A revived legal dispute over a Christian music teacher’s refusal to use students’ preferred names and pronouns will offer an early test of the US Supreme Court’s new standard for religious accommodations in the workplace.

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    1 year ago

    They don’t realize that this opens them up to be called damn near anything the students want to call them.

    Also, askong students what they prefer to be called predates the trans panic the idiots are experiencing. See, back in my day, someone named Gershwin Boyd Merryweather might be called Bubba by everyone that knows him. You call him Boyd, or Gershwin, or even Merryweather, he might not respond because that’s not the name his brain recognizes as meaning him. So the teachers were smart enough to ask students what they go by.

    Hence me being called Mike in jr high chool despite not having the name michael at all because I gave up correcting teachers that couldn’t say my real name (which isn’t Mike or Michael lol). In high school, I just responded to call me sasquatch. That was what most of my friends had started calling me because I either look or smell like one (whuch depended on which friend you ask lol).

    Believe it or not, other than my English teacher who could pronounce my traditional irish name correctly, and one old geometry teacher that said, and I quote “I will call you no such silly thing. Select another name, please.” everyone called me that in school after freshman year. The principal called me to the office by sasquatch once.

    So, no, I don’t buy this bullshit at all.

    And, even if it wasn’t bullshit whole cloth, it isn’t religious bullshit, because there’s nowhere in the fucking bible that says you can’t fucking be a decent human being and call people what they prefer to be called.

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        It is and it isn’t.

        My point is that the whole objection the idiots are making is bullshit.

        It was never a problem to use whatever name you wanted, regardless of what your school record listed until the whiny fucks wanted a excuse to fuck with trans/other kids and hide behind the veil of religious freedom.