John Freshwater is sued for living out his Christianity

Righting 1st Amendment Wrongs

We have been following the John Freshwater story since it burst on the scene earlier this spring. Click here to read all articles about Mr. Freshwater.

Here are some of the details of the case filed against Mr. Freshwater in Federal District Court last week.

Case Number: 2:2008CV00575

Case: Doe et al v. Mount Vernon City School District Board Of Education et al

Plaintiff: John Doe, Jane Doe;

Defendant: Mount Vernon City School District Board Of Education, Stephen Short, William White, John Freshwater

Filed: June 13, 2008

Court: Ohio Southern District Court

Nature of Suit: Civil Rights – Other Civil Rights

Cause: 42: 1983 Civil Rights Act

(Mount Vernon, Ohio) A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed in the Ohio Southern District Federal Court on Friday, June 13th (apropos) by a local family on behalf their middle school son. The legal action alleges civil rights violations by the Mount Vernon City School District Board of Education, superintendent Stephen Short, middle school principal William White and science teacher John Freshwater.

Read more in the Mount Vernon News, the local newspaper which had an extensive article on the lawsuit.

The most galling aspect of the lawsuit, as I read a reference to it in the Mount Vernon News, was the following sentence.

Freshwater’s action and the administration’s inaction, the lawsuit states, “have the purpose and effect of endorsing religion over non-religion and Christianity over other religious beliefs, thus violating the neutrality portion of the Establishment Clause.”

I could not believe what I was reading so I looked up again the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reads:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech . . .

What in the world is the neutrality portion of the Establishment Clause? Is it the word “no”? I do see where CONGRESS shall not make any laws establishing or sanctioning a particular denomination (like the Baptists or the Presbyterians or the Methodists) as a state religion, but it baffles me as to what basis the family’s attorney’s (probably back by the wildly un-American ACLU attorneys) make that very false allegation. I guess anyone can file a suit for anything. This is a frivolous lawsuit in my eyes. It is only meant to intimidate School Boards, Principals and Teacher to obey the creed and precepts of the Secular Humanist Man-is-god religion.

Those tyrannical perverts of justice, activist judges, have twisted and manipulated the simple and clear words of the constitution to mean something that the founders never intended it to mean.

Simply, the framers of our constitution and our founders wanted to prohibit the United States Congress from making any law that would sanction a particular denomination as was done England with the Church of England, which in essence was a state church. The first clause of the First Amendment, the establishment cause, dealt with that congressional prohibition. It was never intended, as it is applied today to purge God and all godly and Christian influence from our schools and our society.

The free expression clause was intended to protect the rights of the individual to express his faith or beliefs anywhere and at anytime. And what about John Freshwater's right to freedom of speech? Must he give that up when he becomes employed in the government-Secular Humanist dominated school?

Essentially the first clause (establishment clause) of the First Amendment has been twisted to mean something it was never meant. The second clause (free exercise clause) and third clause (freedom of speech) are put aside and virtually ignored.

A misinterpretation of the U.S. Constitution is now being used to strip Christians from their freedoms instead of protecting them as originally intended. In other words, it is now being used to silence Christians like John Freshwater. It is now being used to intimidate School Boards, Superintendents, Principals and Teachers into succumbing or conforming to the devilish doctrine of the ACLU and the high priests and priestesses of the Secular-Humanistic religion instead of standing on traditional values and principle.

I would like to see a counter suit filed using this as a test case and once and for all return sense to the constitution and defeat the misnomer that Christianity is anathema in education and in American society.

TAKE ACTION

Please seriously consider supporting Mr. Freshwater with a check for his legal expenses as he tries to defend himself. He dared to live by his Judeo-Christians principles, and that apparently offended someone. Too bad, the leftists need to just get over it. There is a lot that offends me, but I don't go around suing people every time I'm offended.

Maybe this could just be the case that sets a precedent, that turns things around as far as the leftist tilt of our nation. We are, unfortunately, tilting to the brink of extinction.

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