Judge orders reinstatement of suspended teacher who opposes transgender pronouns: The power of ideas and a strategy for changing the culture
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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A Christian coach who was suspended for defending biblical truth was reinstated yesterday. In The Daily Article for June 9, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison explains this controversy and the urgency of ideas it illustrates, then he unfolds a four-fold strategy for transforming our culture with biblical truth today.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.3 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.2 | I love all of my students, but I will never lie to them, regardless of the consequences. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm a teacher, but I serve God first. |
| 0:28.6 | And I will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa, because it's against my religion. |
| 0:35.6 | Byron Tanner Cross spoke these words at a Loudoun County Virginia School Board hearing on May 25th. |
| 0:42.4 | He was discussing two proposed transgender policies. |
| 0:46.2 | Cross is a Christian and a physical education teacher at Leesburg Elementary School, |
| 0:51.4 | but he was speaking as a concerned citizen at a public event. |
| 0:55.7 | Nevertheless, the school system suspended him for his statement. |
| 0:59.6 | Yesterday, a Virginia court ruled that Cross must be reinstated. |
| 1:03.8 | One of Cross's lawyers hailed the judge's decisions stating, |
| 1:07.7 | Educators are just like everybody else. |
| 1:10.5 | They have ideas and opinions that they should be |
| 1:13.4 | free to express. Cross told a crowd that gathered to support him Friday night. Many of us are |
| 1:19.2 | concerned that proposed policies would harm students and require us to violate our beliefs by |
| 1:25.2 | saying things that are not true. He added, public schools should not |
| 1:29.7 | punish teachers like me for sharing our beliefs. Tanner Cross's story illustrates the power of |
| 1:38.4 | ideas either to deceive us with falsehoods or to embolden us with truth. As President Kennedy noted, |
| 1:46.1 | A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Winston Churchill observed, |
| 1:54.1 | human beings are not dominated by material things, but by the ideas for which they are willing |
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