{"id":25998,"date":"2009-02-09T12:46:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T12:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/09\/texas-teacher-suspended-for-be\/"},"modified":"2009-02-09T12:46:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T12:46:04","slug":"texas-teacher-suspended-for-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/texas-teacher-suspended-for-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Teacher suspended for being &#8220;Liberal&#8221; and an &#8220;atheist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For the past few days I have been in contact with Mr. Richard Mullens a school teacher in Brookeland Tx. Brookeland Tx, is an incredibly &#8220;Conservative&#8221; area of Texas, and only 16 miles up the road from Jasper Tx. the scene of several incidents of racial violence and murder. Mullens has been the victim of a smear campaign and a slew of unethical practices, based solely on his religious and political beliefs. I have received numerous calls today from area parents, and concerned local residents who feel that Mr. Mullens is a good teacher, who has encouraged and inspired his students to think critically, and independently and is innocent of all charges, both spoken and written. In fact the administration of Brookeland High School made attempts to urge students to sign a list of alleged chargers against Mr. Mullens of which over 100 students out of 103 refused to sign&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so on and so forth.   This is rather incredible.  <a href=\"http:\/\/democracyforamerica.com\/blog_posts\/27752-texas-teacher-suspended-for-being-liberal-and-an-atheist\">Have a look at the details here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past few days I have been in contact with Mr. Richard Mullens a school teacher in Brookeland Tx. Brookeland Tx, is an incredibly &#8220;Conservative&#8221; area of Texas, and only 16 miles up the road from Jasper Tx. the scene of several incidents of racial violence and murder. Mullens has been the victim of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/09\/texas-teacher-suspended-for-be\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Teacher suspended for being &#8220;Liberal&#8221; and an &#8220;atheist&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Lk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}