I was taught that God made us all in his image and to treat others as you would be treated. I still believe that.

This man began teaching in 2003, and was asked to sign a morality clause each year. His husband died in 2023, and at the end of the 2024-2025 school year, a disgruntled parent searched his name on the internet and found him listed as a surviving spouse.

It’s heartbreaking enough to imagine losing a partner after 22 years (they met in 2001), but to add to that the insult of being fired in the name of “morality,” after spending 22 years working in a school community that he describes as having felt like his own family, is simply appalling.

There has always been unnecessary evil and suffering in the world. It’s a story as old as time unfortunately. However, when I look around my country right now, it feels like I’m watching so much evil being committed in the name of Jesus, as though this is the message that he wanted people to remember and spread when he made the ultimate sacrifice.

The reality is that this teacher is only one person, with one story of injustice and hypocrisy being carried out in Jesus’ name. He is one person in a country with countless other stories happening every day.

You don’t have to look very hard to see the evidence of families being torn apart, terrified children screaming for their parents as they’re separated by unidentified masked strangers, and the people responsible for this (who are making a fortune with these policies btw) claiming that this is what is best for the country. That what they are doing is steering America back towards “Christian” values.

There isn’t much I can do or say when I see evil happening in other parts of the world, where children are being killed and starved in the name of religion. It’s painfully frustrating, but it’s also a fact of reality.

What’s even more frustrating though, is that I’ve learned there also isn’t much I can do even when I see evil happening in my own backyard.

However, I can make a choice to not be silent about it, especially when I see Christ being removed from what is being called “Christianity.” The religion I was born into, which in many ways is part of my own cultural identity, is being exploited and used in name only, to weaponize evil. I won’t just shut up about it and pretend it’s not happening.

My voice is all I have, and I will use it to defend Christianity against blasphemy, at least for as long as it’s allowed in a country that allegedly so highly values free speech and liberty.

What is happening in America right now is wrong. An evil chapter of history being written in front of us, whether you want to see it or not, and things will only be getting worse.

Choosing to stay silent while its being written in your own backyard, is your choice. You don’t need to defend that choice to me, but don’t forget that one day you will have to explain yourself, and defend it to someone much more important.