In America, compelled speech is unconstitutional. This is especially true when the entity engaging in this blatant disregard for the First Amendment is a public school district. This is why former Argyle High School teacher Jordan Cernek was paid $20,000 to settle a lawsuit after refusing to use a student's preferred pronouns.

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, a Milwaukee-based law firm representing conservative interests, sued in federal court last year on behalf of Argyle High School teacher Jordan Cernek. The teacher said the district tried forcing him to betray his religious convictions in violation of the First Amendment and other laws.

Our founders believed religious protections were so crucial that they made it the First Amendment. However, the Argyle School District learned that the hard way.

Cernek said the issue began in 2022 when administrators made a policy change to be more inclusive of identities other than heterosexual males and females. His complaint said the district initially allowed Cernek to not use a transgender student's preferred pronouns on the grounds of religious objection, but changed its position two months later.

Cernek said he tried addressing students through gestures rather than names and pronouns. Eventually, he said the school sent a letter saying the workaround wasn't sufficient. The letter also warned him refusal to follow the policy would result in disciplinary action.

Again, you can’t do that in America.

About six months later, the district declined to renew Cernek's teaching contract.
"I had to go against my conscience and religious convictions in order to do what the school was saying," Cernek previously told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "I didn't want to take part in promoting lies to kids or anybody."

Not only was there a blatant disregard for his God-given rights but it’s a lie, as it’s almost always the case that the ones complaining about “preferred pronouns” identify with ones that go against their sex. So while the district believes the moral thing to do was “affirm” gender confusion, that decision cost them $20,000.

It’s unclear if the school district has revoked its policy to lie to students but hopefully, they don’t make the same mistake twice.

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