How Dare He Mention the National Motto in Class!
School teacher lived in ignorance for 25 years

What's this country coming to? One American airport is using tax money to build a foot bath for Moslems, at the same time the liberals move every closer to outlawing Christianity.

Do you remember when you went to school and one of the things that was taught by immersion was patriotism, i.e., love of country? Do you remember saying the Pledge of Allegiance before class? In the younger grades, a different kid got to hold the flag each day. That kid always seemed to stand a little taller when his or her day came. When they still had time for music in class, one of the songs you learned was the National Anthem.

How times have changed.

Brad Johnson is a respected teacher. For 30 years has been teaching in the Poway (Calif.) Unified School District, near San Diego. For nearly 25 years, he has had banners in his classroom that contained the following phrases:
“In God We Trust,” the official motto of the United States;
“One Nation Under God,” the 1954 amendment to the Pledge of Allegiance; “God Bless America,” a patriotic song considered to be the unofficial national anthem of the United States;
“God Shed His Grace On Thee,” a line from “America the Beautiful,” a popular patriotic song; and
“All Men Are Created Equal, They Are Endowed By Their Creator,” an excerpt from the preamble to the Declaration of Independence.

After a quarter century of displaying the banners without complaint, school officials (no doubt products of the ‘60s “revolution”) objected to the educational banners because they included the words “God” and “Creator” and ordered him to remove them from his classroom walls because, according to the officials, the banners promote a “Judeo-Christian” viewpoint. (Gasp!!)

Catholic lawyers to the rescue!

The Thomas More Law Center, a national public interest law firm, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the school district. The lawsuit claims that school officials violated Johnson’s constitutional rights by imposing a viewpoint-based restriction on his speech. It further alleges this restriction “serves no valid educational purpose, is not reasonably related to any legitimate pedagogical concern, and conveys a government-sponsored message of disapproval of and hostility toward religion” in violation of the United States and California Constitutions. The lawsuit seeks to have the speech restriction overturned so that Johnson can continue to display his banners, as he had been for 25 years.