Valor Christian coach says he was forced to resign because he is gay

The volleyball manager astatine Highlands Ranch’s Valor Christian High School said helium was pushed retired of his occupation past week aft employees recovered a societal media station indicating the manager was gay.

“I sat successful the country being grilled astir however being cheery is simply a ‘danger’ to the schoolhouse and to the kids,” Inoke Tonga’s Instagram post explaining the concern said. “That with maine ‘identifying arsenic a cheery man, they can’t enactment the kids astatine hazard by having maine successful beforehand of them.'”

Tonga said the field pastor and diversion manager called him successful for a gathering Thursday, during which they berated and belittled him implicit his intersexual predisposition and informed him that “parents wage excessively much” to person their kids coached by a cheery antheral and possibly Tonga wasn’t cheery since helium had a emotion for the children helium coached.

Toward the extremity of the conversation, first reported by Denver7, Tonga said schoolhouse officials told him helium had 2 options: denounce being a cheery antheral oregon permission the position.

“One of them adjacent said ‘I don’t privation to look similar I’m hanging a coaching presumption implicit your caput to ‘convert’ you, but we conscionable can’t person you successful beforehand of the kids if you place that way,'” Tonga wrote. “The different followed by saying ‘and we volition marque an email for you to nonstop retired and marque definite that it states that you are distant for idiosyncratic matters, truthful that mode erstwhile you marque your determination to judge God and our help, you tin travel backmost and they don’t person to cognize of your spiritual battle.'”

Valor Christian schoolhouse officials confirmed Monday greeting that they saw a Facebook station by Inoke that “suggested helium whitethorn not enactment Valor’s beliefs pertaining to sexuality and marriage.”

“As a Christian religion community, Valor requires its staff, module and unpaid leaders — those who correspond the Valor assemblage and usher the spiritual improvement of our students — to hold with Valor’s Christian beliefs acceptable distant successful our Statement of Belief and successful different policies, and to unrecorded successful accordance with specified beliefs,” according to a connection from Valor Christian Marketing Coordinator Nancy Columbia.

Valor Christian said that aft its treatment with Inoke, the manager told them helium does not enactment Valor’s beliefs and requested a separation from the school.

“Valor Christian High School embraces, loves and respects each students, families and different participants successful our community, careless of whether oregon not they hold with Valor’s beliefs,” Valor Christian’s connection said. “Although Coach Inoke has misrepresented galore aspects of this matter, Valor appreciates the contributions helium has made to the pupil athletes successful our volleyball program, and we privation him the precise champion successful his aboriginal endeavors.”

Tonga said helium is speaking retired arsenic a relation exemplary to his students.

“I talk retired due to the fact that I person taught my kids (yes these kids are MY KIDS) to clasp who they are, and larn to emotion themselves,” Tonga wrote connected societal media. “To instrumentality up for 1 different and to basal up against those who harm immoderate of their own. I talk retired for erstwhile successful my life, to amusement MY KIDS that I too, person to unrecorded up to the expectations I person acceptable distant for them.”

This is simply a processing communicative that volition beryllium updated.