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A federal appeals court Tuesday rejected the claim of a San Diego-area mathematics teacher that his 1st Amendment rights were violated when the school’s principal ordered him to take down classroom banners that referred to God.
^^ Do you hate everyone who is religious?
Are they all scumbags?
Do you hate this man despite not knowing anything about him?
Sure teachers have a responsibility to be unbiased and not to enforce their viewpoint on on their students, but the message is harmless, it is more of a bible quote or motto rather than anything that would promote someone to be a christian.
People should be intelligent enough to be able to look at an ostentatious religious poster in a classroom and see it just as an affirmation of the person’s identity, rather than an attack on their own.
Similarly I wouldnt want a Christian to instantly abandon their faith just because they read an atheist’s quote.
posted on September 18, 2011You don't have permission to flag this entry.
It is an aggregation of references to a deist or christian god pulled from various public works, not a bible quote or a motto. As such, the aggregation displayed as his has displayed it, seems to me to be a cynical attempt to enforce a personal religious and political viewpoint on others in a public place. That is my personal opinion.
It is the stated opinion of the court, that being a governmental agency, the school acted properly in setting and enforcing rules for workplace speech.
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What possible reason would the teacher have to excerpt these particular quotes and place them on a seven-foot long banner in a compulsory school classroom other than to try to press a religious agenda? Any argument of personal expression is entirely falacious. The parties needing protection in this setting are the unwitting school children being forced to swallow this tripe. Even a god-fearing math bozo should understand 2 + 2 doesn’t equal 5 here.
posted on September 20, 2011You don't have permission to flag this entry.
To commentor #2…so, if a muslim teacher had put allah akbar or some other muslim “affirmation of his personal faith” up there for all to be forced to look at, would this be ok? What about a jewish teacher or a hindu teacher or a wican?? Any thoughts on this?
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First Amendment rights? Is he really that stupid, or was he trying to pull a fast one? You just have to love religious scumbags (of course, by “love” I mean “hate”).
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