Believe it or not, a judge in California actually ruled that a teacher violated the First Amendment by calling creationism “superstitious nonsense”.
U.S. District Judge James Selna issued the ruling Friday after a 16-month legal battle between student Chad Farnan and his former teacher, James Corbett.
Farnan sued in U.S. District Court in 2007, alleging that Corbett violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment by making repeated comments in class that were hostile to Christian beliefs.
Apparently the teacher made 20 statements in a single day against Christian beliefs, and the student recorded every single one of them. But, during the course of the trial, most of the statements were ruled not against the First Amendment. However, the one statement where the teacher said creationism was “religious, superstitious nonsense” violated Chad Farnan’s rights. Here’s some of the other statements this teacher made:
When you put on your Jesus glasses, you can’t see the truth.
Conservatives don’t want women to avoid pregnancies — that’s interfering with God’s work.
When you pray for Divine intervention, you’re hoping that the spaghetti monster will help you get what you want.
These statements show just how ignorant this teacher really is, and it also shows his absolute hatred of Christianity. I’m glad the student won his case, and this should provide precedent for future cases of religious intolerance. As one of our founding fathers said:
Among the most inestimable of our blessings, also, is that… of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.
–Thomas Jefferson in reply to John Thomas et. al., 1807.
Source: Fox News
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