It’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.
“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’s teacher licensing board has banned Christians from teaching in public schools] to be false,” wrote Minnesota TV station KARE 11’s Samantha Fischer in a Friday “fact check” responding, but not linking, to a Federalist article published Aug. 27.
Sure, Christians can teach in Minnesota public schools. All they have to do is publicly deny their faith. See? So obviously there’s no ban on Christians teaching in Minnesota!
Fischer seriously reasons that Minnesota hasn’t banned Christians from teaching because it hasn’t directly stated, “Christians may no longer teach in Minnesota public schools.” It has only required Minnesota public school teachers 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.
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, must “foster[] an environment that ensures student identities such as … gender identity, sexual orientation … are … affirmed, and incorporated.” In every classroom, teachers must “affirm” and “incorporate” every “gender identity” and “sexual orientation.” Period. Here’s a screenshot of
