{"id":1869607,"date":"2023-03-06T18:26:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T23:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-christian-university-pledges-action-after-lgbtq-activist-school-board-strikes-down-partnership\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T18:34:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T23:34:04","slug":"arizona-christian-university-pledges-action-after-lgbtq-activist-school-board-strikes-down-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-christian-university-pledges-action-after-lgbtq-activist-school-board-strikes-down-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Christian University pledges action after LGBTQ Activist School Board strikes down partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farizona-christian-university-pledges-action-after-lgbtq-activist-school-board-strikes-down-partnership%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1869607&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo by OLIVIERTOURON\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN Deven Berryhill<br \/>UPDATED 3:00 PM PT \u2013 Monday, March 6, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Christian University President Len Munsil\u00a0fired back at the Washington Elementary School Board for their decision to end an 11-year contact calling it &#8220;wrong&#8221; And &#8220;unlawful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;The school board&#8217;s recent decision to ban ACU students from serving as student teachers was done for one reason only: our university&#8217;s commitment to our Christian convictions,&#8221; In a Monday statement, President Munsil stated that he was addressing The Christian Post. &#8220;That&#8217;s wrong, it&#8217;s unlawful, and it will only hurt the district&#8217;s students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tamillia Valenzuela from Arizona was a school board member who argued in front of the district council last week that ACU should not renew her 11-year-old-long contract to hire teachers.\u00a0The renewal could cause negative consequences for the district council, she said. &#8220;herself and the other two board members who are a part of the LGBTQ community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Valenzuela claimed on camera that her feelings were shared by the other. &#8220;queer kids&#8221; Her district would be: &#8220;personal danger&#8221; If they were ACU alumni.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/localimages\/twitter-minimal.jpg640676a17daa5.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Arizona School Board votes to end hiring Christian University teachers. It claims that its views about marriage render people uninsurable. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b4WzfKSXTg\">pic.twitter.com\/b4WzfKSXTg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Crisis in the Classroom (@CITClassroom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CITClassroom\/status\/1632384216934789120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>ACU President Munsil claimed that ACU never faced any issues with Arizona&#8217;s student teachers or the Arizona school system. He stated that over 100 ACU alumni have been appointed to full-time teaching jobs during this 11-year-old partnership. <\/p>\n<p>Munsil noted that ACU graduates have been sought by many Arizona administrators to teach and manage in Washington Elementary School District.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;The American Council is committed to pour financial resources into the Washington Elementary School District School Board Race in 2024 to elect competent, balanced, and family-centered leaders who focus on education and not politics,&#8221; Tanner DiBella is president and chair of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancouncil.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theamericancouncil.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Council<\/a> In a tweet &#8220;Religious liberty and freedom of conscience are bedrock American principles. We are exploring our options to defend the rights of our students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/localimages\/twitter-minimal.jpg640676a17daa5.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A school employee stated that they wouldn&#8217;t hire Arizona Christian University teachers because of the potential for proselytizing. Yes\u2026 it would surround kids with educators who value love, kindness, goodness, morality, integrity, and peace. <\/p>\n<p>The American Council is\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0BC1JsCy3x\">https:\/\/t.co\/0BC1JsCy3x<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UCOKXJ11pw\">pic.twitter.com\/UCOKXJ11pw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tanner DiBella (@tannerdibella) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tannerdibella\/status\/1632239219916836864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ACU application requires that students provide written testimony. A written testimony from each potential student is required to show that they have lived a Christian lifestyle easily recognized by others. Candidates should belong to a regular church aligned with Orthodox Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ACU website, &#8220;[The] goal of Arizona Christian University is to cultivate the spiritual life of each student and to prepare each student for Christian service; therefore, it is required that applicants have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nikkie Waley, President of Washington School Board stated last week at a board meeting that some members have expressed opposition to the school board&#8217;s renewal of its partnership with ACU.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;For me, this is not a concern about Christianity, there are plenty of Christian denominations who are LGBTQ friendly. So, I want to make it clear that, for me, my pause is not that they&#8217;re Christian so much as this particular institution&#8217;s strong anti-LGBTQ stance, and their strong belief that you believe this to your core, and you take it out into the world,&#8221; The board&#8217;s president stated this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gomez-Whaley stated that ACU student teachers cannot separate Christian beliefs from professional obligations. &#8220;unable to treat students equally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to some reports, President Munsil has spoken to Councils about the unrenewed teacher contract.  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>&#8220;Religious liberty and freedom of conscience are bedrock American principles. We are exploring our options to defend the rights of our students,&#8221; President Munsil.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/newsroom\/arizona-christian-university-pledges-action-after-lgbtq-activist-school-board-strikes-down-partnership\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=arizona-christian-university-pledges-action-after-lgbtq-activist-school-board-strikes-down-partnership\">Arizona Christian University pledges action after LGBTQ Activist School Board strikes down partnership<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by OLIVIERTOURON\/AFP via Getty Images OAN Deven BerryhillUPDATED 3:00 PM PT \u2013 Monday, March 6, 2023 Arizona Christian University President Len Munsil\u00a0fired back at the Washington Elementary School Board for their decision to end an 11-year contact calling it &#8220;wrong&#8221; And &#8220;unlawful.&#8221; &#8220;The school board&#8217;s recent decision to ban ACU students from serving as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1889831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[4625,5327,4472,3664,4592,5331,9342,5136,3924,7283,4861],"class_list":["post-1869607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann","tag-action","tag-activist","tag-arizona","tag-board","tag-christian","tag-lgbtq","tag-partnership","tag-pledges","tag-school","tag-strikes","tag-university"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}