Wednesday, May 27, 2009

What if he had said this about Islam?

What if your teenage child came home from high school and said, "My history teacher said that when you put on your Jesus glasses, you can't see the truth"? What if the history teacher said, "Conservatives don't want women to avoid pregnancies — that's interfering with God's work"? Then he added that conservatives want women to stay barefoot, pregnant, in the kitchen, and have babies until their bodies collapse? What if he said, "When you pray for divine intervention, you're hoping that the spaghetti monster will help you get what you want." What if he said that religion "was invented when the first con man met the first fool"?

Those are only a few of the quotes made in the classroom by Californian James Corbett, an AP European History teacher at Capistrano Valley High School. They were recorded by one of his Christian students, Chad Farnan. Farnan brought suit against him for violating the First Amendment which prohibits the government from infringing on the free exercise of religion. Only one out of twenty of Corbett's comments was deemed by U.S. District Judge James Selna to fit that criteria -- the one where he called creationism "superstitious nonsense."

How do you think the ruling would have gone had he said, "When you put on your Imam glasses, you can't see the truth"? What about, "Muslims don't want women to avoid pregnancies -- they want them covered up, subjugated, and enslaved"? How about, "When you pray to Allah, you're hoping that the spaghetti monster will grant you seventy virgins"? What if he had said, "Islam was invented when Mohammed gathered a bunch of sycophantic idiots around him"?

You and I both know Mr. Corbett would no longer be teaching. But Christians are fair game in this country -- just about anything goes when it comes to denigrating us. By the way, the Capistrano Unified School District taxpayers, including the Christian ones, footed the bill for Corbett's defense.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518864,00.html

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