A revived legal dispute over a Christian music teacher’s refusal to use students’ preferred names and pronouns will offer an early test of the US Supreme Court’s new standard for religious accommodations in the workplace.
Any accommodation which requires a workplace accepts anti-trans hate or bigotry is by definition a substantial burden.
No workplace should be required to put up with shitheads nor scramble to counteract the harm they do to their guests, customers, and students, be they trans themself or simply decent people.
While I suppose the teacher could find a different job if it bothers them, I personally believe this teacher (and all transphobes) should be made to "say the pronouns!" at gunpoint, irrespective where they work (like that inspirational meme the right so oft posts).
But Kluge is doing it for transphobic reasons, and should therefore be opposed and made to stop it.
Even if last names reads as reasonable, the teacher is doing it specifically to dispute the validity of their student's genders.
Every time this teacher spits a gender-diverse student's surname at them, they will hear the disrespect and poison it is dripping with and each time will bleed them baleful in the belly.
A person should not be permitted to harm a vulnerable person like that, especially if they are in a position of power and especially if they are a state employee.
Students have a right to their person and identity; no religion supersedes that right.
I think I do need the transphobia argument, because transphobia is bad and it is good to argue against it. The fact "it could be fought with simple contract law if it had to be" not withstanding.
Last year, in giving the young ones a volume of English Fairy Tales, my difficulty was one of collection. This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection. Ireland began to collect her folk-tales almost as early as any country in Europe, and...
No doubt, but their audience who conflates Cymry with Cymru knows to pronounce a 'u' as 'ɨ̞'?
I thought it might have been the way it was spelt back then, like how William Morgan introduced 'c' as the /k/ phoneme in 1588's Y Beibl cyssegr-lan, but I looked it up and there's an instance of 'Gymry' right here in Dan Isaac Davies' 1986's Yr iaith Gymraeg, 1785, 1885, 1985! neu, Tair miliwn o Gymry dwy-ieithawg mewn can mlynedd cyfres o lythyrau ; gyda hanes sefydliad Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg published 6 years prior.
Not being a Welsh native, he probably wasn't aware that referring to the Welsh as the Cymru held the implications of a slur.
If it does, I'm not aware of it. Please don't interpret that from me if I am your only source on that. So far as I am aware it just sounds 'wrong' like calling "the Germans" "the Germany".
I wasn't saying what he said was itself a slur. I just call the English a slur because I don't like them, and didn't type it out because the pronunciation is hard to get across in text.
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Evangelical Christian leader Russell Moore revealed this week that many evangelical pastors have become alarmed that their Trump-loving congregants have become so militant that they are even rejecting the teachings of Jesus Christ.In an interview with NPR, Moore said that multiple pastors had told h...
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Religious Objections Over Pronouns Test High Court’s New Stance (news.bloomberglaw.com)
A revived legal dispute over a Christian music teacher’s refusal to use students’ preferred names and pronouns will offer an early test of the US Supreme Court’s new standard for religious accommodations in the workplace.
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs - Project Gutenberg (free) (www.gutenberg.org)
Last year, in giving the young ones a volume of English Fairy Tales, my difficulty was one of collection. This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection. Ireland began to collect her folk-tales almost as early as any country in Europe, and...
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Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak' (www.rawstory.com)
Evangelical Christian leader Russell Moore revealed this week that many evangelical pastors have become alarmed that their Trump-loving congregants have become so militant that they are even rejecting the teachings of Jesus Christ.In an interview with NPR, Moore said that multiple pastors had told h...
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