Christian Student Punished by School for Wearing ‘Homosexuality Is a Sin’ T-Shirt Wins Settlement Payment

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A Christian student in Tennessee who was forced to change out of her T-shirt with the slogan “Homosexuality is a Sin” or leave the school grounds in 2020 won a settlement from the school district.

The settlement marked a victory in the ongoing battle to uphold the First Amendment in a country filled with woke liberals who want to shut it down.

The Christian Post reported Monday that in the settlement agreement reached in November, the Overton County Board of Education agreed to pay Brielle Penkoski, who has since graduated from the Livingston Academy public high school, $101 plus all attorney fees and other costs associated with the litigation.

Penkoski’s father, street preacher Rich Penkoski, said he felt vindicated by the settlement.

“A lot of people don’t understand this, but when it comes to civil rights lawsuits … there’s this perception that somehow we get paid lots of money for these things. Well, it’s not true. Most of the time, it’s a dollar,” he told the Post.

“But Brielle got $100, which is way, way more than we thought she was going to get anyway out of this,” he said.

“The other part of this is all the teachers, at least from 2020, were told to start taking First Amendment courses. It was one of the things that I insisted on, that I wanted them to take First Amendment training courses,” Penkoski said.

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