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A Christian school in Vermont is suing state officials for barring the school and its students from participating in the state’s tuition program and sports league because of their biblical beliefs on sexuality and gender.Â
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a nonprofit religious rights law firm, is representing Mid Vermont Christian School and two families after Vermont’s Agency of Education and Vermont Principals’ Association allegedly discriminated against the school because it did not adopt the state’s view on sexuality and gender –”namely, that sex is mutable and biological differences do not matter”– as a condition to participate in the state’s tuition program and athletic association.
According to the ADF, requiring the faith-based school to adopt such a policy is a violation of the First Amendment rights of Mid Vermont Christian, its students and families, and other faith-based schools by preventing them from practicing their religious beliefs about sexuality and gender.
“The students who choose to attend Mid Vermont Christian are currently losing out on valuable tuition reimbursement and being excluded from playing competitive sports and participating in academic competitions, including the Goodwin and Slarve children, whom we represent in this case,” said ADF Legal Counsel Jake
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