Declaration of Independence Banned in School

Inside Bay Area:

A Cupertino public school teacher is suing his district and his principal, who banned him from using excerpts from the Declaration of Independence and other historical documents in his classroom because they contain references to god and Christianity.

Steven Williams, a fifth-grade teacher at Stevens Creek Elementary School in the Cupertino Union School District, filed the suit in U.S. District Court Monday, arguing a First Amendment right to teach the history of our country and its founding fathers, which includes religious, and specifically Christian, references.

The school's principal, Patricia Vidmar, while having specific problems with Christianity, the Declaration of Independence, and the writings of George Washington and John Adams, apparently has no similar concerns regarding Ramadan and Kwanzaa.

This is another example of absolutely bizarre anti-Christian leftism in California that makes me think that we would all be better off if the San Andreas Fault just opened up and allowed the coastal regions to slide into the briny darkness at the bottom of the Pacific. I know it's a black-hearted fantasy and apologize for it. However, I'm surely not the only person that thinks there's a paucity of adult supervision in the entire state . (I'd also throw in the infected coastal areas of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.) There have been reports that rational people and businesses are leaving in droves and, although the departures are primarily attributed to economic factors, it would be hard to dispute the contention that people also want to get away from the smelly political and cultural environment.

(Via Wizbang)