Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal from Ohio teacher fired for teaching Creationism in public school classroom

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

On Monday, the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of an Ohio science teacher who was fired for teaching creationism instead of evolution, Americans United for Separation of Church and State announced. 

John Freshwater taught eighth-grade science at Mount Vernon Middle School until 2011, when the Board of Education removed him after it was revealed that he decorated his science classroom with Bible verses, attacked the theory of evolution, and gave extra credit for attending creationist films. 

In 2008, he allegedly used a high-voltage Tesla coil to burn a cross into a student’s arm. 

Freshwater sued the school district shortly after his firing, claiming that it had violated his First Amendment rights. The lawsuit was dismissed, but Freshwater appealed all the way to the Ohio Supreme Court, which upheld the firing. 

In its decision, the majority wrote that “we recognize that this case is driven by a far more powerful debate over the teaching of creationism and intelligent design alongside evolution, [but] here, we need not decide whether Freshwater acted with a permissible or impermissible intent because we hold that he was insubordinate, and his termination can be justified on that basis alone.” 

The Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case means that the lower court’s decision will stand.

Damn the Supreme Court is on a roll this week.

First refusing to accept petitions challenging the constitutionality of same sex marriage, and now supporting the decision to fire this "teacher" for teaching superstitious nonsense to his students.

Is it possible that the Supreme Court suddenly got reasonable, or are they lulling us into a false sense of security before making terrible decisions on abortion and Obamacare?

I don't trust them, they look shifty.

Especially those two in the front row left side.