Kansas is now one of a near dozen states that will not force
their school districts to allow students to use restrooms of the gender with
which they identify.
The Kansas State Board of Education voted unanimously to
ignore the directive from the Obama Administration. Instead, they’re leaving the decision up to
the individual school districts.
The Obama Administration has threatened to withhold federal
aid from states that don’t comply. [To
understand the full scope of Obama’s transgender edict, read both my June 6th
& 8th blog posting.] That aid makes
up about 10% of the Kansas education budget.
Scott Gordon, general counsel for the state’s education
department, says he does not think the board’s statement will jeopardize
federal aid. He says the threat of loss
of federal funding is not sweeping, contending that the entire state would not
lose federal education funding if one school is found out of compliance with
the anti-discrimination law.
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced earlier this
month that the state will sue the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education,
which issued the bathroom decree. Schmidt
has not yet decided whether the state will join the lawsuit being filed by
Texas and 10 other states, or sue separately.
Thank God for those elected officials functioning in the
realm of common sense … and willing to stand strong against the bullying
tactics of this Administration.
Rev. Dr.
Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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