In a divided viewpoint Thursday, the Virginia Supreme Court restored a previous high school instructor’s free-speech suit versus West Point School Board declaring he was wrongfully fired after he declined to resolve a transgender kid with he/him pronouns since of his faiths.
In thinking about Peter Vlaming’s claims that the school district breached his rights under the Virginia Constitution and Virginia law, the state high court concluded that King William County Circuit Court erred in discovering that the instructor stopped working to state lawfully feasible claims that his rights to liberty of speech and religious beliefs, along with his agreement with the school was broken, according to the bulk viewpoint composed by Judge D. Arthur Kelsey.