Christian school forces teachers to sign contract swearing they’ll always be straight

Citipointe Christian College
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A Christian K-12 school is under fire for making teachers sign contracts committing to being straight.

At Brisbane, Australia’s Citipointe Christian College, a K-12 school, the employment contracts reportedly state teachers may only express sexuality “through heterosexual, monogamous relationships, expressed intimately through marriage” and says violating these terms could result in termination.

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The news comes only a few months after it was revealed that the same school asked parents to sign a statement of faith condemning homosexuality and comparing it to bestiality and pedophilia. The statement of faith also included a refusal to acknowledge students’ gender identities other than the sex they were assigned at birth.

The statements were withdrawn after massive outcry, and the principal, pastor Brian Mulheran, stepped down.

But the school is at it again. The employment contracts, obtained by The Guardian, were signed by the new acting principal, Ruth Gravestein, and were dated after the controversy over the statement of faith.

In addition to forbidding homosexuality, the employment contract also states…

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