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SHELBY — Last month a group of parents attended a public school board meeting enraged over a district policy allowing biological males into female restrooms. With a school board member requesting for more public input and Joe Biden touting transgender theory as gospel truth, a wide-reaching group of clergy are not hesitating to warn school officials they should affirm Bible-based, biological truth.
According to a news report, several incidents have occurred surrounding the Shelby City School restrooms. To no one’s surprise, irate parents have compiled statements from at least ten female students who no longer feel safe using the restrooms. In response, area clergy opposing the current school policy delivered a correspondence to Superintendent Tim Tarvin. Historically the faith leaders have been vocal on this issue.
“It is our expectation the Shelby School Administration have a zero-tolerance policy to incidents of misconduct in school restrooms, locker rooms, and showers,” says Bishop Anthony Cooper. “As clergy, we will not sacrifice the safety and privacy of children on the altar of political correctness. It bears worth repeating, the Bible says GOD is the “Father of Lights with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.”
During the November 21st school board meeting, Tarvin was quoted as saying, “three transgender girls (biological boys) at school use the girls’ restrooms.” One mother stated a boy hugged her daughter against her will in the restroom which has led to her daughter not wanting to come to school. Additionally, another parent reported a transgender boy (biological girl) has made threats against girls.
The letter, sent by lead clergymen representing over one hundred diverse area congregations, is calling for all students to use the restrooms, corresponding to biological sex and for questioning students to have the choice of using three existing gender-neutral staff restrooms. The pastors believe allowing some students to have the special privilege of arbitrarily choosing whichever restroom they want at the expense of the physical welfare of other students is unfair and misguided.
According to another cosigner of the letter, Reverend El Akuchie comments, “Allowing boys into girls’ restrooms and showers-it was said we would never go down that road. Now we are moving to the next taboo. When you move away from GOD’s ways, there are no guardrails. If we do not bring moral clarity to our culture, it is only a matter of time before the car goes off the cliff.”
In their letter the clergy pointed out several years ago after Target Stores announced a restroom policy based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), criminal incidents abounded, and the company sustained financial losses in the tens of millions of dollars.
“It is our expectation the Shelby School Administration have a zero-tolerance policy to incidents of misconduct in school restrooms, locker rooms, and showers. As clergy, we will not sacrifice the safety and privacy of children on the altar of political correctness.“
Bishop Anthony Cooper, Shelby Ohio
The clergy then referenced the fifteen-year-old girl from Louden County, Virginia who last year was sexually assaulted while in a school bathroom. The attack was committed by a teenage boy wearing a skirt who entered the girls’ bathroom. This same student was accused of committing a second sexual assault against a girl at a different school.
“The Creator of the universe does not change His character, nor His Word, therefore we (clergy) do not change our position,” says Pastor Hank Webb. “With society saying people can choose from 112 different genders, some are confused and in need of basic biological truths found in the Bible. GOD defines truth. In Genesis, GOD created male and female in His image, period. People do not choose their gender, their DNA-specifically their 23rd pair of chromosomes, determines gender. Believing otherwise is rejecting science. The school board needs to have courage of true convictions.”
Incensed by the recent Shelby restroom policies, one area pastor last Sunday announced to his congregation that he will be running for one of the two Shelby Board of Education seats this coming Fall.
With both the State Attorney General and State Board of Education weighing in on school restrooms by opposing the Biden Administration’s proposed redefinition of sex in Title IX, the clergy agree there is no excuse legally for the school district to not have restrooms based on objective biological gender.
The clergy wrote, “In the State of Ohio, parents have more school alternatives when there is perceived mismanagement. With open enrollment and options like home schooling, private schools and charter schools, it is in the best interest of Shelby City Schools to implement policies protecting privacy and safety. Future passage of the Backpack Bill is expected to further strengthen parents’ grip of tax dollars.”
The Bottom Line:
The Bible says in Proverbs 2, “If you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding….discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, and deliver you from the way of evil.”
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