A federal judge has ruled that the Muslim parents of a high school student can not sue a school district because their daughter converted to Christianity after joining a Christian afterschool club.
Yosuf Chaudhry and Amena Alvi, who are Muslim, sued Community Unit School District 300 in 2020 after learning their then-teenage daughter converted to Christianity as a student at Jacobs. While at the school, their daughter, referred to in a complaint as “B.D.,” allegedly met with a teacher named Pierre Thorsen, who taught world history and world religions and also sponsored a student Christian group called Uprising.
Thorsen, a popular teacher who was named Educator of the Year for Kane County, Illinois in 2015, was also named in the complaint.
According to the lawsuit, Thorsen was very open about his faith. He taught apologetics at local churches and "allegedly promoted Christianity during Uprising meetings and criticized other religions." Uprising is the name of the school-sanctioned Christian afterschool group for which Thorsen was the faculty adviser.
Imagine the scandal of it all. A Christian teacher acting as faculty adviser of a Christian student group promoting Christianity and criticizing other religions. Further, imagine a Muslim girl who decided to go to the meetings of a Christian student group becoming Christian.
After the girl converted, Thorsen introduced her to members of his church. Some of those people told her that if her parents threw her out, they'd give her a place to stay.
Thorsen is being sued by the girl's parents, presumably for saving her soul, and he is suing the school district. He was transferred from his school after the Muslim parents complained and then coerced into resigning, in lieu of being fired.
To be clear, I'm 100 percent in Thorsen's corner on this. His actions were well within the permissible standards set by the Supreme Court. The young woman who correctly converted from Islam was not coerced. We can have different positions on where to draw the line on proselytizing, but when a teenager seeks out assistance in becoming a Christian, we put our own souls in jeopardy by refusing to help.
More importantly, none of this happened secretly. The afterschool club was authorized. Membership was open to all.
Compare and contrast this with how the transgender craze is handled in schools. Kids are encouraged to take on a different sexual identity. Parents aren't told about what is happening. Some teachers maintain a "transition locker" so delusional kids can live out a new sexual identity at school. New names and pronouns are encouraged, and the school system enforces the use of those. Some school districts have policies that forbid staff from informing parents of this nonsense. No one gets fired. No one is forced to resign. At least one federal appeals court has ruled that parents have no standing to make schools tell them if their child has been sucked into this life and soul-destroying fantasy.
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The fact that a teacher can lose their job for helping a young woman become Christian of her own volition--and at the same time, school systems can connive to convert kids to transgenderism and support that damaging ideology--shows just how far we've fallen culturally and as a nation.
