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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsFreshwater Sues Mt. Vernon for Religious Discrimination
By Ed Brayton
Christian uber-nut John Freshwater has filed a religious discrimination suit against the Mt. Vernon schools for firing him. This line from the local paper's report cracks me up:
The suit claims that Freshwater was discriminated against because of personal religious beliefs and maintains the board took action to terminate Freshwater's teaching contract simply because he kept a Bible on his desk.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).
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