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Buell lawyer: District believes teacher violated church-state provision
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| Contributor | MadViking |
| Last Edited | MadViking Aug 26, 2011 05:16pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Erica Rodriguez |
| Media | Newspaper - Orlando Sentinel |
| News Date | Friday, August 26, 2011 11:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Jerry Buell might not have violated a Lake County Schools ethics policy, but according to his lawyer the school district believes he violated the constitutional provision of separation of church and state.
"This is a brand new issue — a brand new controversy," said Harry Mihet, senior litigation counsel for the conservative Liberty Counsel who represents Buell. "We need the time to investigate the school's claim and the school's position to decide whether or not the school is on the correct Constitutional footing."
Buell was reinstated as a U.S. history teacher at Mount Dora High School following a week-long investigation into whether his anti-gay Facebook posts violated the district's ethics policy.
The district would not comment as to whether Buell violated any separation of church and state doctrine, but said it placed a "written directive" in his personnel file.
Mihet said the school district questioned statements on Buell's webpage and syllabus that expressed his belief in God.
On his school webpage, Buell wrote that he tries to "teach and lead my students as if Lake Co. Schools had hired Jesus Christ himself."
His syllabus also offered this warning to students: "I teach God's truth, I make very few compromises. If you believe you may have a problem with that, get your schedule changed, 'cause I ain't changing!" On a separate document, he also said the classroom was his "mission field." |
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