{"id":2338609,"date":"2024-09-09T09:14:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T13:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/factchecker-falsely-claims-mnb-didnt-ban-christian-teachers\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T09:23:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T13:23:16","slug":"factchecker-falsely-claims-mnb-didnt-ban-christian-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/factchecker-falsely-claims-mnb-didnt-ban-christian-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Factchecker Falsely Claims MNB Didn&#8217;t Ban Christian Teachers"},"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\">16<\/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%2Ffactchecker-falsely-claims-mnb-didnt-ban-christian-teachers%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=2338609&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>The article discusses claims that a new Minnesota teacher licensing regulation effectively bans Christians from teaching \u200cin public schools. According to a fact check by \u200dKARE 11, these claims are deemed false since the regulations do not explicitly prohibit any religion, including Christianity. However, the \u2064new rules mandate that teachers\u200d must publicly affirm\u2063 and incorporate student identities related to gender\u2062 and sexual orientation in the classroom, which some argue conflicts with Christian beliefs. Consequently, the article posits that\u200c this requirement may render teaching untenable for many Christians, as they\u200c would be compelled to endorse views contrary \u2062to their faith.<\/p>\n<p>The author \u2062criticizes KARE 11&#8217;s fact-checker, Samantha Fischer, claiming \u2063her reasoning overlooks the implications of these regulations, which may also affect teachers of other faiths that \u200bhold similar views on gender and\u2063 sexuality, suggesting a broader issue of discrimination. The article asserts that these regulations, established by an unelected state body rather than through legislative processes, constitute \u200bbinding regulations rather than mere guidelines \u200cor laws, a distinction the article states is\u200c essential for clarity in this debate. The author also notes that the phrasing used by Fischer in her\u200b fact-check was \u200bmisleading, pointing \u2062out \u2064the need \u2062for more nuanced discussion about the true implications of the new teaching requirements in Minnesota.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not banning Christians from teaching in Minnesota to force all new teachers to repeatedly and publicly endorse what Christianity calls evil, claims a Minnesota factchecker.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Because the law does not contain any language banning teachers from practicing not only Christianity but any religion, KARE 11 found the claim [that Minnesota&rsquo;s teacher licensing board has banned Christians from teaching in public schools] to be false,&rdquo; wrote Minnesota TV station KARE 11&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/about-us\/team-bios\/samantha-fischer\/89-daef56fa-af5a-43e0-8923-d0affdda91f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Samantha Fischer<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/local\/verify-no-tim-walz-didnt-ban-minnesota-teachers-from-practicing-faith-religion\/89-4d1c4837-e665-4235-8ea1-0c7583b62952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a Friday &ldquo;fact check&rdquo;<\/a> responding, but not linking, to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/27\/under-tim-walz-minnesota-banned-christians-from-teaching-in-public-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a Federalist article published Aug. 27<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Christians can teach in Minnesota public schools. All they have to do is publicly deny their faith. See? So obviously there&rsquo;s no ban on Christians teaching in Minnesota! <\/p>\n<p>Fischer seriously reasons that Minnesota hasn&rsquo;t banned Christians from teaching because it hasn&rsquo;t<em> directly stated<\/em>, &ldquo;Christians may no longer teach in Minnesota public schools.&rdquo; It has only required Minnesota <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-orders-teachers-back-into-classrooms-union-vows-to-call-a-strike\/\" title=\"Chicago Mayor Orders Teachers Back Into Classrooms, Union Vows To Call A Strike\">public school teachers<\/a> to publicly confess and then regularly teach what their religion and basic observation of the natural world declares is false: that a man can become a woman. <\/p>\n<p>For that is what the regulations plainly and directly state. Starting July 2025, all people applying for a teaching license in Minnesota, a license required to teach in Minnesota public schools, <em>must<\/em> &ldquo;foster[] an environment that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minnesota-will-soon-make-teachers-endorse-child-mutilation-to-get-a-license\/\" title=\"Minnesota Will Soon Make Teachers Endorse Child Mutilation To Get A License\">ensures student identities<\/a> such as &hellip; gender identity, sexual orientation &hellip; are &hellip; affirmed, and incorporated.&rdquo; In every classroom, teachers must &ldquo;affirm&rdquo; and &ldquo;incorporate&rdquo; every &ldquo;gender identity&rdquo; and &ldquo;sexual orientation.&rdquo; Period. Here&rsquo;s a screenshot of the portion of the final regulation that stipulate this.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The regulations also specifically require teachers to demonstrate that they regularly give students materials promoting queer sex. No Christian can do that in good conscience. It would be a sin, and <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/esv\/matthew\/18.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to Matthew 18:6<\/a>, one so grave as to earn the offender something worse than death by drowning.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a screenshot of that portion of the regulations.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>These requirements are a ban on Christians teaching in public schools in the same way that requiring all public school teachers to regularly support eating pork would be a ban on Muslims teaching in public schools. It would also obviously be flatly unconstitutional compelled speech. One could also easily argue it expressed anti-religious bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, Minnesota&rsquo;s new regulations are <em>also <\/em>a ban on Muslims, Jews, and atheists teaching in public schools, given that many people of those faiths also recognize that people cannot have a gender identity other than their given sex. But one cannot fit every single fact into a headline, or the headline wouldn&rsquo;t be the headline, it would be the article.<\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s more, even Fischer could tell that banning people who can&rsquo;t pee standing up from teaching would ban (most?) women from teaching. You can bet if that were the requirement, she&rsquo;d be right out there calling the pee rule a &ldquo;Woman Teacher Ban&rdquo; and freaking out about it on whatever platform she could find.<\/p>\n<p>Remember how <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/06\/28\/heres-need-know-travel-ban-ruling-thats-not-drowning-hyperbole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a temporary pause<\/a> on visas from some countries, among which were majority-Muslim countries, was forever labeled a &ldquo;Muslim ban?&rdquo; Factcheckers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2017\/feb\/03\/donald-trumps-executive-order-muslim-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">didn&rsquo;t go to town<\/a> on that label, of course. But because these are icky Christians we&rsquo;re talking about, they get not even preschool-level attempts at connecting dot one and dot two.<\/p>\n<p>Alright, if we&rsquo;re going to play this stupid game, I&rsquo;ve got some nitpicky but legitimate factchecking for Fischer. While she was unable to prove anything The Federalist reported is factually incorrect, <em>her <\/em>&ldquo;fact check&rdquo; contains some false information. She describes the regulations imposing this religious test for public office with inaccurate language, in two different inaccurate ways.<\/p>\n<p>Once, in the line quoted above, she calls these regulations a &ldquo;law.&rdquo; They are not a law. A law is passed through a legislature and signed by the executive. That did not happen with these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-tim-walz-minnesota-banned-christian-teachers\/\" title=\"Under Tim Walz, Minnesota Banned Christian Teachers\">teacher licensing requirements<\/a>. They were created and passed by an unelected state bureaucracy, one appointed by the current candidate for vice president on the Democrat ticket, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.<\/p>\n<p>Another indication of this is these regulations&rsquo; approval by extraconstitutional &ldquo;administrative law&rdquo; judges rather than Article III constitutional courts. Sure, that&rsquo;s college-level political knowledge clearly far above the pay grade of most &ldquo;journalists,&rdquo; but even third graders can learn the old &ldquo;Schoolhouse Rock&rdquo;-level fact that proposals don&rsquo;t achieve the status of law without approval by both a legislature and executive.<\/p>\n<p>Four times, including in her subhead, Fischer also inaccurately describes these regulations as &ldquo;guidelines.&rdquo; (By the way, here she also contradicts her description of these regulations as a &ldquo;law,&rdquo; because a law is not a &ldquo;guideline.&rdquo;) She calls them &ldquo;new teaching licensure guidelines&rdquo; and &ldquo;updated guidelines for Minnesota teachers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>These are not &ldquo;guidelines.&rdquo; They are <em>regulations<\/em>. Guidelines can be disregarded at will. Regulations are binding. They are requirements. People caught not obeying them are punished in some fashion. <\/p>\n<p>One might expect that a professional writer, especially one who writes about government, could understand and communicate this important distinction, but alas. Professional communicators don&rsquo;t need to understand words anymore, just which political party&rsquo;s rear to lick. (And if you find that offensive, check your bigoted heterosexual instincts!)<\/p>\n<p>The teaching license regulations, which Fischer linked to and quoted, even <a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/pelsb\/assets\/Standards%20of%20Effective%20Practice%20-%2006.2023%20-%20Accessible_tcm1113-579957.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">describe themselves<\/a>, on the first page of text, as &ldquo;requirements!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Who is required to meet the Standards of Effective Practice?&rdquo; says the first page of text, an FAQ. It answers directly below: &ldquo;All teacher candidates completing an initial teacher licensure program in Minnesota and all teachers seeking an initial Tier 3 license via the licensure via portfolio process.&rdquo;  It goes on: &ldquo;Who is required to hold a teaching license in Minnesota? A teacher who provides instruction in a public school or charter school is required to hold a license aligned to the field and grade level taught.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a direct screenshot of that page.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>So, to recap: A man who wants to be a heartbeat away from ruler of the free world has banned members of the nation&rsquo;s largest religious group from working in the largest source of public employment, and one of the institutions that is supposed to be guarding basic American constitutional liberties is lying to cover it up. This is fine!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist. Her new book with Regnery is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/false-colors-the-flag-of-our-occupation-joy-pullmann\/20707173?ean=9781684515875\">False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America<\/a>.&#8221;  A happy wife and the mother of six children, her ebooks include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books For Young Children<\/a>,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/a2Jzp\">101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation<\/a>.&#8221;      An 18-year education and politics reporter, Joy has testified before nearly two dozen legislatures on education policy and appeared on major media including Tucker Carlson, CNN, Fox News, OANN, NewsMax, Ben Shapiro, and Dennis Prager. Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs who identifies as native American and gender natural.  Joy is also the cofounder of a high-performing Christian classical school and the author and coauthor of classical curricula.    Her traditionally published books also include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1486730068&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Minnesota fact-checker asserts that requiring all new teachers to publicly endorse what Christianity considers immoral does not equate to banning Christians from teaching in the state. KARE 11&#8217;s Samantha Fischer reported that since the law does not explicitly prohibit teachers from practicing any religion, including Christianity, the claim that Minnesota&#8217;s teacher licensing board has banned Christians from public schools is false. Essentially, while Christians can teach in Minnesota public schools, they must publicly renounce their faith. <\/p>\n<p>Fischer argues that there is no outright ban on Christian educators because the regulations do not state, &#8220;Christians may no longer teach in Minnesota public schools.&#8221; Instead, they mandate that teachers affirm and incorporate various gender identities and sexual orientations into their classrooms starting July 2025. This requirement compels teachers to promote ideas contrary to their religious beliefs\u2014such as the notion that a man can become a woman\u2014which many Christians cannot accept without compromising their conscience.<\/p>\n<p>The regulations also demand that educators provide materials supporting queer sexuality, which would conflict with Christian teachings. This situation effectively creates a barrier for Christians wishing to teach in public schools similar to how requiring support for eating pork would exclude Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, these new rules could also restrict Muslims, Jews, and atheists who share similar views on gender identity based on biological sex. While Fischer acknowledges this indirectly by discussing potential implications of such requirements for women (who may be unable to meet certain physical criteria), she fails to connect it directly back to broader implications for religious groups.<\/p>\n<p>Fischer\u2019s fact-checking contains inaccuracies; she refers incorrectly to these regulations as laws when they were established by an unelected bureaucracy rather than through legislative processes involving elected officials. Additionally, she mislabels them as &#8220;guidelines,&#8221; despite them being binding regulations with specific compliance requirements.<\/p>\n<p>In summary: A significant change in teacher licensing requirements threatens the ability of many individuals\u2014particularly those of faith\u2014to work within Minnesota&#8217;s public education system while adhering faithfully to their beliefs. Joy Pullmann highlights these issues and critiques both the regulatory framework and its portrayal by media outlets like KARE 11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":2338610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/5848413328_4e1aa7a66c_k.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[39385,35136,40447,40448],"class_list":["post-2338609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-christian-teachers","tag-education-policy","tag-factcheck","tag-mnb"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/5848413328_4e1aa7a66c_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338609","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\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2338610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}