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In reply to the discussion: U.S. Supreme Court rejects appeal of Ohio teacher fired over religious materials in class [View all]former9thward
(32,259 posts)32. The OP is misleading.
He was not fired for teaching Creationism. There is nothing about that at the link. He was fired for insubordination for refusing to remove religious materials from his classroom. So it was not a "razor-close to theocracy" ruling in Ohio. As far as letting the ruling stand they simply refused to hear the case. The SC gets about 1000 cases a year. They only hear 50 cases. That means a lot of cases are discarded because they can't hear them all.
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects appeal of Ohio teacher fired over religious materials in class [View all]
n2doc
Oct 2014
OP
Actually, there was a Supreme Court case on the teaching of creationism in public schools
Fortinbras Armstrong
Oct 2014
#38
Fair enough, but the Supreme Court ruled decades ago FOR a woman's right to choose
calimary
Oct 2014
#39
As a representative of the State, he appeared to be violating the Establishment Clause
RufusTFirefly
Oct 2014
#31
Reading the actual news story I don't think the Establishement clause was part of it.
former9thward
Oct 2014
#33