Teacher Fired For His Beliefs

[NVMojo]

In many ways, he's right. Since the Bush administration began perverting the American Flag, I have had a hard time responding to it in public displays ...pride had turned to shame for what our country has become, an imperialist invader of other sovereign nations.

October 15, 2005

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.

It was never an issue until this school year began.

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.

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