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OC Teacher Christian Bashing Case Rallies Protestors
It can’t be made anymore clearer than in his own comments. Capistrano Valley High School history teacher James Corbett hates all things conservative and Christian.
Teacher’s comments recorded by student:
How do you get the peasants to oppose something that is in their best interest? Religion. You have to have something that is irrational to counter that rational approach. When you put on your Jesus glasses, you can’t see the truth.
Conservatives don’t want women to avoid pregnancies. That’s interfering with God’s work. You’ve got to stay pregnant, barefoot and in the kitchen and have babies until your body collapses.
And that’s the news. That’s not O’Reilly and Hannity. Those people are just liars.
This from the OC Register:
MISSION VIEJO – To an almost continuous stream of blaring car horns and cheering, more than 200 Capistrano Valley High School students and alumni rallied outside their school this morning to show support for embattled history teacher James Corbett, who is being sued by one of his students for making remarks about Christianity and traditional Christian viewpoints in class.
Under the early-morning drizzle, the protesters lined both sides of Via Escolar outside the Mission Viejo high school, holding up handmade posters with messages that read “Honk 4 Corbett,” “Keep Corbett” and “Alums for Corbett.”
Corbett was the target of a lawsuit filed last week by sophomore Chad Farnan, who alleged that the 19-year Capistrano Valley High history teacher made anti-religion remarks in his advanced placement European history class this semester…
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TheBigRuski
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at 03:19 on December 20th, 2007
TheBigRuski, good stuff and an important topic to discuss.
If the teacher had made the same types of comments about Islam, or the Jewish faith, would they have been tolerated? If the teacher had made comments about "black culture" like "children grow up in crime because the men won't take responsibility for their families", would they have been tolerated?
No, and they should not have been.
The teacher is there to teach history, not to offer his personal views/AKA in this case, propaganda. He can offer differing points of view through actual historical occurrences in a factual way.
He'll probably say this is a freedom of speech issue. No, it isn't. It's an issue of professionalism, and not using the classroom to attack a belief system with which he personally disagrees.
at 22:27 on December 20th, 2007
I saw this story the other night on the O'Reilly Factor and was disgusted. Is he really serious when he says that "religion is used to keep down the peasants"? If anything is used to keep down the peasants it is government programs that give away goodies to the "peasants". That would be the purview of liberal politics, if I'm not mistaken.
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lol wut (not verified)at 00:27 on October 25th, 2008
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the FREEDOM OF SPEECH, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
in b4 THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION