





A Utah substitute teacher was fired last week after she allegedly condemned the parents of a fifth-grade boy who told the class he was thankful for his two adoptive dads.

The incident occurred last Friday at the Deerfield Elementary School in Cedar Hills after the substitute asked students to share what they were thankful for this year.

“I’m thankful that I’m finally going to be adopted by my two dads,” the 11-year-old child shared with his classmates.







Students later said that the substitute snapped, going on a nearly 10-minute anti-homosexuality tirade, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

“Why on earth would you be happy about that?” the sub snapped at the student.

She reportedly lectured the 30 students in the class about her own views, how “homosexuality is wrong” and “two men living together is a sin.”

She looked at the boy, and told him: “That’s nothing to be thankful for.”

Three girls reportedly stood up for the boy and asked her to stop multiple times.

But she continued, so they walked out of the room to get the principal.

“As the substitute was escorted out of the building, she was still arguing, trying to make her point, the boy’s fathers say they were told by school officials,” reports the Tribune.

“She also tried to blame our son,” said one of the boy’s dads, Louis van Amstel, “and told him that it was his fault that she went off.”

The Tribune adds: “Van Amstel and his husband, Josh, said administrators called them immediately after it happened. At first, their son, who’s 11 years old, didn’t want to talk about it and didn’t want to get the substitute teacher in trouble. The school pieced the story together from multiple student accounts. And the incident is now under investigation.”





