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Title: Another Crazy Fundamentalist Teacher! Post by: Howey on September 14, 2011, 05:18:31 pm After our own incident with Jerry Buell, I'm not surprised they're coming out of the woodwork. Thankfully, justice prevailed in this case (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/bradley-johnson-californi_n_962553.html), but how many years did this go unchecked?
It's interesting the Judge cited my own reasons why this teacher crossed the line of separation of church and state. How would a Muslim or atheist or gay student feel in this classroom plastered with huge God posters? Finally, can our deranged teachers just concentrate on giving children a quality education without pushing a fundamentalist (or otherwise) agenda down their throats? Quote A federal appeals court in California ruled Tuesday that a San Diego-area math teacher does not have the constitutional right to display banners referring to God in his classroom. Bradley Johnson, a 30-year-old math teacher for Poway Unified School District, had banners he believed celebrated "the religious heritage of America," according to the Los Angeles Times. Johnson had displayed the approximately 7-foot-by-2-foot banners -- one of which had the four phrases "In God We Trust," "One Nation Under God," "God Bless America," and "God Shed His Grace On Thee" -- in his classroom at another school for nearly 20 years. But when he came to Westview High School, Principal Dawn Kastner said the banners were "a promotion of a particular viewpoint" and ordered Johnson to take them down, the LA Times reports. The second banner stated, "All Men Are Created Equal, They Are Endowed By Their CREATOR," according to the Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm that filed the lawsuit on Johnson's behalf. Tuesday's ruling overturns a February decision by California Federal District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez that said the school districted violated Johnson's constitutional rights. Johnson argued that school officials discriminated against Christians by forcing him to remove the banners, noting that other teachers were allowed to hang Tibetan prayer flags or lyrics to a John Lennon song that references heaven, hell and religion, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The appeals court said Tuesday that Johnson's role as a state-employed math teacher was to do as his job title conveys, not to "use his public position as a pulpit from which to preach his own views on the role of God in our nation's history to the captive students in his mathematics classroom," Christian Science Monitor reports. Judge Richard Tallman of the appeals court wrote in the ruling that while Johnson can make his views known on the nation's religious history beyond the schoolyard, it is not appropriate for him to do so in the classroom. Title: Re: Another Crazy Fundamentalist Teacher! Post by: betteroffhere on September 14, 2011, 05:49:43 pm no...of course not...
can you become un-mo ? i doubt it...is there a way to manipulate you horomones and gentetic therapy that could switch you...maybe we are driven by our DNA...in association with products of our enviroment... they cannot change anymore than you... i find it wild that you still don't recognize that... can we re direct peoples thinking process and activities...yes but the whole time we will be battling against other DNA... that wants things to be completely different... there is no good and evil...there is a varitey of DNA strands that are the catalyst for what we have classified as good and bad... but i digress... Title: Re: Another Crazy Fundamentalist Teacher! Post by: Howey on September 14, 2011, 05:55:26 pm no...of course not... can you become un-mo ? i doubt it...is there a way to manipulate you horomones and gentetic therapy that could switch you...maybe we are driven by our DNA...in association with products of our enviroment... they cannot change anymore than you... i find it wild that you still don't recognize that... can we re direct peoples thinking process and activities...yes but the whole time we will be battling against other DNA... that wants things to be completely different... there is no good and evil...there is a varitey of DNA strands that are the catalyst for what we have classified as good and bad... but i digress... Unlike homosexuality, the practice of religion is a choice. Although often fueled by a certifiable psychiatric disorder. Title: Re: Another Crazy Fundamentalist Teacher! Post by: betteroffhere on September 14, 2011, 06:03:30 pm Unlike homosexuality, the practice of religion is a choice. Although often fueled by a certifiable psychiatric disorder. really... a choice huh... oh how... that was said at you once... lets remember for a moment................... are we done now....reflecting .... what were the people who said that to called by you when it was said ?...you said they were what ? i would argue that depending on which strand of DNA one has....it might not be a choice...ya feel me ? i would also argue that based on enviroment...one at times and places won't really have much of a choice ! rebuttal... Title: Re: Another Crazy Fundamentalist Teacher! Post by: Howey on September 14, 2011, 07:11:14 pm rebuttal... No need for a rebuttal. To compare homosexuality with religious preference is inane and not worthy of discussion. Take it to the muche. Title: Re: Another Crazy Fundamentalist Teacher! Post by: betteroffhere on September 14, 2011, 08:14:12 pm No need for a rebuttal. To compare homosexuality with religious preference is inane and not worthy of discussion. Take it to the muche. way to miss... and repeat what was said during various times of our history as a country... regarding choices...implied/assumed...or call it preferences... hahahaaaaaaa... no coversation at all...oh survivor is on ! yes lets dismiss this subject of deciding what is a choice... you wouldn't want to treat someone else as you have been treated over what they thought was a choice or preference...?...!!! Title: Re: Another Crazy Fundamentalist Teacher! Post by: ekg on September 15, 2011, 09:35:34 pm No need for a rebuttal. To compare homosexuality with religious preference is inane and not worthy of discussion. Take it to the muche. pretty much.. here's my question.. why didn't that guy just go teacher at a private 'christian' school if he believes so stringently? why cause the disruption? Title: Re: Another Crazy Fundamentalist Teacher! Post by: betteroffhere on September 15, 2011, 09:57:28 pm Dumbass...maybe
mental disorder...maybe as yet to be diagnosed... enviromental...his surroundings, maybe he grew up there ... the people moved out new peeps moved in... the enviroment changes and he doesn't... Title: Re: Another Crazy Fundamentalist Teacher! Post by: Howey on September 16, 2011, 08:13:20 am pretty much.. here's my question.. why didn't that guy just go teacher at a private 'christian' school if he believes so stringently? why cause the disruption? Because the kids at the private Christian schools aren't besmitten with the debbil! der! |