Moonbat Teacher Fired

Here’s a “peace activist” teacher using religion as an excuse to remove the American flag:

Stephen Kobasa has taught English in parochial schools for 25 years, always with a deep religious conviction and without an American flag in his classroom.

Kobasa was fired from his job at Kolbe Cathedral High School in Bridgeport Thursday, in the face of a new diocesan policy that he says he’s never seen in writing and hours after turning in his classroom flag to Principal Jo-Anne Jakab.

“I had come to the end of all the procedures of appeal available to me,” Kobasa, 57, said Friday. He said his deep-seated religious belief, not un-American sentiments, was at the core of his opposition to having the flag in the classroom.

“The crucifix cancels all flags,” said Kobasa, a longtime peace activist. “Christ speaks of compassion without boundaries. …Flags are about separation, assertions of superiority and aggression. The whole notion that loyalty to country is connected to one’s religious faith is totally bizarre and unjustified.”

[…]Kobasa is not sure who made the flag an issue. He said he had heard that a colleague complained about the lack of a flag in his classroom. The school year began with an announcement that the Pledge of Allegiance would be said by all classes at the beginning of the day.

“This posed a problem for me,” Kobasa said. “I offered a compromise.”

Kobasa agreed to display the flag at the start of the school day, for the duration of the pledge, “for any students who feel they require this expression of loyalty to the flag.” Then he would remove it.

“I felt I could keep my conscience intact and I wasn’t imposing my position on them,” Kobasa said. But his compromise was rejected by the diocese’s school superintendent and Jakab. Kobasa said he wrote to Bishop William E. Lori to emphasize that for him, the absence of the flag from his classroom was a matter of conscience, not whimsy. He received no response.

What a crock. “Require this expression”? MANY people have died fighting for this Country and the flag represents this Country, whether you like it or not.

This “teacher” has called President Reagan a criminal:

Taking their instructions from the movies that defined him all his life, commentators on Ronald Reagan’s death have agreed that “when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

Illusion was all that ever mattered to Reagan. He understood that one required useful lies when carrying out murderous policies; he was a smiling criminal, always. . . .

The fearful thing about Reagan’s popularity is that people largely knew the truth about him, yet celebrated his deceptions because they shared them. His racism, his hatred of labor, his homophobia, his spitefulness towards the poor, were perfectly mirrored in the society that elected him . . . .

This guy helped organize a rally to defeat President Bush’s 2004 campaign: (funny I should find the article posted on a anti-Isreali website)

NEW HAVEN – Speakers at a rally opposing U.S. policy in Iraq Saturday called on demonstrators to “get out in the streets” and work to convince people one-on-one not to vote for President Bush in November.

Between 80 and 100 people came to the New Haven Green for the initial stage of the rally, which was to be followed by a march through city neighborhoods.

In addition to decrying American policy in Iraq, the event was called to protest U.S. support of Israel in its conflict with Palestinians.

[…]Stephen Kobasa, who helped organize the rally and march, said turnout might have been low because the Bush administration has destroyed some Americans’ “sense of empowerment.” But Kobasa said those who showed up believe “their presence and outrage can make a difference.”

Plus he leads protests against nuclear weapons:

When reflecting on her imminent imprisonment during a recent interview, Martha Stewart declared that “good people go to jail,” offering Nelson Mandela, a man who was given a life sentence for his anti-apartheid leadership and who spent most of his 27 years of imprisonment in solitary confinement, as a case in point. Aside from her outrageous implication that she should be included in this category, her basic contention is indeed true: there are many good people imprisoned in this country, some of them for having acted morally.

When Stewart arrives at the federal prison camp in Alderson, West Virginia, to serve her five-month sentence, she will not have to look far for confirmation of this. Among the women there is Carol Gilbert, a Dominican nun who last year began her 33 months of imprisonment. Along with Sisters Ardeth Platte (sentenced to 41 months) and Jackie Hudson (30 months), Gilbert cut through the fence surrounding a Minuteman III missile silo in Colorado. The three then poured blood on the massive concrete lid that covered the nuclear warhead. This provoked charges of “sabotage” from the federal government, and the attendant excessive punishments. As Gilbert said at her sentencing, “We know something is very wrong with a system that can incarcerate us for years in prison for inspecting, exposing, and symbolically disarming America’s weapons of mass destruction.”

Perhaps Stewart will learn from Sister Carol that the “good life” she is anxious to return to at her New York estate will be lived under the threat of annihilation posed by the 49 Minuteman III sites in northeastern Colorado, 84 in southwestern Nebraska, and 17 in southeastern Wyoming. Perhaps she will ask why the willingness of any presidential candidate to authorize nuclear war is never questioned or subject to debate as part of the current election campaign. Perhaps she will be be moved by news of the Adopt-a-Missile Silo action by Citizen Weapon Inspection Teams in Colorado on October 2 to mark the second anniversary of the three nuns’ witness of conscience. And perhaps she will come to use her notoriety as an instrument for making public the injustice committed in their case. That might put her closer to that category of a good person in jail.

Just from the above you can understand that his refusal to display the flag was a bit more about his politics rather his religion.

What sickens me more is that this guy was teaching children, can you imagine the brainwashing he was doing to these kids?

Curt

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