Note: a typically unfettered gabfest and foodfight has broken out among commenters over at the OC Weekly. Check it out for laughs.5 Looks at the Appellate Victory for Capo Valley High Teacher James Corbett Through Jesus Glasses (OC Weekly/Navel Gazing)
[Here are] Five reactions to the ruling—which essentially states Corbett could not have known whether he was overstepping his bounds because no markers were set in previous rulings….Analysis: Court evades central question in anti-Christian lawsuit (OC Reg)
The First Amendment court case brought against Mission Viejo high school history teacher James Corbett is likely to die at the 9th Circuit, experts say.
...When the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena tossed out former Capistrano Valley High School student Chad Farnan's case on Friday, the three-member panel of judges did so without ruling whether Corbett's tape-recorded statements were impermissible under the First Amendment's establishment clause. The clause has been interpreted by U.S. courts to prohibit government workers from displaying religious hostility….James Corbett said...
[C]had’s lawyers argued that questioning “Creation Science” violated the First Amendment, but American law gives no special place to any religion. One person’s religion is another person’s superstition. To Jews, Muslims, Hindus and dozens of other religions, the New Testament is “Christian Superstition,” just as their views are superstition to Christians. When I referred to a religious belief as “superstition,” I sought to show respect for all by favoring none. My classes have Jews, Hindus, Bahai, Muslims, Buddhists, and others. Chad would demand a special place for his views, but in America, all beliefs should be treated equally by government.Jim Corbett, still hokey after all these years. Born with nothin and still got most of it.
Finally, here are two stanzas from Robert Service Poem (Reagan's favorite poet) that have been with me for 50 years--since my father read it to me when I was a teenager. At the time, he was fighting the blacklisters (and lost).
Carry On"
And so in the strife of the battle of life
It’s easy to fight when you’re winning;
It’s easy to slave, and starve and be brave,
When the dawn of success is beginning.
But the man who can meet despair and defeat
With a cheer, there’s the man of God’s choosing;
The man who can fight to Heaven’s own height
Is the man who can fight when he’s losing.
Carry on! Carry on!
Fight the good fight and true;
Believe in your mission, greet life with a cheer;
There’s big work to do, and that’s why you are here.
Carry on! Carry on!
Let the world be the better for you;
And at last when you die, let this be your cry!
—11:13 AM, August 23, 2011
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had’s lawyers argued that questioning “Creation Science” violated the First Amendment, but American law gives no special place to any religion. One person’s religion is another person’s superstition. To Jews, Muslims, Hindus and dozens of other religions, the New Testament is “Christian Superstition,” just as their views are superstition to Christians. When I referred to a religious belief as “superstition,” I sought to show respect for all by favoring none. My classes have Jews, Hindus, Bahai, Muslims, Buddhists, and others. Chad would demand a special place for his views, but in America, all beliefs should be treated equally by government.
Finally, here are two stanzas from Robert Service Poem (Reagan's favorite poet) that have been with me for 50 years--since my father read it to me when I was a teenager. At the time, he was fighting the blacklisters (and lost).
Carry On"
And so in the strife of the battle of life
It’s easy to fight when you’re winning;
It’s easy to slave, and starve and be brave,
When the dawn of success is beginning.
But the man who can meet despair and defeat
With a cheer, there’s the man of God’s choosing;
The man who can fight to Heaven’s own height
Is the man who can fight when he’s losing.
Carry on! Carry on!
Fight the good fight and true;
Believe in your mission, greet life with a cheer;
There’s big work to do, and that’s why you are here.
Carry on! Carry on!
Let the world be the better for you;
And at last when you die, let this be your cry!
Jim Corbett, still hokey after all these years. Born with nothin and still got most of it.
Good for Jim. Too bad for poor little Chad, having to listen to something he doesn't like.
Chad must be a BMOC over at Pepperdine, aka GOP U. Next stop: intern at the Heritage Foundation and then a law degree from Oral Roberts, a few years working for Michelle Bachman or Gary Miller or Tom Coburn, maybe assistant to Grover Norquist. Then, back home to run for local office or be appointed to a local community college district board on the pledge to defend us from government and, well, his former instructor, who made him what he is --- or isn't. Ain't life grand? Remember you read it here first: Farnan for Congress: Put on Your Jesus Glasses!
7:05, that would be ideal! You're upset because, if only you had the nards...
Besides 7:05, what would be your path to sucess? Perhaps getting caught doing something illegal, going to trial, getting convicted, writing a book about it, signing a reality show deal & ending up in an interview on the Letterman show?
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