Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and President Joe Biden's administration are being accused of threatening government meals provided to low-income students attending Christian schools if the institutions do not adhere to radical ideological principles being peddled by the left. (RELATED: Chronically Ignored Public School Problem Deserves Your Attention)
According to a lawsuit filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of Faith Action Ministry Alliance and Grant Park Christian Academy, a school that serves low-income and minority families in Tampa, Florida, Biden officials are threatening to take away the meals unless the school adheres to new Title IX interpretations on gender ideology.
“That choice that they are giving us [is] either to comply with this ideology and alter the course of our operations and to violate our own core principles and beliefs, or lose out on the nutrition for the children, lose out on the meals,” Pastor Alfred Johnson, the founder of Faith Action Ministry Alliance, said in a Wednesday phone interview with The Daily Wire.
“This is not just pertaining to Grant Park Christian Academy,” Johnson added. “You're dealing with tens of thousands of students who are going to be impacted by this. Some of these schools are not even aware of how Title IX has been reinterpreted. And so many of them are going to be in violation, probably without even knowing about it.”
The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida against both the Biden administration and Fried, who is running for governor. Ironically, Fried claims to be dedicated to fighting hunger and food insecurity in the Sunshine State but remains poised to block Grant Park's funding for school meals.
“Under my administration, we will implement universal free school breakfast and lunch,” says Fried's gubernatorial campaign. “Kids can't concentrate on school work with empty bellies. This is an investment in the health and education of Florida's students.” (RELATED: DeSantis' Former Gubernatorial Opponent Charged With 21 Felonies)
The lawsuit also addresses the larger ramifications of the administration's coordinated effort with the agriculture commissioner's office to force schools into adhering to dangerous and confusing new Title IX rules.
“If Grant Park Christian Academy complies with the new school lunch mandate, it will suffer harm to its educational mission, free speech, and religious exercise,” the lawsuit says.
“It will no longer be able to maintain sex-separated restrooms for boys and girls based on their biological differences; to maintain sex-specific dress code and uniform policies, where, for example, only female students are permitted to wear skorts; to draw its workforce from among those who share and live out its religious convictions; and to refrain from using pronouns that do not correspond to biological sex,” the suit adds.
“In short,” the suit said, “the Biden Administration and Commissioner Fried's push to redefine sex in federal law has now reached the point where they will deny school lunches to underprivileged students, just because their school will not violate their religious beliefs.”
Grant Park Christian Academy has asked Fried's office for an exemption to the rule arguing the school should not be forced to violate its religious beliefs for an arbitrary rule. Fried's office has maintained the school must comply with the new Title IX rules or choose to forgo the lunch program.
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NAME THESE GODLESS DEMS. WE WILL ATTACK THEM IN RETURN. THEY ARE FILTHY TRAITORS. DOMESTIC ENEMIES
Oh, yeah! Do it! That will pretty much guarantee the demise of the Progressives in the mid-term, and probably in the ’24 elections as well. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of government-control phreaques.
Let’s go, Brandon! Remember in November; end the insanity.
So, America’s disaster in the white house is going to cut off money for school lunches if those schools don’t fall in line and preach the vile queer lifestyle that the left wing liberal democrats are trying to shove down everyone’s throat.Typical action by the democrats. We deserve everything bad that will happen to us if we don’t purge every democrat running for office this November and again in November 2024. They are trying very hard to destroy our republic and make us conform to their version of a socialists nation.
That sounds just like a Democrat. Then they say they are here to protect our children and now they could care less if the poor can’t afford to eat, because of their stupid rule. So, you would deny a child food unless they choose to act like it’s okay to accept gays and lesbians in their schools and even turn into one, they are not going to be able to eat? It has nothing to do with if they can afford to eat or not. If that is not like a dictator, I don’t know what it. I didn’t think we had people like Russia ruling our country. What happened to the home of the free? You people are sick, and I would feed the poor at school and tell you to stick it.
Bull it is our Christian duty to feed the poor.
Not steal from others to feed the poor. To bad our leadership wasn’t more like Russia as they are not bending to the will of sodomites!
Biden isn’t a Christian, much less Catholic. He should be ex-communicated and so should Nancy Pelosi.
AMEN!
Not sure about how Florida’s State Government works but I can’t imagine Desantis allowing this in ANY way! He’s gonna squash her at the polls and then squash her terrible progressive ideas.
For shame! To deprive these schoolchildren of their meals, to which they are legally entitled, in the name of indoctrinating them with this twisted ideology, is cruel and hateful. I will not rest knowing our State and Federal Government would spitefully allow little children to go hungry unless they bow to the corrupt demands of an elitist, godless government.
Especially if they need the food. The school lunch may be the only decent meal they get in a day and the Biden administration wants to take that away in order to appeal to a few degenerates.
Let the feds cut this subsidy for socialists and the Ag industry. Low income people get food stamps and other subsidies. Surely they can pack their kids lunch as families did long before the school lunch program was created.
The point is they shouldn’t have to. They are being descriminated against for their religious beliefs. I’m sorry but religious beliefs should supersede anything. It has been around longer than anything else They are trying to force private schools into indoctrinating since they are loosing their grip on so many kids leaving the public school system. Law suits, lawsuits, lawsuits hit them where they hurt and keep fighting them.
Better yet. Why are Christian schools taking government money!? Why are you asking gov permission to do anything. And don’t give me some lame Romans 13 B.S.! By taking their money you are complicit in their godlessness and will partake in their plagues
If you don’t think civil war is not only necessary, but unavoidable, your reality went on vacation and never came back.
Another reason we can’t trust politicians and the DOE with our children and education resources. Kill the DOE and send the money to States in proportion to their school age population. NO fudging.
When the government threatens school children being able to eat a relatively healthy meal if they don’t bow down to a couple of perverts the government needs to go away. There are only two sexes, male and female. Anyone who thinks differently has severe mental problems.
Another UGLY hag that oughta be FRIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
deSantis can take care of Fried.