Normally, I find stories about Christians being persecuted in European countries, or Canada. But when I did a search for stories about Christians being persecuted for declining to participate in LGBT in America, I was able to find quite a few cases. I’ve previously covered all the Christian businesses who got sued for refusing to celebrate same-sex marriages. But there’s more!

Consider the case of Peter Vlaming, who was fired for declining to use transgender pronouns.

The Washington Stand reports:

The saga began in 2018, when a female student in Vlaming’s class who identified as transgender demanded to be called by a male name and pronouns. Vlaming, who had taught in the district for almost seven years and was popular with students, agreed to call the student by her chosen name but declined to refer to her with male pronouns. In an attempt at compromise, he invited the whole class to use new names for French class and also avoided using any pronouns in class.

But Vlaming’s attempts to accommodate the student were not enough for West Point High School officials. They ordered him to start using the trans-identifying student’s preferred pronouns or risk losing his job. After Vlaming declined to use male pronouns and attempted to explain his efforts to compromise, he was informed that he was being fired for “discrimination” on the basis of gender identity.

Now, you might be tempted to say “well, West Point is in New York state, so of course blue states are going to abuse the human rights of Christians”. But here’s a case from Kansas, which is a purple state.

Daily Signal reports:

Fort Riley, Kansas, middle school math teacher Pamela Ricard wasn’t looking to pick a fight. But when the Geary County School District suspended and disciplined the teacher with a 17-year history of teaching at the school, she sued.

Her offense? She addressed two students who considered themselves transgender by their legal names rather than their preferred names and pronouns, and she refused to hide their social transition from the students’ parents. Both actions were in contravention of the school district’s new communications policy.

It’s important to note that in both of these cases, the people who were punished argued that they had a right to do what they were doing, because of the Bible’s teaching about male and female sexes. But that didn’t save them, because people don’t care about religious liberty as a defense to “making someone feel bad”.

Here’s another case, this time from California, where a gym teacher was fired for the crime of refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns.

The Washington Stand reports:

The Jurupa school district fired Tapia in January 2023 after she said her religious beliefs made her “unable to comply” with the district’s directives “to refrain from disclosing the gender identity of a student who is transgender to a parent who does not know the student’s gender identity” and “to address students by their preferred name and preferred gender pronouns.”

“It was crazy to be in the position where I realized that I couldn’t be a Christian and a teacher,” said Tapia, a mother of three children herself. “I made sure to clarify, too, with [the] district personnel that were sitting across from me. I looked them in the eye, and I said, ‘Are you asking me to lie to parents?’ and they said, ‘Yes. It’s the law.’”

Now, to be honest, I think you’d have to be really naive to want to try to live an authentic Christian life in CALIFORNIA. I think you would have to tone down your advocacy for Biblical positions, in order to live there. But, some people like the weather, or something. Me, I’d rather live in a red state like Tennessee or Oklahoma, where I can say what I want and not care what people think.

Here’s another case from a blue state, Virginia. In this case, a physical education teacher was suspended for opposing a preferred pronoun policy at a school board meeting.

Daily Signal reports:

A prominent religious liberty organization is asking a Virginia school district to reverse a decision to suspend a gym teacher for not complying with pronoun rules for transgender students in his elementary school.

The Loudoun County school district suspended Byron “Tanner” Cross, a physical education teacher at Leesburg Elementary School, after he said during a May 25 school board meeting that he would not abide by a proposed rule requiring teachers to call students who say they are transgender by their preferred personal pronouns.

You might remember the Loudoun county school district. This is the school district that allowed a male student to sexually assault a female student, and then when it was discovered, they tried to label the concerned parents “domestic terrorists”. This is why the question “where will our children go to school?” ought to be a topic for Christians who are considering marriage. It’s very important that Christian kids not go to government schools.

Here’s a final story out of Indiana, a red state. This time, a music teacher was forced to resign for refusing to use the preferred pronouns of a student.

The Indy Star explains:

A Brownsburg teacher is fighting for his job after he says the district forced him to resign over its transgender student policy.

John Kluge, the former orchestra teacher at Brownsburg High School, said the school district’s requirement that teachers call transgender students by their preferred names, rather than those given at birth, goes against his religious beliefs. The requirement, Kluge said, violates his First Amendment rights.

In every case, these were Christian people who refused to participate in LGBT indoctrination, because they believed in the Bible, not in the morality of the secular left. But it didn’t save them from being persecuted. It’s so strange to me to see so many Christian pastors and leaders ignoring the violation of the religious liberty of Bible-believing Christians. Make sure that you think about that when you go to the ballot box to vote.

The Trump administration has a difficult task ahead of them. The country is over $36 trillion in debt. The interest on the debt is now up to about 13% of the budget. If government spending is not cut, that will increase by about half a percent per year. Eventually, it will take up so much of the budget, that government won’t be able to keep its promises for social programs.

First, for those who would rather watch than read, check out this clip of Matt Walsh:

If you cannot watch, then here’s an editorial by famous law professor Jonathan Turley that was published in the far-left The Hill:

In one of the most cringeworthy appearances in Congress, Katherine Maher imploded in a House hearing on the public funding of the liberal radio outlet.

By the end of her series of contradictions and admissions, Maher had made the definitive case for ending public funding for NPR and state-subsidized media.

And here are the details:

She was the personification of advocacy journalism, even declaring that the First Amendment is the “number one challenge” that makes it “tricky” to censor or “modify” content as she would like.

Maher has supported “deplatforming” anyone she deems to be “facsists” and even suggested that she might support “punching Nazis.” She also declared that “our reverence for the truth might be a distraction [in] getting things done.”

A former NPR editor published an article about bias at NPR: “NPR’s Washington headquarters has 87 registered Democrats among its editors and zero Republicans.”

It’s amazing how secular leftists change their views when they are about to lose access to taxpayer handouts:

When asked about her past public statements that Trump is a “deranged, racist sociopath,” she said that she would not post such views today. She similarly brushed off her statements that America is “addicted to White supremacy” and denounced the use of the words “boy and girl” as “erasing language” for non-binary people.

When asked about her past assertion that the U.S. was founded on “black plunder and white democracy,” Maher said she no longer believed what she had said. She also wrote that “America is addicted to white supremacy”

When asked about her support for the book “The Case for Reparations,” Maher denied any memory of ever having read the book. She was then read back her own public statements about how she took a day to read the book in a virtue-signaling post.

She then denied calling for reparations, but was read back her own declaration: “Yes, the North, yes all of us, yes America. Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations. Yes, on this day.”

Suddenly, the thought of losing access to taxpayer money made Katherine Maher forget everything that her company – NPR – had ever done or said:

The one moment of clarity came when Maher was asked about NPR’s refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story. When first disclosed, with evidence of millions in alleged influence-peddling by the Biden family, NPR’s then-managing editor Terence Samuels made a strident and even mocking statement: “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”

Now Maher wants Congress to know that “NPR acknowledges we were mistaken in failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner.”

All it took was the threat of a complete cutoff of federal funding.

It must be so confusing for her to be confronted with her own words and her own choices. I can imagine that she must be thinking something similar to Hillary Clinton, when she was confronted with evidence of her crimes: “what difference at this point does it make?” No apology. No taking responsibility. No accepting accountability. Just lie, evade, dodge, deflect, shift blame, project.

Listen. All of this government spending is going to have to be paid by your children, and your children’s children. For Democrats – the party of slavery – this is not a problem. Democrats LOVE spending money now, and making other people pay for it later. Democrats LOVE the idea of forcing others to pay their bills.  They believe in unlimited money, unlimited youth, unlimited beauty. They don’t understand scarcity. They just want to have a good time now.

Now that the grown-ups are back in charge, we need to cut the spending while we still can. Let these welfare queens fend for themselves. Let them face the consequences of their actions.