SBC Pastor Fired From Public Library Job For Not Using Colleague’s ‘Personal Pronouns’
A Louisiana pastor, Luke Ash, was fired from his job at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library for refusing to use a colleague’s preferred pronouns.
Ash, the bivocational lead pastor of Stevendale Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, told Tony Perkins he was dismissed for misgendering a coworker at the library, where he worked as a technician for around six months.
Last Monday, July the 7th, I was in a conversation with a coworker about someone that she was training and I did not use preferred pronouns in that conversation. That coworker corrected me, said that the person that she was training preferred to be called “he” and I refused to use those preferred pronouns.
The next day I was reprimanded by my supervisor and the head of reference. Thursday morning I was fired.”
He was offered the chance to keep his job if he used the requested pronouns, but refused, stating, “I’m not going to lie. I cannot do it. I will not do it.”
It is unclear whether or not Ash will pursue any litigation.
Note: A previous version of this post was titled SBC Pastor Fired For Not Using Colleague’s ‘Personal Pronouns’, which may have been read to imply that Ash was fired from an SBC church or position. Apologies for the confusion.
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Note that this is not even a matter of being hateful or disrespectful to someone. He was not “misgendering” the person to the person in question. He was doing it in a conversation with someone else. That’s how crazy this is.
I work for a state government, so we have a lot of this. Thankfully, we still have a third option. If they tell me that Mr. Smith prefers Ms. Smith, I can simply say “Smith” and not get into trouble…which is pretty much how we refer to everyone. This third hand offense stuff just makes this all the more insane.
AD, I know you didn’t mean to phrase it how you did, and make the implication first made. But to clarify for you here a bit, for the sake of others reading, it wouldn’t be hateful or disrespectful to speak the truth right to the person’s face. As Jesus did. As the Apostles did. The truth is the most loving thing to say, especially to someone who is on the path to eternal damnation …
Love does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth … 1 Cor. 13
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The truth is often offensive. It hurts feelings. But it is never disrespectful or hateful.
It is out of love for them, respect for the fact the their Creator loves them, and respect for their worth and value to him subsequently, that the truth is spoken … It can be the most loving and respectful thing to say, even when feelings will be hurt, and offense will be taken …
True respect is to look at others and see someone who God created and loves. Without respect for Him first, we can’t truly respect others.
There’s no respect in looking at others and seeing nothing but a random, meaningless, miserable clump of cells. If we don’t honor that first greatest commandment, love the lord our God, we cannot possibly honor the second, love thy neighbor. It’s entirely and completely dependent on, and inseparable from, the first greatest commandment.
1 John 5:2-3
Its out of respect for them and their value and worth to the one who created them, that we speak the truth. And whether or not they see it that way is irrelevant. We’re also not going to refer to them as any sort of meaningless clump of random biological accident
go to hell
We cannot approve or affirm the sinful condition in which we all are born. We can’t undermine the gospel, or convey a false gospel. So we’ve got to be careful. But to recognize that they are the sex that their Creator created them to be is to recognize that they were created, and that the were created by a Creator who loves them, as He loves all, and that they are not any sort of meaningless, miserable, worthless, random accident the result of lightening accidentally striking a mud puddle the result of the random and meaningless explosion of a meaningless spec of dust …
And it is because of that love their Creator has for them, that He calls them to repentance …
So offending feelings is not the same as hate or disrespect. In this case, it’s completely the opposite. They are defiantly rejecting the love their Creator has for them. As a rebellious child defiantly rejects the correction of a loving parent.
Like a deceived mother who asks her child if she can have permission to give the child a bath. What happens when you teach that nonsense to a child?
What happens when a predator approaches the child and obtain’s the child’s permission to abuse the child?
Now you’ve got to figure out how the parent must seek permission from the child, but nobody else has to … what’s the parent goign to say, “I’m the only one who can ask you permission” ??? Well that means nobody else can.
It’s the Deceiver trying to get the parent’s permission, by getting the parent to rebel against our ultimate Father who loves us. It’s the parent who’s defiantly telling the Father of all that He does not have their permission to do what is most loving for them, or most loving for their child.
The same principle applies to those who demand that everybody else lie to them …
To further clarify, that means nobody else can ask, so nobody else has to ask … nobody else has to obtain child’s agreement or permission. Essentially teaching the child that the parent is the only one the child can say NO to …
What you teach a child is to always ask your permission. That’s what protects the child. Just as we are all protected by always asking the permission of our Protector in Heaven. You teach your child that only you can tell the child what to do, and that the child must obey. And you teach by example, in your obedience to the Lord.
I had to read this a few times before I realized that the pastor was fired from a library, not the church.