Pennsylvania Department Of Education, Democrat Lawmaker Oppose Christian School Group Upholding Biological Sex

The Pennsylvania Department of Education voted Wednesday against allowing a Christian educational organization that upholds a Biblical worldview on human sexuality to become a state-approved school accrediting agency at a special committee meeting.

The Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), a Christian organization that provides accreditation to private Christian schools across the country, applied to become Pennsylvania’s fourth state approved accreditation body. Activists groups and members of the Pennsylvania state legislature have opposed the group due to their Biblical worldview on human sexuality, which includes opposing transgenderism, and sought to halt their application process, according to local reporting from Lancaster Online Newspaper.

Randall Wenger, legal counsel of ACSI, said during the meeting that ACSI was possibly “being targeted” by Pennsylvania lawmakers for their religious beliefs during the meeting’s public comment period.

Wenger described how the ACSI’s application with the Pennsylvania Department of Education had been moving forward, without issue, until he read a story in the local Lancaster Online Newspaper that the Department of Education had abruptly reversed their position.

“We read in the Lancaster newspaper, the State Department of Education reversed their position,” said Wenger.