Thu Nov 9, 2023 – 5:16 pm EST
INDIANAPOLIS (LifeSiteNews) – An Indiana music teacher forced to resign over his objections to referring to gender-confused students by inaccurate pronouns filed a motion asking a federal court to affirm his right to a religious accommodation under federal law.
In 2018, former Brownsburg High School music teacher John Kluge was pressured into resigning after the Brownsburg Community School Corporation (BCSC) rescinded the accommodation it had reached with him to allow him to refer to students exclusively by their last names instead of preferred gender pronouns or opposite-sex first names.
“I’m being compelled to encourage students in what I believe is something that’s a dangerous lifestyle,” he said at the time. “I’m fine to teach students with other beliefs, but the fact that teachers are being compelled to speak a certain way is the scary thing.” Kluge added that he was not attempting to force his beliefs on students but “wanted to present an environment where I wasn’t going to push one way or the other.”
Kluge sued, and the case has since been working its way through the courts, most recently when the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
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