{"id":3604,"date":"2010-12-12T15:23:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T23:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3604"},"modified":"2010-12-12T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T23:23:20","slug":"republicans-sue-to-teach-hate-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/12\/republicans-sue-to-teach-hate-in-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Sue to Teach Hate in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans love to teach their hate-filled Theocon brand of pseudo-Christianity disguised as education.  They almost got away with doing just that, teaching hatred for Muslims, at a Lane Community College here in Oregon.  The school learned of their deception and pulled the plug.  Now Pat Robertson\u2019s legal group is suing the school.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"12LaneCC\"Barry Sommer was <\/font><\/font>supposed to teach<\/font><\/a><\/font> a non-credited class at Lane Community College in Oregon entitled "What is Islam?"<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

But that was before the Council on American-Islamic Relations <\/font><\/font>alerted them<\/font><\/a><\/font> to the fact that Sommer was the president of an Oregon chapter of the anti-Islam group "ACT! for America,"<\/strong> started by Brigitte Gabriel to save  <\/span>[hate group delinked] Western Civilization from the "authoritarian values of radical Islam, such as the celebration of death, terror and tyranny" and that he had a history of making anti-Islam statements<\/strong>.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

So Lane College <\/font><\/font>dropped the class<\/font><\/a>, for which not even one student had signed up<\/strong>, and Sommer was out the $160 he would have been paid for teaching it … and so, of course, Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice <\/font>has taken up the case<\/font><\/a><\/font> is the threatening to sue Lane College if it doesn’t let Sommer teach this course: <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) said today it is demanding that an Oregon community college rehire a teacher fired after the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) complained about a class he was scheduled to teach about the religion of Islam. The ACLJ, which represents the instructor, contends that Lane Community College (LCC) in Eugene, Oregon violated the contractual and constitutional rights of the teacher by firing him and canceling the class because of pressure from CAIR.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Right Wing Watch<\/a>><\/p>\n

By misrepresenting the character  and content of the course to the college, this Republican hatemonger voided the contract himself.  He has no constitutional right to teach religious propaganda at a state funded school.  While a religious survey course is legal, one that pushes a single religious point of view violates the establishment clause.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republicans love to teach their hate-filled Theocon brand of pseudo-Christianity disguised as education.  They almost got away with doing just that, teaching hatred for Muslims, at a Lane Community College here in Oregon.  The school learned of their deception and pulled the plug.  Now Pat Robertson\u2019s legal group is suing the school. Barry Sommer was […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}