H.T. Drudge
A California teacher has been barred by his school from giving students documents from American history that refer to God -- including the Declaration of Independence.
Someone has "issues". Get out of sorts at the mention of God in print.
Steven Williams, a fifth-grade teacher at Stevens Creek School in the San Francisco Bay area suburb of Cupertino, sued for discrimination on Monday, claiming he had been singled out for censorship by principal Patricia Vidmar because he is a Christian.
Not neccessarily, the Principal has a "God" hang-up, and had to relieve her tension by lashing out at the nearest handy target...
"It's a fact of American history that our founders were religious men, and to hide this fact from young fifth-graders in the name of political correctness is outrageous and shameful," said Williams' attorney, Terry Thompson.
A fact lost on the drooling school principal
"Williams wants to teach his students the true history of our country," he said. "There is nothing in the Establishment Clause (of the U.S. Constitution) that prohibits a teacher from showing students the Declaration of Independence." Vidmar could not be reached for comment on the lawsuit, which was filed on Monday in U.S. District Court in San Jose and claims violations of Williams rights to free speech under the First Amendment.
In witness protection by the ACLU, and all loony toon associations in the Bay Area...
Phyllis Vogel, assistant superintendent for Cupertino Unified School District, said the lawsuit had been forwarded to a staff attorney. She declined to comment further.
Doesn't want to touch this with a ten foot pole.
Here's the eleven foot pole :
Cupertino School Board Phone number is 408-252-3000.
The Superintendant's name is William Bragg. He is Vogel's boss.
Williams asserts in the lawsuit that since May he has been required to submit all of his lesson plans and supplemental handouts to Vidmar for approval, and that the principal will not permit him to use any that contain references to God or Christianity.
...and "The Internationale" shall save the human race, at least everybody within spitting distance of "Frisco" (They hate to be called that)
Among the materials she has rejected, according to Williams, are excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, George Washington's journal, John Adams' diary, Samuel Adams' "The Rights of the Colonists" and William Penn's "The Frame of Government of Pennsylvania."
Only history, as it was taught in the former USSR is now allowed by the Totalitarians in Cupertino.
"He hands out a lot of material and perhaps 5 to 10 percent refers to God and Christianity because that's what the founders wrote," said Thompson, a lawyer for the Alliance Defense Fund, which advocates for religious freedom. "The principal seems to be systematically censoring material that refers to Christianity and it is pure discrimination."
Principal starts to breathe heavily at seeing the word God in print.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a California atheist who wanted the words "under God" struck from the Pledge of Allegiance as recited by school children. The appeals court in California had found that the phrase amounted to a violation of church and state separation.
Newdow will no daubt raise his ugly head again... He's getting all goose-bumpy at this one! |