California Teacher Loses Fight to Keep 'God'

[MrsSmith]

The Ninth Circus, again

Court: California Teacher Loses Fight to Keep 'God' Banners in Classroom

Published September 14, 2011

| FoxNews.com

A school district in California did not violate the First Amendment rights of a high school calculus teacher when he was ordered to remove banners in his classroom that referred to God, a federal appeals court has ruled.

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Johnson has long displayed large banners in his classroom in Rancho Penasquitos that read: "In God We Trust,'' "One Nation Under God,'' and "All Men Are Created Equal, They Are Endowed By Their Creator.''

In its decision, the appeals court cited previous U.S. Supreme Court cases when it ruled that the school district has the right to limit speech of public employees in the workplace and acted lawfully when it told Johnson to remove the banners.

"Just as the Constitution would not protect Johnson were he to decide that he no longer wished to teach math at all, preferring to discuss Shakespeare rather than Newton, it does not permit him to speak as freely at work in his role as teacher about his views on God, our nation's history, or God's role in our nation's history as he might on a sidewalk, in a park, at his dinner table, or in countless other locations," wrote Judge Richard Tallman.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/14/court-california-teacher-must-remove-god-banners/#ixzz1XyFM2A4G

Well, we know the schools have done all they can to remove offfending materials like the Constitution and Declaration of Independence...I can only assume they've avoided hypocrisy by also refusing to take any MONEY with the offensive phrase.   


 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

So does the 9th circuit get paid in hemp bundles?

[true_blood]

Liberalism is a mental disorder and that is a fact.
They are also trying to stop the Pledge of Allegiance in Brookline, MA.

[MrsSmith]

Maybe we should give them the benefit of the doubt...being the 9th Circuit, after all, they probably have no clue these phrases came from founding documents, not the Bible.