Another loss for the ACLU waiting to happen
"A public high school in Virginia is being sued for removing prayer-themed posters from a Christian teacher's classroom wall while he was out sick for several days last fall.
"A poster promoting the National Day of Prayer and depicting George Washington praying at Valley Forge, and a picture of President George W. Bush praying were among the items school officials confiscated from Spanish teacher William Lee's classroom at Tabb High School in Yorktown. Even a small cross in a display about a former student was cut out with scissors and thrown away by the school while Lee was out."
Ok, maybe there were better ways to handle this. That stuff shouldn't have been there, but this was the wrong way to go about it.
"Lee had also put up posters of the Peruvian Inca sun god festival and Mayan creature gods -- things often discussed in his Spanish class. However, those religious items were not removed."
AT WHAT POINT DID PEOPLE NOT REALIZE THIS WAS STUPID?! This is why Christians think they're being attacked.
-pb
"A public high school in Virginia is being sued for removing prayer-themed posters from a Christian teacher's classroom wall while he was out sick for several days last fall.
"A poster promoting the National Day of Prayer and depicting George Washington praying at Valley Forge, and a picture of President George W. Bush praying were among the items school officials confiscated from Spanish teacher William Lee's classroom at Tabb High School in Yorktown. Even a small cross in a display about a former student was cut out with scissors and thrown away by the school while Lee was out."
Ok, maybe there were better ways to handle this. That stuff shouldn't have been there, but this was the wrong way to go about it.
"Lee had also put up posters of the Peruvian Inca sun god festival and Mayan creature gods -- things often discussed in his Spanish class. However, those religious items were not removed."
AT WHAT POINT DID PEOPLE NOT REALIZE THIS WAS STUPID?! This is why Christians think they're being attacked.
-pb
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I can see where these items may not be perceived as religion items. I highly doubt that he put them up intending on having students convert to ancient Incan religions, as opposed to putting up posters advocating Christianity, which he no doubt did intend on influencing children with.
However, I would have simply offered him the chance to take down the Christian propoganda and if he didn't I would have fired him.