COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a heated hour of arguments, Ohio Supreme Court justices sparred with lawyers Wednesday over the extent to which a public school science teacher had the right to push his personal religious beliefs in class.
A lawyer for the school board that dismissed John Freshwater in 2011 said he waved a Bible at his students, handed out religious pamphlets, and espoused creationism in his evolution lessons.
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As to the science class, thumping a bible is, to be kind, a deviation from the curriculum. Would there be a lawsuit if he were fired for trying to teach Italian in a Mathematics class? It doesn't matter if it was a cross or a chrysanthemum, deliberately burning a student is grounds for dismissal, prosecution, and imprisonment.