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School’s move against a hateful T-shirt infuriates Christian blowhard

School’s move against a hateful T-shirt infuriates Christian blowhard

Last updated on: September 11, 2020 at 8:28 pm by Barry Duke

School’s move against a hateful T-shirt infuriates Christian blowhard 2020-09-11T20:28:53+02:00 Barry Duke

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TENNESSEE’S Rev Rich Penkoski is a Grade A pain in the arse. He is pictured above railing against a birth control leaflet he claims was given to his son at school last year.

Now he’s reportedly making suing noises over the fact that the Livingston Academy told his daughter Brielle to change her T-shirt that proclaimed “homosexuality is a sin.” When she refused, she was sent home.

Penkoski, who regularly bangs on about things like homosexuality and Drag Queen Story Hour events, runs an organisation called Warriors for Christ, which describes itself as a “pre-denominational ministry” that has a global online presence.

In an e-mail to The Christian Post, the fleshy foghorn said that Livingston Academy principal Richard Melton claimed his daughter’s shirt was prohibited because its message featured “sexual connotation.”

Responding to that explanation, Penkoski noted that one of his daughter’s teachers has an LGBT pride sticker displayed in his classroom featuring the rainbow colours associated with the LGBT movement. The sticker features words:

Diverse, Inclusive, Accepting, Welcoming Safe Space For Everyone.

According to Penkoski, the principal did not have any issue with the pro-LGBT display, and accused the school of “double standards” when it comes to political speech.

He claims his daughter wanted to make a statement with the shirt.

She wanted to go there to … express her values like all the other kids do. They’ve got kids walking around with the pride symbol on their sneakers and pride clothing and nobody bats an eye. She was basically censored.

Penkoski argues that teachers:

Are pushing Joe Biden … [and] pushing the rainbow stuff. But if a Christian comes up there and repeats what the Bible says, they are seen as intolerant, they are seen as hateful. Simply saying ‘homosexuality is a sin’ is not hate speech. That’s what the Bible says. And we need to start preaching truthfully.

He believes that what happened to his daughter in “a little town in Tennessee that nobody’s ever heard of” is indicative of the culture at schools around the country.

Walker and a young cohort protesting last years against Tennessee legislation that allowed people to buy booze on Sundays. Image via YouTube.

Pastor Dale Walker, above right, President of the Tennessee Pastors Network, agrees with Penkoski and said that what happened to his daughter was:

An indication of what is happening in our school systems. They’re trying to drive the indoctrination down the throats of the students. They want the students to cower down and not be able to wear a shirt that has a Bible verse on it. They can fly your rainbow flags but then you have a Christian student who wants to express her deeply held beliefs and she is unable to.

Our elected officials have to return the power of the schools back to the people. If not, the indoctrination will continue and it will get markedly worse.

Walker believes that reforming American education begins with allowing the people of Tennessee to “elect our school superintendent” and “elect a school director.”

We need a conservative director of education in our state. I don’t think we have a conservative director of education.

Penkoski’s dissatisfaction with public education is not limited to Livingston, Tennessee, CP points out.

Two years ago, he expressed outrage after his daughter received a homework assignment asking her to practice writing the Islamic declaration of faith in Arabic calligraphy. At the time, his daughter was attending middle school in Gerrardstown, West Virginia.

Earlier in that particular school year, Penkoski’s daughter was allegedly shown a music video featuring two male students sleeping together and a close-up of a sex toy.

Late last year, after Penkoski and his family moved to Sullivan County, Tennessee, he said that his 7-year-old son brought home a flyer promoting a clinic that would provide access to “free birth control and pre-pregnancy services.”

This is a movement,” Penkoski proclaimed.

They’re trying to recruit kids, they’re trying to indoctrinate kids with liberal ideology, promoting sex and sexuality to kids.

And hopefully, also teaching them that they shouldn’t yield to gluttony.

Here’s a song for you, Rich Penkoski:

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