempting to discriminate, as Iverm. Kendiandy puts it discriminate presently in order to get rid of past discrimination in order to create the |
| 0:27.8 | equal outcomes at the end. |
| 0:29.5 | Outstanding is a production of the Washington Stand where you can find news and commentary from a biblical worldview. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to Outstanding where we have critical conversations about the news of the day and the ideas that shape us once again. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm your tour guide Joseph back home inviting you in yet |
| 0:45.9 | another exercise in taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. And one of the things |
| 0:51.1 | this requires is the ability to think beyond intentions, slogans, and |
| 0:56.6 | talking points. |
| 0:57.6 | Remember, the people we are most likely to be deceived by are people we like who have good intentions. Now we all want |
| 1:06.6 | quote unquote inclusivity in one sense but we don't all define that in the same |
| 1:11.7 | way we all oppose discrimination quote unquote in one |
| 1:15.9 | sense but in practice one man's discrimination is another man's free |
| 1:20.0 | exercise of |
| 1:25.0 | free speech. Now, the state of Minnesota has recently given us some excellent examples of the |
| 1:29.5 | myriad ways that the devil is in the details when it comes to putting sentiment into law. |
| 1:36.2 | Minnesota has recently made some rule changes that illustrate how attempts to do good things |
| 1:41.5 | can result in very bad things. Now these results would be these |
| 1:47.3 | examples from Minnesota would be instructive anywhere but they are especially |
| 1:51.8 | instructive right now because as you probably know, |
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