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Mid-Vermont Christian School should be free to practice its beliefs about biological sex GlobalStock/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Tuesday, December 5th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard. NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Up next, forcing compliance to LGBTQ ideas at the expense of religious liberty. And in that regard, a recent lawsuit in Vermont is worth watching. Here’s WORLD Opinions commentator Daniel Suhr. DANIEL SUHR, COMMENTATOR: Less than a decade after Justice Anthony Kennedy promised in Obergefell that people of faith could retain their convictions after the imposition of gay marriage, that promise is turning out to be empty—particularly in one state. The state of Vermont’s school sports league has decided to exclude Mid-Vermont Christian School from its competitions to force the school to include boys on girls’ sports teams. And Vermont’s education agency has denied Mid-Christian’s eligibility for a state scholarship program in order to force the school to hire LGBTQ persons as teachers. The legal team at the Alliance Defending Freedom is suing Vermont, arguing that the state’s policy violates the First Amendment, which promises faith-based institutions the […]