Wed Apr 26, 2023 – 4:02 pm EDT
BRYAN COUNTY, Georgia (LifeSiteNews) – A Georgia school district has come to a settlement with a substitute teacher it fired for taking issue with an LGBT children’s book, agreeing to reinstate Lindsey Barr and pay her $181,000 in legal fees and damages.
The Christian Post reports that last year, Barr reached out to McAllister Elementary School principal Heather Tucker to express concern about the inclusion of the book All Are Welcome, which features illustrated depictions of same-sex couples, in a school library read-aloud program. Barr’s children were students at that school, and she expressed her concerns as a parent. As a result, she was fired.
The religious liberty nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom agreed to take her case, suing Tucker, Bryan County Schools Human Resources Director Debi McNeal, and Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning Trey Robertson in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia for violating Barr’s freedoms of speech and religion and discriminating against her religious viewpoint.
“Defendants’ firing of Lindsey Barr was neither neutral nor generally applicable but was hostile and targeted directly at the content of her religious beliefs,” argued the suit.
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