SANTA ANA – A Mission Viejo high school history teacher violated the First Amendment by disparaging Christians during a classroom lecture, a federal judge ruled today.
James Corbett, a 20-year teacher at Capistrano Valley High School, referred to Creationism as “religious, superstitious nonsense” during a 2007 classroom lecture, denigrating his former Advanced Placement European history student, Chad Farnan.
The decision is the culmination of a 16-month legal battle between Corbett and Farnan – a conflict the judge said should remind teachers of their legal “boundaries” as public school employees.
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In a December 2007 lawsuit, Farnan, then a sophomore, accused Corbett of repeatedly promoting hostility toward Christians in class and advocating “irreligion over religion” in violation of the First Amendment’s establishment clause.
The establishment clause prohibits the government from making any law “respecting an establishment of religion” and has been interpreted by U.S. courts to also prohibit government employees from displaying religious hostility.
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Farnan’s lawsuit had cited more than 20 inflammatory statements attributed to Corbett, including “Conservatives don’t want women to avoid pregnancies – that’s interfering with God’s work” and “When you pray for divine intervention, you’re hoping that the spaghetti monster will help you get what you want.”
How very LGF 1.0ish of this teacher. Charles and the minions would be proud. Its acceptable in America to disparage Christians and only Christians. Other religions are off the table, its not ok to disparage American Indians and what they practice nor Buddhist, Atheists, Islam or anyone else.
Its amazing how liberal America takes pride in its bigotry and acts as if they are tolerant non-bigots. Its typical liberalism to disparage and hate everything an anything that is seen as American while showing great respect for anything that is not American.
But it’s the conservatives that are the “real haters”, at least that’s what the liberals proclaim.
This sounds amazingly like the hypocrite Charles Darwin Johnson, he calls everyone else a hater, while he is doing all the hating.
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