Poway School Board Continues Fight to Ban Teacher's "God&quot

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Poway School Board Continues Fight to Ban Teacher's "God" Banners

by Staff

March 30, 2010

ANN ARBOR, MI, (christiansunite.com) - Late last week, attorneys for the Poway Unified School District in San Diego, California, filed their appeal of Federal District Court Judge Benitez's ruling that held school officials violated teacher Bradley Johnson's constitutional rights when they ordered him to remove two patriotic banners from the walls of his classroom because they referred to "God." The appeal will be heard by a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Johnson, a highly respected math teacher in the Poway school district, had the banners displayed on his classroom walls for over 20 years. In 2007, school officials ordered him to take them down, claiming the banners expressed an impermissible Judeo-Christian viewpoint and may be offensive to a Muslim student.

The patriotic banners included the phrases, "In God We Trust, " "One Nation Under God, " and "God Bless America."

In a clear case of a double standard, school officials, however, saw no problem with non-Christian or anti-religious displays by other teachers. The school district left untouched displays that included a 40-foot string of Tibetan prayer flags with images of Buddha; a poster with the lyrics from John Lennon's anti-religion song "Imagine, " which begins, Imagine there's no Heaven; a poster with Hindu leader Mahatma Gandhi's "7 Social Sins;" a poster of Muslim leader Malcolm X, and a poster of Buddhist leader Dali Lama.

On February 26, 2010, Federal District Judge Roger T. Benitez, in a strongly worded decision, ruled the school district violated Brad Johnson's constitutional rights when it ordered him to take down his classroom banners:

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