MN’s Teacher Licensing Rules Run Afoul of Religious Freedom
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Under Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz, Minnesota has effectively banned Christians from being teachers.
From The Federalist. Effective July 2025, teacher licensing rules passed last year in Minnesota under Democrat Gov. Tim Walz will ban practicing Christians, Jews, and Muslims from teaching in public schools. Walz is now the presidential running mate of current U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. His resume includes a stint as a high school social studies teacher who sponsored a student queer sex club in 1999.
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Starting next July, Minnesota agencies controlled by Walz appointees will require teacher license applicants to affirm transgenderism and race Marxism. Without a teaching license, individuals cannot work in Minnesota public schools, nor in the private schools that require such licenses.
The latest version of the regulations requires teachers to “affirm” students’ “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” to receive a Minnesota teaching license:
The teacher fosters an environment that ensures student identities such as race/ethnicity, national origin, language, sex and gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical/developmental/emotional ability, socioeconomic class, and religious beliefs are historically and socially contextualized, affirmed, and incorporated into a learning environment where students are empowered to learn and contribute as their whole selves (emphasis added). …
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Some Christian universities in the state will obey these regulations, said Doug Seaton, founder and president of the nonprofit Upper Midwest Law Center, located in Minneapolis. Some Christian universities will not, but so far those UMLC has reached out to that plan to disobey these state commands to violate their faith will do so quietly and only sue when the state finds and punishes them, Seaton said. …
Faithful members of the world’s largest and oldest religions cannot in good conscience “affirm” non-heterosexual sexual orientations and gender identities. Christians who do so publicly deny their faith, something Jesus Christ said endangers a person’s soul and eternal bliss after death: “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 10:32, 33).
Minnesota’s teacher requirements therefore force Christians, Muslims, Jews, and adherents to other religions to violate their faith and endanger their hopes of eternal life in order to work in government-run schools.
Forcing people to testify to beliefs they don’t hold, often called compelled speech, is clearly unconstitutional, he said: “They’re essentially requiring people to affirm these ideas that they don’t really believe, in many cases, as a condition of being a public school teacher or being part of a program to be a licensed public school teacher. You can’t force that kind of speech, you can’t require adherence to ideas that aren’t believed.” …
Share your thoughts and prayers on these new rules in the comments.
(Excerpt from The Federalist. Photo Credit: AndreyPopov/Getty Images via Canva Pro)
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Joe Biden,the most corrupt, incompetent, president in history, Harris most incompetent VP (the curse of the Marxist democratic party, a demonic religion that is anti-woman, anti-American, anti-God, anti-Christian, anti-Israel!)
Father I ask in the midst of this trial for Your followers who are teachers and students and faculty of any kind and parents, that You would give watchmen and gatekeepers, restore excellence in education, defend Truth in curricula, overcome adversity and cast vision, guard our children’s innocence, protect schools from violence, activate Your Church to speak up and step in, shift spiritual atmosphere, impart God-given purpose, and RECLAIM a generation! Isaiah 61:3-4. Isaiah 9:2…darkness to Light! In Jesus Name Amen. SO BE IT.
That sounds like a move of China they have their two puppets in place her as president and him as vice president he’s one of there’s why are we surprised they have their two people in place to turn the us into a socialist country
Why isn’t the ACLJ being notified and them getting involved? There is no cost.
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness,
who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
from Isaiah 5
woe: ruinous trouble : CALAMITY, AFFLICTION
“…will require teacher license applicants to affirm transgenderism and race Marxism.”
Dear Heavenly Father, You made humankind in Your image to rule over all the earth. You made male and female and blessed them saying, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. You said they (we) are to rule over Your creation. I pray You will rescind and remove this “requirement.” It is mockery of justice. I pray for these cords of deceit to be severed.
I pray for these who call evil good and good evil to feel the full weight of Your displeasure. I pray calamity will overtake the efforts of these leaders who consider themselves clever and wise. May they soon know deeply and personally, how wrong their intentions are. I ask this and so much more in the Name of Christ, our Beautiful Savior. Amen