A California teacher has been told that he violated the Establishment Clause when he berated a student's religious beliefs.
Capistrano Unified School District history teacher James Corbett was sued by student Chad Farnan for calling his belief in Creationism "superstitious nonsense" and continually berating his religion in the classroom. Farnan even brought a tape recorder to class in order to document the tirades. Now a California federal district court has ruled that Corbett's statements violated the Establishment Clause. Robert Tyler is with Advocates for Faith and Freedom, which represented Farnan. "What we have done in this case is we have a ruling, the first ruling of its kind in the country, in that normally cases like this are brought against Christian teachers who share their faith in the classroom, who pray with a student, who do something that the left in this country would say, 'Wait a minute, you can't do that. That's a violation of separation of church and state,'" Tyler points out. Tyler says the Constitution actually protects religious people from hostility from the government, and this ruling enforces that concept. He believes this ruling will set a precedent for other cases involving students who are ridiculed for their faith by government-employed teachers.
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