Christian Student of Psychology in Baha Mexico at risk of losing license over graduation speech that stood for life and family

Important Takeaways:

  • Christian student at risk of losing license to practice psychology after professors protest graduation speech
  • A university in Mexico has initiated proceedings against a recent psychology graduate after a group of professors expressed concerns over his graduation speech defending the family and the sanctity of life, which might cost him his license to practice.
  • The professors then issued a “manifesto,” calling his address “hate speech.” They demanded that his academic degree and professional license be withheld, his merit award withdrawn and psychology associations across Mexico be alerted regarding his actions.
  • Christian Cortez Pérez said “Today we are deep into a real anthropological struggle to redefine the human being, the human person, man, through the implementation of ideologies and fashions of thought that always end up undermining dignity and freedom.”
  • He then quoted English writer and lay theologian G.K. Chesterton: “People do not know what they are doing; because they do not know what they are undoing.” Pérez added that “to attack life and the family is to self-destruct, it is an attack on civilization itself.” He then urged his peers to live in solidarity with one another, saying, “You have to love; no one seeks the good of the other if he does not love him.”
  • Kristina Hjelkrem, ADF International’s legal counsel for Latin America, said “If the campaign to punish Christian is successful, it shows that anyone who dares to speak in public in Mexico is in danger”

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Michigan school punishes student for his beliefs

1 Peter 4:16 ESV Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.

Important Takeaways:

  • Christian Student Sues Michigan School District That Punished Him For Sharing His Beliefs
  • A Michigan high school student has filed a federal lawsuit against his school after he was suspended for three days for sharing his Christian beliefs with another student in a hallway at the school and in a private text conversation off school property.
  • School officials also…instructed the teen that he must stop posting his religious comments on all his social media platforms.
  • Stout’s complaint alleges the school overstepped the law in the following ways:
  • Violating his First Amendment constitutional rights to Free Speech and to the Free Exercise of Religion;
  • Violating his Michigan constitutional rights;
  • Creating policies that are unconstitutionally vague and unenforceable;
  • Exceeding the boundaries of the Matt Epling Safe School Law by attempting “to police or punish speech or expression that does not occur ‘at school.'”

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