{"id":44004,"date":"2019-01-04T00:30:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T03:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=44004"},"modified":"2019-01-04T01:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T04:52:36","slug":"teacher-fired-for-not-using-male-pronouns-to-address-female-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/04\/teacher-fired-for-not-using-male-pronouns-to-address-female-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Fired for Not Using Male Pronouns to Address Female Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Vlaming, a French teacher at <a href=\"http:\/\/wphs.wpschools.net\/\">West Point High School<\/a> in Virginia, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/virginia-teacher-reportedly-fired-for-refusing-to-use-pronoun-for-transgender-student\">recently fired<\/a> for refusing to use male pronouns when addressing a female student:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Vlaming conceded to referring to the student by [her] male name, he refrained from addressing [her] by any identifying pronoun, the Times-Dispatch said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sounds much like the situation with <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2018\/11\/27\/professor-sues-university-over-required-preferred-pronouns\/\">Shawnee State University and Dr. Nicholas Meriwether<\/a>, who was fired not for what he <em>said<\/em>, but for what he <em>refused<\/em> to say. In both cases, the reports indicate <!--more-->the teachers were <strong>respectful<\/strong> toward the students in question &#8212; but they declined to <strong>proactively affirm<\/strong> their attempt to &#8220;choose&#8221; their gender.<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, the men <em>treated their students respectfully<\/em> but stated to affirm such conduct would violate their religious beliefs &#8212; a position Dr. Al Mohler of the Southern Baptist Convention supported even before their cases came to light.<\/p>\n<p>Fear not, activists will continue to claim. Homosexuals, transgenders, and other sexual varieties just want to be &#8216;free to live their lives,&#8217; not force their worldview on others. Except in this case. And that other one. And maybe a few more.<\/p>\n<p>In Virginia, the government is &#8220;picking a side&#8221; when it comes to the conflict between religious exercise and &#8220;erotic liberty.&#8221; Under the Constitution, it&#8217;s the wrong side.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Vlaming, a French teacher at West Point High School in Virginia, was recently fired for refusing to use male pronouns when addressing a female student: While Vlaming conceded to referring to the student by [her] male name, he refrained from addressing [her] by any identifying pronoun, the Times-Dispatch said. This sounds much like the situation with Shawnee State University [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[600,82,5549,442,2,6641,6660,10,171,6642,2344,1278,6661],"class_list":["post-44004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-albert-mohler","tag-constitution","tag-erotic-liberty","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-nicholas-meriwether","tag-peter-vlaming","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-shawnee-state-university","tag-southern-baptist","tag-transgender","tag-west-point-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44004"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44046,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44004\/revisions\/44046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}