Father Dan on January 22nd, 2004
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Concord Monitor: A seventh-grade social studies teacher in Presque Isle who said he was barred from teaching about non-Christian civilizations has sued his school district for allegedly violating his First Amendment right of free expression. Gary Cole of Washburn, a teacher at Skyway Middle School, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court against School Administrative District 1.

Cole alleged that complaints by “a small group of fundamentalist Christian individuals” led to the creation of a curriculum “which never mentions religions other than Christianity and never teaches the history of civilizations other than Christian civilizations.”

“He can’t even teach the history of anti-Semitism (or the) history of ancient Greece,” Cole’s lawyer, A.J. Greif of Bangor, said Tuesday.

“How can you explain the evolution of democracy in the Western world without talking about ancient Greece? He can’t talk about all the influences of the Indian, Japanese or Chinese cultures.” [What Do You Think? Comment on this Post!]

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