Missouri teacher resigns after school tells him to remove Pride flag

[Ms. Toad]

7. In the United States, Christians are not bullied, terrorized, or murdered for who they are.

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They do not attempt suicide at the estimated rate of 1 every 45 seconds (https://www.thetrevorproject.org/2021/03/11/estimate-of-how-often-lgbtq-youth-attempt-suicide-in-the-u-s/). For the most part - to the extent there is any anti-Christian discrimination - they grow up with parents who have the same life experiences - and who will not disown them for "coming out" as Christian.

The two are not at all comparable. LGBT teens desperately need to be able to identify safe spaces and safe people. I have two (now adult) "foster" kids, both of whom had suicide ideation, and one of whom attempted it because their families did not accept them and they had nowhere to turn. Fortunately I was out at school, at least to my fellow teachers, who pointed me in the direction of the second one before she got to the level of despair to actually attempt suicide.

Ensuring that LGBT students have safe spaces and people to turn to is every bit as essential to education as ensuring kids have food in their bellies, aftercare, sports, and all sorts of other things that are not strictly part of the curriculum.

Your position is the equivalent of declaring that since racial discrimination is now illegal, our posture should be that all lives matter. The fact that we have made great strides and that discrimination against LGBT individuals is a lot closer to illegal does not instantaneously change the reality for LGBT teens - or even LGBT adults.