The English Christian School teacher was fired and punished for teaching Christian views on LGBT issues

A teacher at a Church of England (COFE) school was found guilty of “unacceptable professional conduct” for expressing Christian views on gender and sexuality in the religious education class.

The UK's Education Regulatory Agency (TRA) has discovered that Glawdys Leger has been found guilty of “a serious nature of misconduct.” Leger's comments were “inappropriate” and refusal to teach one lesson for its heavy professional LGBT content “students did not receive a balanced curriculum,” the agency wrote.

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Legger, 43, has been a modern-day foreign language specialist teacher for 12 years and was the last five at Just Scophe Bishop's School in Bromley.

According to Christian Concerns (CC), its legal department, the Christian Law Centre, represented Legger.

After starting his job at Bishop Just Scof School in 2017, Reger had a continuous increase in the promotion of LGBTQI identities and other controversial ethical and political issues within so-called Christian schools.

Not only did the language lessons, but Reger also had to teach re (religious education), but he found that the material contained extreme content on themes and gender identity that began to suggest to children that humans can be born in the wrong body.

The material entitled “WHO AM I” included introducing children to gender identities such as Pansexual, Asexual, Intersex, Transgender in their seventh year (6th grade).

This lesson is designed to encourage “allyship.” This is a material called “non-cleaners who support and advocate for the queer community.”

One of the presentation slides was, “Equality is strength, diversity is our strength, and inclusion is necessary.”

The teacher was also forced to show films commissioned by an LGBT activist organization.

Furthermore, schools were even more wary of abortion and critical racial theories.

Peebed students punish educators

According to the CC, Legger said he discussed his concerns with his boss.

There was no other reliance on him, and “there is concern that students are taught only one story and their parents are kept in the dark,” Legger decided to present a Christian perspective. “In the discussion on LGBTQI issues in February 2022,” Leger told students. “I don't believe in transgender ideology, and I believe that Christians believe that sex other than marriage is a sin.”

The school fired Leger in May 2022 for illegal activities after one student complained about Leger's comments via his mother.

Additionally, the Aquinas Coffe Education Trust, which oversees the Bishop's Justus Coffe School, introduced Legger's case to TRA for possible discipline possibilities that could include losses in her educational license. Their reasoning:

She upset one student by sharing her opinions on LBGTQ+ and she continued to share more in our investigation and subsequent hearings.

Because one student was made to feel “between discomfort and trauma” by Leger's representation of Christian education, Leger's work, and potentially her career, as her mother testified to TRA. It's no wonder then that Legger said he felt “treated like a criminal.”

trial and error

TRA is said to have made various statements that being LGBTQ+ “is not fine”, God should come before becoming LGBTQ+, and that being LGBTQ+ “doesn't work” such as “if you're not LGBTQ+, I'll love you more if you're not LGBTQ+.” The agency was allowed to explain them in his testimony, but determined that Leger made most of his suspicious remarks. She also discovered that, as she maintained throughout the hearing, that God did not say that she would love non-LGBTQ+ people more.

Legger testified:

I am sure I am not showing no hatred or lack of love towards LGBT people.

True compassion and love is the ability to tell people the truth regardless of their sexuality. I didn't discriminate against anyone, but the school forced teachers to promote, teach and celebrate these issues, but I couldn't.

It is important for Christians to remain on God's side, not on his side, of things that violate God's laws and commandments. If students in Christian schools are forbidden to understand what Christian beliefs mean about these very serious issues, it is not “inclusive.”

TRA determined in December that Legger had committed “unacceptable professional behavior.” Considering other testimony – including that of the mother whose complaints started it all, she said she didn't want it to “earn” it before – the agency was recommended for revoking Leger's education license. However, the findings of the survey were placed in Leger's education records that could be reviewed by prospective employers.

Scarlet “C”

Legger said he was “relieved that education in the UK would not be banned.”

Just as I recorded “hate crimes” against my name, it is kept in the system to emphasize that there are Christian beliefs on these issues.

The message from TRA is that Christian teachers should not only remain silent about their beliefs, but also actively promote LGBT ideology, or risk of being severely punished or losing their careers.