The Florida Conference Office of Education recently issued a non-discriminatory Statement to all education faculty, and placed the statement in the footer of every page in their website. This statement was voted by the Florida Conference Executive Committee,
Murray Cooper
Sep 16, 2019Florida Conference Seventh-day Adventist schools welcome students of any race, color ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation, and promote a sharp focus on learning and caring while requiring all students to adhere to behavioral expectations set out in a strict code of conduct supported by the Biblical beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Our schools do not discriminate on the basis of any of the aforementioned categories in decisions for admission, discipline, or application of education policies.
This was voted by [Florida] ADCOM.
“Gender identity” is how you feel inside and how you display your ‘gender’ through clothing, behavior, and personal appearance.
What this Statement means is that a sixth-grade boy who feels that he might be a girl is welcome to export his gender confusion to your children and grandchildren in a Florida Seventh-day Adventist classroom. A third-grade girl who identifies as a horse could be saddling up to your kids.
The Florida Conference should be standing up to this kind of confused nonsense on the basis that they are a Christian school, instead of welcoming it into the Adventist community. Help confused people resolve their gender confusion, yes, but don’t welcome moral confusion into the apple bushel under the guise of being non-discriminatory. A person’s feelings are an unreliable guide to truth.
That’s all we have to say about that!
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“Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry” (Colossians 3:5).