{"id":107448,"date":"2020-09-11T14:27:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T12:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/thefreethinker\/?p=107448"},"modified":"2020-09-11T20:28:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T18:28:53","slug":"schools-move-against-a-hateful-t-shirt-infuriates-christian-blowhard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thefreethinker\/2020\/09\/schools-move-against-a-hateful-t-shirt-infuriates-christian-blowhard\/","title":{"rendered":"School’s move against a hateful T-shirt infuriates Christian blowhard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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TENNESSEE\u2019S Rev Rich Penkoski is a Grade A pain in the arse. He is pictured above railing against a birth control leaflet<\/a> he claims was given to his son at school last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now he\u2019s reportedly making suing noises<\/a> over the fact that the Livingston Academy told his daughter Brielle to change her T-shirt that proclaimed \u201chomosexuality is a sin.\u201d When she refused, she was sent home.<\/p>\n

Penkoski, who regularly bangs on about things like homosexuality and Drag Queen Story Hour events, runs an organisation called Warriors for Christ, which describes itself as a \u201cpre-denominational ministry\u201d that has a global online presence.<\/p>\n

In an e-mail to The Christian Pos<\/em>t, the fleshy foghorn said that Livingston Academy principal Richard Melton claimed his daughter\u2019s shirt was prohibited because its message featured \u201csexual connotation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to that explanation, Penkoski noted that one of his daughter\u2019s teachers has an LGBT pride sticker displayed in his classroom featuring the rainbow colours associated with the LGBT movement. The sticker features words:<\/p>\n

Diverse, Inclusive, Accepting, Welcoming Safe Space For Everyone.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to Penkoski, the principal did not have any issue with the pro-LGBT display, and accused the school of \u201cdouble standards\u201d when it comes to political speech.<\/p>\n

He claims his daughter wanted to make a statement with the shirt.<\/p>\n

She wanted to go there to \u2026 express her values like all the other kids do. They\u2019ve got kids walking around with the pride symbol on their sneakers and pride clothing and nobody bats an eye. She was basically censored.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Penkoski argues that teachers:<\/p>\n

Are pushing Joe Biden \u2026 [and] pushing the rainbow stuff. But if a Christian comes up there and repeats what the Bible says, they are seen as intolerant, they are seen as hateful. Simply saying \u2018homosexuality is a sin\u2019 is not hate speech. That\u2019s what the Bible says. And we need to start preaching truthfully.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He believes that what happened to his daughter in \u201ca little town in Tennessee that nobody\u2019s ever heard of\u201d is indicative of the culture at schools around the country.<\/p>\n

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Walker and a young cohort protesting last years against Tennessee legislation that allowed people to buy booze on Sundays. Image via YouTube.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pastor Dale Walker,\u00a0 above right, President of the Tennessee Pastors Network, agrees with Penkoski and said that what happened to his daughter was:<\/p>\n

An indication of what is happening in our school systems. They\u2019re trying to drive the indoctrination down the throats of the students. They want the students to cower down and not be able to wear a shirt that has a Bible verse on it. They can fly your rainbow flags but then you have a Christian student who wants to express her deeply held beliefs and she is unable to.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our elected officials have to return the power of the schools back to the people. If not, the indoctrination will continue and it will get markedly worse.<\/em><\/p>\n

Walker believes that reforming American education begins with allowing the people of Tennessee to \u201celect our school superintendent\u201d and \u201celect a school director.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

We need a conservative director of education in our state. I don\u2019t think we have a conservative director of education.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Penkoski\u2019s dissatisfaction with public education is not limited to Livingston, Tennessee, CP<\/em> points out.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, he expressed outrage after his daughter received a homework assignment asking her to practice writing the Islamic declaration of faith in Arabic calligraphy. At the time, his daughter was attending middle school in Gerrardstown, West Virginia.<\/p>\n

Earlier in that particular school year, Penkoski\u2019s daughter was allegedly shown a music video featuring two male students sleeping together and a close-up of a sex toy.<\/p>\n

Late last year, after Penkoski and his family moved to Sullivan County, Tennessee, he said that his 7-year-old son brought home a flyer promoting a clinic that would provide access to \u201cfree birth control and pre-pregnancy services.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a movement,\u201d Penkoski proclaimed.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re trying to recruit kids, they\u2019re trying to indoctrinate kids with liberal ideology, promoting sex and sexuality to kids.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And hopefully, also teaching them that they shouldn\u2019t yield to gluttony.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a song for you, Rich Penkoski:<\/p>\n