The Left has taken issue with second lady Karen Pence and her new part-time job teaching art at Immanuel Christian School in northern Virginia. The immediate, visceral reaction to this shows how much liberals misunderstand the tenants of a predominant faith in America and how willing they are to hijack even positive news in order to be outraged.
The school that hired Karen Pence requires applicants to disavow gay marriage, trans identity https://t.co/WIxxYKa0qN
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 16, 2019
The Washington Post pointed out that the school where Pence has resumed working (she worked there for 12 years while Mike Pence was in Congress) “requires potential employees to affirm certain religious beliefs that seek to exclude homosexual and transgender applicants, including that marriage can only be between a man and a woman.” This is certainly true.
HuffPost said the 2018 employment application “makes candidates sign a pledge not to engage in homosexual activity or violate the ‘unique roles of male and female'” and which outlines that the school believes “marriage unites one man and one woman.”
This is also true.
It’s very normal for private schools with a Judeo-Christian basis to also require their students and employees to abide by the same principles to which most Christians adhere. There is nothing wrong with this, and it’s fairly common — just like it would be common for fraternities to require members be male, for the Knights of Columbus to require their members to be Catholic, and so on.
Kara Brooks, a spokeswoman for Pence said, “It’s absurd that her decision to teach art to children at a Christian school, and the school’s religious beliefs, are under attack.”
To see members of the media immediately overreact to this benign announcement as if it’s criminal what Pence and the school are doing is a testament to either the lack of understanding of Judeo-Christian values, or knowledge that there’s nothing inherently (or legally) wrong with schools embracing certain core values and shunning others.
Nicole Russell (@russell_nm) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog. She is a journalist who previously worked in Republican politics in Minnesota.
