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MANSFIELD — Under a less than modest mandate, female students may soon see adolescent boys staring at them in their restroom mirrors at school.
To combat political correctness gone amuck, the local faith community is telling school officials to stall. Clergy representing over one hundred diverse congregations recently sent a letter to all school superintendents inside Richland County calling on the districts to disobey a federal government mandate requiring schools to allow students into restrooms of the opposite gender.
“I wanted to be included in this clergy correspondence because from my point of view, the Bible tells us the LORD made man in his image, says Pastor Thomas Hunt. “GOD made both male and female, Trying to be politically correct blurs the lines.”
The correspondence stated “There is no authority except from GOD, and since governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever government becomes destructive of these ends; it is the right of the people to alter it.”
The letter was in response to a U.S. Department of Education memorandum sent to school districts and universities across the nation informing them that they may be subject to lawsuit and the withdrawal of federal funding in the event their institution does not include gender identity alongside biological sex. This is a new interpretation of Title IX of the Education Amendments passed by Congress in 1972.
“After forty-four years this law has been in effect, the federal government now claims that the original framers of the law intended to allow transgender persons to choose whichever restroom they prefer at any given time,” the clergy said.
Area Clergy letter to Richland County school officials
“It bears worth mentioning that no persons are presently being denied access to a restroom since there is already equal access provided to all on the basis of biological sex.”
The clergy point out the federal guidance does not apply to just bathrooms, but also to locker rooms, showers, dormitory housing, and overnight hotels for field trips. They also said no persons are presently being denied access to a restroom since there is already equal access provided to all on the basis of biological sex.
The pastors asserted the “Department of Education lacks authority to unilaterally redefine sex. They also said the radical mandate jeopardizes the privacy and safety of vulnerable and women and children, defies objectivity and logic, exploits low income and disabled students by aborting funds for school meals, eliminates funding for students with disabilities, and triggers intolerance with people of religious conviction and/or differing opinion.
In response to the area clergy, State Rep. Mark Romanchuk commented, “It’s a shame the federal government has to threaten states to comply by taking away funding-that’s a problem,” Romanchuk went on to say he thinks the transgender bathroom policy is “bad.”
The clergy remain resolute in their position. “When it comes to following man’s law or GOD’s law, I’m going to follow GOD’s,” Reverend Hunt said.
The Bottom Line:
Jesus in Matthew Chapter Nineteen says, “Have not you read that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
