SANTA ANA, Calif., March 11 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Southern California has ruled a lawsuit claiming a high school history teacher taught anti-Christian propaganda should go forward.
Chad Farnam, a Mission Viejo resident and sophomore at Capistrano Valley High School, filed the lawsuit in 1999. He claims James Corbett, who teaches Advanced Placement European History, violated the First Amendment by advocating "irreligion over religion," The Orange County Register reported.
U.S. District Judge James Selna rejected a motion by Corbett's attorney to dismiss the case.
The Farnam family is being backed by a conservative legal group, Advocates for Faith and Freedom.
Farnam says he began taping Corbett's classes as a form of note-taking. But he played his mother the tapes after hearing statements such as "Conservatives don't want women to avoid pregnancies -- that's interfering with God's work" and "When you put on your Jesus glasses, you can't see the truth."
