CA Teacher Subject of Lawsuit for “Anti-Christian Comments”.
A teacher at Capistrano Valley High School is the defendant in a lawsuit alleging he has made numerous anti-Christian statements to students.
Chad Farnan, a sophomore at Capistrano Valley High School, claims his Advanced Placement European history teacher, James Corbett, made hostile remarks toward Christianity. The Christian student cites an incident from last December when Corbett stated that conservatives do not want women to avoid pregnancies because that interferes with God’s work. In another statement, recorded by Farnan, the teacher claimed that when people put on their “Jesus glasses,” they cannot see the truth.
Jennifer Monk is with Advocates for Faith and Freedom, which is representing Farnan. She agrees with the judge who denied the school’s motion to dismiss the case. “At stake really is a Christian student’s rights to go to public school and be able to express their faith and hold their faith without being discriminated against in the classroom,” she argues.
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“These are anti-Christian diatribes by this teacher pretty much almost every day in class,” says the attorney. In addition to the comments about “Jesus glasses,” says Monk, “he’s said things like ‘Aristotle argued that there has to be a god. Of course, that’s nonsense.’”
Here’s where we have the problematic issue and the seeming double standard. Christians want to speak their mind about what they see as the truth in class, but they don’t want opposing views presented to them–that’s always “persecution”. Funny how if they say gays or atheists are evil, that’s “the truth”, but if someone says Christianity is false or a fairy tale–that being something they truly believe–then that is considered anti-Christian persecution. Sorry, but you guys can’t have it both ways.
Now of course I support this lawsuit as I do the lawsuits of those who go to court over religious people preaching hatred in schools towards LGBT people or those of other religions. I just wanted to point this case out so maybe some believers might just understand where we’re coming from when we demand they stop pushing their anti-LGBT, anti-atheist, ant-Islam, anti-Jewish, etc. opinions on us. If we’re to be tolerant of you, you must offer the same courtesy to us.
