Vivian Geraghty referred to students who were gay or lesbian by their birth sex so she was accused of insubordination and fired. Geraghty is suing the school district. She filed her lawsuit on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. In it she accuses school administrators of violating her freedom of speech and religious freedom, which makes this a Constitutional case. Alliance Defending Freedom legal counsel Logan Spena called the school’s actions “unconstitutional.”
Spena added:
“Schools can’t force teachers to set their religious beliefs aside just to keep a job and they also can’t force teachers to say things that are untrue and harmful to students.
“Vivian loves her students and only wants what’s best for them, but the school doesn’t care about that — otherwise, they would have worked with Vivian instead of immediately forcing her to resign.”
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Yes they can and they did. They can and did because she violated the Rights of her employer and of the gay or lesbian students who can demand they be called whatever they want to be called just as you can demand people call you by whatever name you want to be called. If they refuse you can take them to court because you have a Right to your name. It’s your Free Speech Right to be called whatever you tell people to call you. Other people have the choice to call you whatever you want or to refuse to address you. You have the Right to refuse to respond to people to whom you do not want to respond to. You can ignore them as part of your right of Freedom of Association.
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There are far too many people who think they can refuse to engage in discriminatory behavior because they hold a religious belief for or against such behavior. If they are in a public forum they cannot simply act any way they desire. Sex, for example has to be controlled. Sex is behavior. that proves some behavior is forbidden in some places. 9/11 was another example of forbidden religious behavior. 9/11 was a religious event that’s mis-described as a terrorist event. the hijackers were all, to a man,.. to an individual acting on their religious beliefs and their decisions were prohibited but they engaged in them anyhow.
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