Matthew’s lonely fight to keep religion out of his class

A strange case of a history teacher proselytizing in class recently shocked a New York suburb.
Matthew LaClair, 17, recorded his professor saying that only Christians would have a place in heaven.
After a long battle, the case was settled on May 9 2007. the.point.is. reports about the ongoing battle for the separation of church and state in US public schools.

Kearny. The young man in loafers is sipping his tea. Sitting on an old chair by the window, he starts speaking quietly about the event that changed his life. In the fall of 2006, Matthew LaClair (picture by Jarin Blaschke), a 17-year-old junior at Kearny High School, recorded his history teacher, making religious comments in class. “He was preaching and telling us that the Bible is Word of God, Matthew LaClair says. He also warned us that if we reject God’s salvation we will end up in hell. I felt I had to do something about it”. After he warned the Kearny Board of Education, Matthew was bullied by some of his classmates and even received a death threat on his myspace site.

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