Ethics

Update on Ohio's Latest Preaching Teacher

By Ed Brayton

The Columbus Dispatch has a story about a group of kids at the school in Mt. Vernon, Ohio carrying Bibles to school to support John Freshwater, a teacher who was told to remove the Ten Commandments from his door and take a Bible off his desk. As I said last week, the school is wrong about the Bible and ought to rescind that demand, while the demand to remove the Ten Commandments was legal and proper.

But the story reveals what was obvious to me all along, that there is a much larger issue here. This is a guy whose friend Dave Daubenmire said had been teaching creationism in his science class and that alone should land him in court before long. But it looks like things are even worse than that:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).